Bonus points for any books you believe are classics from that time period. Any language, but only fiction please.
I’m really excited to see what Lemmy has.
Really love how nobody is hating on any of the replies here.
Cory Doctorow and I suggest reading Walkaway. I found it transformative.
Little Brother too, very good.
Andy McNabb
I just thought of another: Bernard Cornwell. His novel series (Sharpe, The Last Kingdom, etc) are phenomenal historical fiction.
Ted Chiang
Greg Egan
Peter Watts
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Time and Shards of Earth are great and Tchaikovsky will only get better.
I’ve enjoyed immensely every book he’s written. :)
Margaret Atwood
Elmore Leonard. Dude was a massive influence on popular culture. He was instrumental in teaching Tarantino how to be Tarantino. He wrote the books that SO MANY great movies and television shows were based on.
Hunter Thompson. His gonzo style is often imitated but rarely duplicated. And it’s such a goddamn simple concept, but no one else managed to do it with his flair.
Brandon Sanderson
The man is a top flight book generating machine. Where he’s taking the Cosmere, I don’t know, but I’m gladly awaiting for the novels he’ll write the in future to find out. Reading the Stormlight Archive and Mistborn is a joy.
I also really enjoyed how he wrapped up The Wheel of Time. He is much less reluctant to kill off characters than many other authors, and that series needed some serious character culling to bring closure.
I’ve got the hardcover for his new mystery novel ordered. Can’t wait for it to arrive and to read it.
Second this one
Douglas Adams is undoubtedly one of the greatest writers of the period.
He is known for light, surrealistic science fiction comedy, not a genre generally considered “high art” but his mastery of language is superb. He is a master of analogies in a way that is both funny but also makes the reader think about the roles and conventions of symbolism in language.
“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”
Oh wow I was legitimately surprised that Adams even fit in this thread. I’d have thought he was a mid-20th century author, writing at around the same time as Tolkien. But nope. The book of Hitchhiker’s Guide came out in '79…
Iain (M) Banks
China Mieville
Two of my faves
Terry Pratchett. Brandon Sanderson has a nice essay about Pratchett.
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There’s a lot of authors here I love so I’ll mention one who isn’t here.
Christopher Moore.
He writes fantastic, absurd, loving stories.
Robert Munsch
Stephen King is definitely a great author
Agreed. I recently read 11/22/63, and even though I’m European with not that much interest in American history, the way King tells his story kept me hooked all the way through the book, truly an amazing author
Stephen King is an amazing story creator. I think his actual writing is awful though. Apparently he was so coked out and drunk that he doesn’t even remember writing Cujo. It shows in the repetitiveness and ramblings in his writing.
