Could really use a list of NEW science fiction authors and books

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Immortality

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I have read most of the golden age of science fiction, with authors like Arthur C. Clarke , Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Philip K. Dick, etc. but I’m ready to move on to the science fiction of today. Can anyone name any sci-fi authors or sci-fi books ( fiction or short fiction collections I enjoy too) that are new?

I have heard of a few like Adrian Tchaikovsky, Liu Cixin, qntm ( I love his short stories ) , but that’s about it. So you would all really be helping me out with this. If possible please provide me with as many 21st century science fiction authors and good science fiction books. I ran a google search , but I didn’t really come across much. It’s much better I’m asking you guys and gals.

Thanks so much
 
Awesome! Thanks so much. I hope many more people can come up with more 21st century modern science fiction authors and books, I want to create a large list to read from. I love science fiction! It allows me to 1) live in that world that the science fiction authors create for me and 2) it predicts for me what the future might be like, which is exciting to me.

I just learned of Charles Stross and Ramez Naam ( but he only wrote a trilogy awhile back ), I will look into them too.
 
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I read from my favorite site Sci Fiction and with keen sadness I still feel watched it go defunct. But it's still, so far, Archived.

It has two columns of stories, "Archived Classics" and "Archived Originals".

The (good) irony is that 18 years later, some of the "Original" authors are now "Classic".

Do not miss Ted Chiang ("The Story of Your Life") or astrophysicist Gregory Benford ("Bow Shock").

But, with that good kind of irony, they are classics now. Sites posting newer authors' work, or the recent years of Hugo and Nebula Wards, might help the search.
 
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What’s wrong with this?

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There is nothing wrong with it. It just wasn’t much help for me, it really couldn’t find anything I was looking for. Not to mention I really am interested in what the people here on this forum like in modern science fiction. I’m very sorry if I upset you.
 
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I’d second Gareth L. Powell, but would recommend avoiding recent Hugo winners on the whole.
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Why do you recommend avoiding recent Hugo winners?

I have also been avoiding them too because some neo-nazis have been winning awards , they are starting to gain real head way in science fiction. In the past science fiction sure we had ‘Starship Troopers’ but it wasn’t completely neo-Nazi, it was more like military sci-if. They just didn’t call it that back then because they had no name for it. Those type of military science fiction never preached any neo-Nazi messages. I will not stand for Nazi-like science fiction authors , that goes against all that science fiction is about. If you want to write speculative fiction on , say an alternative universe of neo-nazis then that is fine as long as it’s message is not hate oriented. Seriously though all of us here should really not allow these bigots to be allowed to win Hugo and other science fiction awards. I wrote to them about this once. If you feel a book or author one is spewing hate then please write to them too.
 
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Connie Willis
Anne Leckie
Ian Macdonald
Iain M Banks
Jeff Noon
China Mieville

Some overlap with the 1990s.
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Thank you. Yeah, I have been doing my own research, on top of your guys help, and I am finding that there aren’t that many new 21st century science fiction authors, maybe they will come later on in the future. Most of them are like one hit wonders, they write one good book of science fiction and then stop. Would Jeff Vandermeer be considered a 21st century science fiction author or part of the New Weird?
 
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Immortality under 40 k

The Gauntest Ghost series by Dan Abney a great series
Eisenhorn and Ravenor by Dan Abney
Caiphis Cain by Sandy Mitchell is ' another great series and comically funny series. Its Flashman in outer Space
Straken By Toby Frost is also excellent
Baneblade by Guy Haley
 
I have read The Merchant Princes series by Charles Stross three times, and a couple of books more than that.

The Merchant Princes - Wikipedia

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It is very much about political power games. On the basis of reviews some people don't like that.
As it starts off it gives the impression that it might be fantasy but it turns into science fiction kind of like the Paratime stories by H. Beam Piper.

It is either 9 books or 6 books depending on how you count. The first 6 of the 9 got repackaged as 3 double books.

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Immortality said:
Thank you. Yeah, I have been doing my own research, on top of your guys help, and I am finding that there aren’t that many new 21st century science fiction authors, maybe they will come later on in the future. Most of them are like one hit wonders, they write one good book of science fiction and then stop. Would Jeff Vandermeer be considered a 21st century science fiction author or part of the New Weird?
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There is nothing wrong with looking for 21st centure authors.

Can I check your definitions, to make sure you are not missing out in your search?

The Golden Age authors had mostly stopped writing by the end of the 1980s, if not before, and are a particular subset that do not really include 1960s New Wave authors. There is potentially a valuable gap if you jump straight from there to the 21st century. For example, both William F Gibson and Neil Stephenson published their first novels in the1980s and are still going strong.
 
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Immortality said:
Why do you recommend avoiding recent Hugo winners?

I have also been avoiding them too because some neo-nazis have been winning awards , they are starting to gain real head way in science fiction. In the past science fiction sure we had ‘Starship Troopers’ but it wasn’t completely neo-Nazi, it was more like military sci-if. They just didn’t call it that back then because they had no name for it. Those type of military science fiction never preached any neo-Nazi messages. I will not stand for Nazi-like science fiction authors , that goes against all that science fiction is about. If you want to write speculative fiction on , say an alternative universe of neo-nazis then that is fine as long as it’s message is not hate oriented. Seriously though all of us here should really not allow these bigots to be allowed to win Hugo and other science fiction awards. I wrote to them about this once. If you feel a book or author one is spewing hate then please write to them too.
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I have no knowledge of any ‘neo-nazi’ fiction winning any Hugo awards recently, and that certainly isn’t the reason behind my suggestion. Can you give any examples? It doesn’t ring true to me.

My suggestion is based on the fact that all the recent winners that I’ve tried have not appealed to me. I no longer consider the Hugo’s to be an indicator of quality, as I think so few vote these days, and only a certain type of book has a chance of winning… but I have to careful what I say, as such thoughts are not really allowed to be expressed here. I suggest we move on rather than discuss further…
 
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