First: dead people. Lots of dead people. If it's dead and pulpy, I'm interested: Howard Jones' collections of Harold Lamb's fiction, the Night Shades collections of Klarkash-Ton et al., Lemuria Press' upcoming edition of Kuttner's Elak of Atlantis, the Haffner collections of Leigh Brackett. I'm all over that stuff.
Among the living, Michael Chabon is certainly on my must-buy list. Also Judith Berman, whose Bear Daughter is a very strange and wonderful, yet accessible, book. A strong second here to djonn's endorsement of Sherwood Smith. Then, too: Peter S. Beagle. Gene Wolfe (although the last book or two in his multibook series always disappoints me). On the sf side, Charles Stross and Lois Bujold (I'm not so crazy about her fantasies, although Curse of Chalion was pretty impressive).
Neil Gaiman is a maybe-buy: I wasn't as impressed with American Gods as most people seemed to be, though it had some great things in it. I like what I've read of Naomi Novik's Temeraire books. I respected (though didn't really enjoy) Ellen Kushner's Swordspoint, and would probably buy books by her again (although I haven't yet). Other maybe-buys: Tobias Buckell (whose Crystal Rain was intriguing, if not an absolute success), R. Scott Bakker (although I'm getting very tired of Big Huge Books That Are Only Really Parts of a Bigger Huger Book), Scott Lynch (I like his ideas but his writing seems strangely amateurish at times).
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Date: 2007-08-31 11:12 pm (UTC)Among the living, Michael Chabon is certainly on my must-buy list. Also Judith Berman, whose Bear Daughter is a very strange and wonderful, yet accessible, book. A strong second here to
Neil Gaiman is a maybe-buy: I wasn't as impressed with American Gods as most people seemed to be, though it had some great things in it. I like what I've read of Naomi Novik's Temeraire books. I respected (though didn't really enjoy) Ellen Kushner's Swordspoint, and would probably buy books by her again (although I haven't yet). Other maybe-buys: Tobias Buckell (whose Crystal Rain was intriguing, if not an absolute success), R. Scott Bakker (although I'm getting very tired of Big Huge Books That Are Only Really Parts of a Bigger Huger Book), Scott Lynch (I like his ideas but his writing seems strangely amateurish at times).
Um. That'll do for a start.