SF author list recommendations: Thank you!

[mckitterick]

Here is the compiled list of recommendations so far for the SF authors list (original list here) that we're putting together for our library's SF collection:

Forrest J. Ackerman
Robert Asprin
Kage Baker
Elizabeth Bear
Lloyd Biggle Jr.
David R. Bunch
Jonathan Carroll
John Crowley
FORD, John
Edmond Hamilton
Zenna Henderson
William Hope Hodgson
Dean Ing
Gwyneth Jones (and any other writer with a surname beginning with J.)
James Patrick Kelly
Keith Laumer
Raphael Aloysius Lafferty
Madeleine L'Engle
Doris Lessing
Brian Lumley
Richard Matheson
Julian May
Anne McCaffrey
Patricia A. McKillip
Elizabeth Moon
NOURSE, Alan E.
Paul Park
H. Beam Piper
Robert Reed
RESNICK, Mike
RUSSELL, Eric Frank
Fred Saberhagen
Bob Shaw
Nevil Shute
STEELE, Allen
John Stith
Harry Turtledove
Howard Waldrop

Are we missing anyone else who belongs on this list?

Oh, and something I forgot to add in my original request! Could you please make rec's for the best examples of works for the authors you rec'd? That'll help ensure the library collects the books they should. I'll be sure to publish the updated list on our "A Basic Science Fiction Library" list

Thanks again!

Best,
Chris

Comments

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

Lester del Rey (mostly short fiction, I'm currently editing a two volume collection which will run about 500,000 words total, about 2/3 of his short fiction output)
Chad Oliver
Jerry Oltion
Rebecca Ore
Nicholas Yermakov
Robert F. Young

Other authors with a J name: Alexander Jablokov, Raymond F. Jones, Laurence M. Janifer

I'd misspelled . . .

[lazscott.livejournal.com]

"Forrest J. Ackerman." Sorry.

Some works to recommend

[lazscott.livejournal.com]

McKillip--_Riddle of Stars_ trilogy, which I read in junior high.

Ing--_Systemic Shock_, and its sequel.

[professormass.livejournal.com]

Warren Ellis, if you're including comic authors, at all. I consider Transmetropolitan to be a sci-fi series of considerable worth.

[intrepid.livejournal.com]

Peter F. Hamilton? Quite frankly, his world-building amazes me. The Night's Dawn trilogy alone is worth it.

[(Anonymous)]

I think the list should include William Sleator, especially if you're looking to interest younger readers in science fiction. Sleator's best novels that I've read are Interstellar Pig, Singularity, The Green Futures of Tycho, and The Duplicate.

[davekirtley.livejournal.com]

That was me.

Recommendations of best example works

[scottakennedy.livejournal.com]

Richard Matheson:
I Am Legend
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Hell House
The Beardless Warriors (non-sf, but really interesting to read the lightly fictionalized Matheson's experiences as an 18-year infantryman in WWII in light of the fictional horrors present in his other work)
Short Stories (I first bought them as Shock! Shock II, etc. Now published as collected stories.)

Nevil Shute -- On the Beach (I believe this is his only novel that could be classed as SF)

David R. Bunch -- Moderan (this may not qualify as influential, unless it influenced other writers not to write in odd robot slang, but I still remember it 20 years after reading it)

Elizabeth Moon -- The Speed of Dark, Remnant Population

Elizabeth Bear -- Hammered, Undertow, Dust

[kansas-dave.livejournal.com]

For Lafferty: 'Space Chantey' and '900 Grandmothers' at a minimum