Favourite sci-fi authors

stephen baxter, his books are epic.

 

Dick. My all time favourite. Asimov, Bester, Vonnegut.
I love many sci fi books, but if I love one from the author, doesn't mean I like his other works. *shrugs*
Not really a fan of Adams, though I read most (if not all) of his works. Overrated imo. Bradbury was too poetic for me, but I tried rereading him, and I like some of his novels.

 

So few mention Iain M Banks . The Culture novels are epic . I am greatly saddened by his recent untimely death .

 

David Brin and Larry Niven are rather enjoyable authors.

 

For me, it's P.K.Dick for his introspective paranoid characters and their philosophies with a very imaginative settings and A.C.Clarke for his hard sci-fi take. He makes things not only logical, but he's the best evader of plot holes or dumb reactions of characters. Truly a realist in his approach. I've read Rendezvous with Rama recently and it's slow, precisely woven story was great. I've liked O.S.Card's Ender's game too. It was a very different take on sci-fi too. But I haven't read any of his other books, so I don't wanna judge him by a single book.

 

Edgar Rice Burroughs, Isaac Asimov, and Ray Bradbury.

 

me. myself. deepblue. only in turkish, now.

 

Ursula LeGuin & Phillip K.Dick

 

Frank Herbert

I've read all of his books and of course the brilliant Dune series



Hotwater

 

Have to agree fully with that. The Dune books are really my all time sci-fi favorites.

Ursula K. LeGuin also wrote a couple of goodies - 'City of Illusions' and 'The Left Hand of Darkness'. The second one was probably inspired by Dune, and has a kind of reverse situation - a planet where it's permanent winter.

Philip k. Dick is another I like a lot.

 

Too many to name. But Aldous Huxley is legend.

 

I follow this 2 authors for sci fic movie.

Aurora- Book Kim Stanley Robinson
Seveneve - Book Neal Stephenson

 

Douglas Adams
Andy Weir

 

I must read his work. The two best stories in "Love Death and Robots" were his, so he must be a great author.

 

I can really recommend Peter F Hamilton. The reality dysfunction is superb (last book misses a little) and some of his other titles are very good. I have always loved old sci fi from the 40s and 50s particularly the time travel ones. Obviously Asimov, Dick, Heinlein, Herbert go without saying. So many over the years

 

He did not "invent" the comms satellite. He came up with the idea of it, that is all

 

Being able to imagine something as grand as the Xelee Sequence is really impressive.

 

Ray Bradbury
Michael Crichton
Isaac Asimov
Michael Moorcock