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Re: Favourite authors. Nate Send a noteboard - 06/01/2012 07:27:01 PM
I'm not sure I can really answer this the way it's set up. I don't read much science fiction. My favourite author overall is Neil Gaiman, for the way he paints fairy tales and dreams with deceptively simple words that reach out to the ancestral root of myths inside us.

But overall I have a classification system for my authors. I have A-List authors, whose works I purchase as soon as they are released, in hardcover if that's how they're published, and then I have B-List authors, whose works I collect over time, often in paperback and years after they're published. Then there's everyone else, some of whom I like, some of whom I don't, some of whom I haven't read.

At any rate, my current A-List is, in no particular order: Neil Gaiman, Brandon Sanderson, Matthew Stover, Patrick Rothfuss, Scott Lynch, George Martin.

My current B-List is: Guy Gavriel Kay, Robin Hobb, Tad Williams, Stephen King, R. Scott Bakker, Steven Erikson, Jim Butcher, J.K. Rowling, Gene Wolfe, Dan Simmons. EDIT - Neal Stephenson and China Mieville fit here as well.
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Matthew Stover. - 07/01/2012 01:05:24 AM 894 Views
I think the second book is out of print... - 07/01/2012 01:14:16 AM 886 Views
Yeah. - 07/01/2012 01:20:12 AM 844 Views
Re: Matthew Stover. - 07/01/2012 01:16:45 AM 933 Views
Re: Matthew Stover. - 07/01/2012 01:19:44 AM 960 Views
this is hard and it will change if you ask me again in 6 months - 06/01/2012 08:43:09 PM 961 Views
This is trickxsy. - 06/01/2012 10:37:40 PM 934 Views
I forgot about Stephenson. - 06/01/2012 10:47:35 PM 835 Views
I suck at choosing absolute favourites, I like far too much stuff for that, but okay... - 06/01/2012 11:38:30 PM 940 Views
You should read more scfi - 07/01/2012 12:08:21 AM 839 Views
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Try reading Hamilton - 07/01/2012 05:47:51 AM 809 Views
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SF suggestion... - 07/01/2012 01:08:22 AM 965 Views
The questions get easier as I go from top to bottom for me. - 07/01/2012 12:31:24 AM 901 Views
You and I actually agree on something?! - 07/01/2012 01:09:37 AM 908 Views
I think you mean to be surprised that we agree about something book-related. - 07/01/2012 01:20:25 AM 925 Views
Well, yes, but you are a Republican, aren't you? - 07/01/2012 01:40:31 AM 1074 Views
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Fair enough. - 07/01/2012 04:12:37 AM 1178 Views
No one will share my answers, I'm sure. - 07/01/2012 01:03:35 AM 976 Views
Authors suck. I like books. *NM* - 07/01/2012 04:30:34 AM 376 Views
At first, I thought this said "boobs." - 07/01/2012 07:48:07 AM 925 Views
now authors who both suck and have boobs are the best *NM* - 07/01/2012 03:15:25 PM 389 Views
Re: Favourite authors. - 07/01/2012 02:20:52 PM 925 Views
Mine - 07/01/2012 03:55:58 PM 1032 Views
Sanderson, no doubt.....Also..... - 07/01/2012 05:28:01 PM 905 Views
Re: Favourite authors. - 11/01/2012 03:38:53 PM 892 Views
Ok. I've finally decided on my answers for this. - 12/01/2012 08:46:55 PM 1006 Views

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