So, who makes your "must buy" list? Who makes your "will probably buy list"? Why? What book(s) put them there? What genre or genres do they write? Is this something your normally read?
Neal Stephenson because his prose makes me weak in my knees and because his stories are clever and original and complex.
Gregory Maguire because his stories are compelling and fantastical and timely.
George MacDonald Fraser because Harry Flashman is my hero. Fraser writes alternative history that is anything but and yet is.
J. K. Rowling because of Harry & Co. and because you can't argue with the fact that she struck a mighty cord.
Stephen R. Donaldson because he defined modern fantasy.
Can't think of any others on the Must Buy list for SFF.
Most other modern SFF writers don't make the Must Buy cut for me because their prose sucks, and because much of what is deemed original and clever is just random weirdness thrown in to astound and astonish modern readers who never learned to read well (and hence, need their sentences cut up into small pieces to aid their comprehension) and who have the attention spans of toddlers sitting at a table loaded with shiney objects.
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Neal Stephenson because his prose makes me weak in my knees and because his stories are clever and original and complex.
Gregory Maguire because his stories are compelling and fantastical and timely.
George MacDonald Fraser because Harry Flashman is my hero. Fraser writes alternative history that is anything but and yet is.
J. K. Rowling because of Harry & Co. and because you can't argue with the fact that she struck a mighty cord.
Stephen R. Donaldson because he defined modern fantasy.
Can't think of any others on the Must Buy list for SFF.
Most other modern SFF writers don't make the Must Buy cut for me because their prose sucks, and because much of what is deemed original and clever is just random weirdness thrown in to astound and astonish modern readers who never learned to read well (and hence, need their sentences cut up into small pieces to aid their comprehension) and who have the attention spans of toddlers sitting at a table loaded with shiney objects.
But that's just my opinion.