Discovered Authors 2010

May I add the following peer
Of poetry great and small?
Tho I read but little rhyme
'Twas enjoyed in all its thrall

Of Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Do I speak, with his maritime Rime
Of sea and spirit and sailor
Didst he write and I did find the time!

And so I beg to members here
E'en though you may not read
The poets great of times gone by
You give their names some heed

And if you know of poems alike
The one which I descrie
Wouldst that thou inform me here
So that then I might them try!
 
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AE35Unit said:
Soon to add Charles Stross with his 2010 Hugo winning novella Palimpsest, which readers can temporarily download for free from his blog. Also Peter Watts's novellete The Island, an author I'd not even heard of!
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No longer - it was only available until the voting was finished and has now been removed :(
 
Started reading Brandon Sanderson's The Final Empire (Mistborn part 1) last night and havbe to say it's very very good!

Just finished reading Fiona McIntosh's Quickening Trilogy which was good but not adult enough for me. Should have read this in my late teens and I would have enjoyed it far more. However, M<istborn seems right up my street!
 
Devil's Advocate said:
Joe Abercrombie - terrific
Brandon Sanderson - very good

And I haven't discovered him, yet, because I've never managed to find the books, but I will soon discover... George R. R. Martin.

That's right.
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Looks like my prediction might not come true. I've yet to come around to start A Song of Ice and Fire. And I still have Steven Erikson, Scott Lynch, David Farland and Patrick Rothfuss to go. *sigh*. 2011, maybe?

One author I read this year was China Mièville. Went through The Scar a couple of months ago, and walked away fairly disappointed. I do have Perdido Street Station; let's see when I get around to that one...
 
I don't know if I can remember all the new authors this year but i will try

Neil Gaiman
Gail Z Martin Very simple, most YA but i found myself getting into them
Peter V Brett really enjoyed both books
Ken Scholes good debut
Robert Scott and Jay Gordon Lesseks key, refreshing portal fantasy
Robert Sawyer
 
Ilona Andrews - solid supernatural fantasy. Not as addictive as Dresden Files, but one of the best I tried.

John Scalzi - Old Man's War. I'm getting the definite Heinlein vibe off his books. The opening line is cool. Not sure I'm going to continue with the rest of the books though.
 
Lots of short fiction from:

Dale Bailey
Lavie Tidhar
Kij Johnson
Will McIntosh
 
Homer
Dante Aligheri
John Milton
Cervantes
Francais Rabelias
Gustave Flaubert
Nikolaj Gogol
Karen Blixen
Stig Dagerman
Tomas Tranström
Clark Ashton Smith


Poems i read several of them of course. Epic verse is fascinating.
 
Connavar said:
Homer
Dante Aligheri
John Milton
Cervantes
Francais Rabelias
Gustave Flaubert
Nikolaj Gogol
Karen Blixen
Stig Dagerman
Tomas Tranström
Clark Ashton Smith
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Heck! That's an outstanding list of new discoveries. You must have had an excellent year for reading then Conn....:)

Stig Dagerman is the only one who I don't know and therefore have nothing of?
 
GOLLUM said:
Heck! That's an outstanding list of new discoveries. You must have had an excellent year for reading then Conn....:)

Stig Dagerman is the only one who I don't know and therefore have nothing of?
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Well i dont go literary class only to learn but also to read for my own pleasure great lit. Most of those i plan to read more in the near future.

Stig Dagerman is important modernistic writer in Swedish lit. A swedish Camus since he is mostly about philosohpy in his writing. He worshipped Kafka,was influened by The Trial like many others.
 
Neil Gaiman
Gail Z Martin
Peter V Brett
Ken Scholes
Robert Scott and Jay Gordon
Robert Sawyer

New addons

KA Stewart
Paul Hoffman
 
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - my very first foray into Sherlock Holmes...not bad
Eric Nylund - not a strong first impression, not at all
Philip Jose Farmer - a very strong first impression hehe...looking forward to the rest of his Riverworld series
A.S. Byatt - could've been better, but some of her stories were indeed exquisite
Serge Brussolo - his 'Mangeurs du murailles' was fantastic, I really wish I read more of his this year
Jack McDevitt - 'Seeker', fantastic Sci-Fi mystery story...can only look forward to more
P.G. Wodehouse - after years of hearing of Jeeves, finally met the real stories...loved them
Stephenie Meyer - temporary lapse in judgment
George R.R. Martin - the man can really write weird stories
Herbert W. Franke - I really don't know if I'll read more of this
Neil Gaiman - finally saw what my girlfriend sees in him
Stefan Zeletin - great writer, scathing sociological critiques
Bogdan Gheorghiu - he's young, he'll learn...until then...
Ken Grimwood - fans of 'Groundhog day' should really read his 'Replay' book
Neagu Djuvara - again, social critique from a great Romanian historian
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky - finally met the brothers
Haruki Murakami - needs patience
Steven Brust - gery good first impression
Robert Sheckley - impulse buy...I don't regret it.
Dmitry Glukhovsky - one of my favorite finds for the year
Richard Matheson - 'I am legend' was so good

 Isaac Asimov - exceeded my expectations

 Ion Minulescu - I had no expectations of all...was pleasantly surprised, sorta
John Christopher - and here's why a reading group is a good idea

 Chris Wooding - fantastic writer, and 'Tales of the Ketty Jay' is a fantastic series up and coming
Fritz Leiber - still making up my mind

 Licia Troisi - hate her work

 J.M.G. Le Clezio - I had expected more
 
Okay, the new authors I have discovered this year (in reverse order that I read them, with my first impressions):

Robert Aickman (discovering right now)
Oliver Onions ****
Daniel Keyes *****
Walter Stone Tevis *****
Sergei Lukyanenko ****
Koji Suzuki ***
Jorge Luis Borges ****
Alfred Bester ****
George R. Stewart ****
Steven Brust ***
Jeff VanderMeer ****
Graham Joyce ***
Arthur Machen ****
Dan Simmons ****
Gwyneth Jones **
Robert W. Chambers ****
Ambrose Bierce ***
Alastair Reynolds ****
Angela Carter ***
Jim Butcher ***
John Christopher *****
Jack Finney ****
Richard K. Morgan ***
Italo Calvino ****
Janny Wurts **
Orsen Scott Card ****
H. G. Wells ***
Ramsey Campbell ****
J.M. McDermott *****

I have discovered many other authors this year in anthologies and here are the notable names:

Stephen Baxter
Ian Whates
Warren Hammond
Ian Watson
Keith Roberts
Kim Stanley Robinson
Chris Roberson
Pierre Gévart
 
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