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Here is a list of some of my recent fav authors, and some of my favorite work(s) by said authors. I would encourage anyone to read any of these. Some are a bit hard to read if you aren’t a scifi geek, but others are downright accessible to anyone, even my wife! (they are marked with a *).

In no particular order… they are:

• Arthur C. Clarke – Childhood’s End, Foundation Series
• Frank Herbert – Dune
• JRR Tolkien – Lord of the Rings (duh)
• * Neil Gaiman – American Gods, Neverwhere
• China Mieville – Perdido Street Station, The Scar, Iron Council, King Rat
• * Orson Scott Card – Ender’s Game, Treason, Enchantment, Seventh Son, (All his short stories, too!)
• * John Scalzi – Old Man’s War
• * Joe Haldeman – Forever War, Forever Peace
• * David Brin – The Postman, Kiln People
• William Gibson – Neuromancer, Pattern Recognition
• Neal Stephenson – Snow Crash, Diamond Age
• Richard Morgan – Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Market Forces
• * Audrey Niffenegger – The Time Traveler’s Wife
• Neal Asher – Cowl, The Skinner, Gridlinked
• * Nick Sagan – Idlewild
• August Seebeck – Godplayers
• Roger Zelzany – The Amber Series
• Minister Faust – The Coyote Kings of the Space Age Bachelor Pad
• * Cory Doctorow – Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Eastern Standard Tribe
• Alfred Bester – The Stars are my Destination
  
• Phillip K. Dick – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
  
• George Orwell – 1984
• Ray Bradbury – (Anything!)
  
• Robert Heinlein – The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (the best heinlein book), Sixth Column
  
• * Phillip Pullman – His Dark Materials Trilogy
• Douglas Adams – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series
• Stephen Baxter – Manifold Trilogy
• * Steven Gould – Reflex
• Ian MacLeod – The Light Ages
• Susanna Clarke – Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell
• Steven Elliot Altman – Deprivers
• * Ken Grimwood – Replay
• Jonathan Lethem – Gun, With Occassional Music, Amnesia Moon, (& everything else)
• Stephen King – The Dark Tower Series
  
• Stanislaw Lem – Solaris

I will add to this list as I read ‘em. This is only going back about a year or so… so there is a lot more that I have to “rediscover” (in boxes in the garage) or find anew at the local B&N or Amazon.
Suggestions are always welcome!