Top 10 Favorite Authors!

[psikeyhackr]

Not bad 7 in common...

This is why I never actually do this on my own.

Now I'm thinking about putting in James P. Hogan in to replace Robert Silverberg.

Next month I would probably do something else.

Maybe I could make a top 30 list that would keep the same writers but I would be reordering them every week. It would depend on who I read most recently.

People don't explain why they like or dislike a certain book or author enough.

psik

[EllenS]

Interesting that no one else has Harlan Ellison on their list.

In no particular order I'd pick:

1) Theodore Sturgeon (I've read Saucer of Lonliness dozens of time)
2) Cordwainer Smith (same for A Planet Named Shayol)
3) Asimov- he and Jane Austen ruled my teen years
4) James Tiptree - she makes me think more than any other author
5)Bujold- romance and adventure with great characters
6)Connie Willis- I love her humour- I just finished To Say Nothing of the Dog
7)Robert J. Sawyer- Great light reading page turners for me.
8)Orson Scott Card- I'm on the team that likes Ender
9)Larry Niven- well, I like him, but I love it when he teams up with Pournelle

and Harlan- and I even like Harlan's enormously long prefaces and introductions in his anthologies.

eta- there. I explained.