Monday 13 April 2009

Speculative Fiction I <3 (part II)





Alan Garner
Alan Moore
Alan Sondheim
Alfred Bester
Amy Sterling Casil
Angela Carter
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Bruce Sterling
Carlton Mellick III
Carol Emshwiller
China Mieville
Chuck Palahniuk
Clive Barker
Cormac McCarthy
D. Harlan Wilson
Diana Wynne Jones
Dan Lloyd
Dan Simmons
Damien Broderick
David Marusek
Djuna Barnes
Don DeLillo
Douglas Adams
Ed Dorn
Flann O'Brien
Frank Herbert
Franz Kafka
Gabriel García Marquez
Gene Wolfe
Greg Bear
Gregory Benford
H. P. Lovecraft
Harlan Ellison
Haruki Murakami
Iain [M.] Banks
Iain Sinclair
Ian McDonald
J. H. Prynne
Jeanette Winterson
Jeff Noon
Jeff Vandermeer
John Wyndham
Jorge Luis Borges
Justin Katko
Karen Joy Fowler
Kathy Acker
Kim Stanley Robinson
Kelly Link
Kenji Siratori
Kobo Abé
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Kurt Vonnegut
L. Neil Smith
Larry Niven
Lisa Goldstein
Lois McMaster Bujold
Margaret Atwood
Martha Soukup
Martin Amis
Mary Turzillo
Michael Chabon
Michael Swanwick
Milorad Pavic
Neal Asher
Neal Stephenson
Neil Gaiman
Octavia E. Butler
Pat Cadigan
Paul Auster
Paul Di Fillipo
Piers Anthony
Philip K. Dick
Ray Bradbury
Raymond Chandler
Richard Morgan
Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Heinlein
Robert Rankin
Roberto Bolano
Roger Zelazny
Salman Rushdie
Samuel Delany
Stephen Baxter
Ted Chiang
Terry Pratchett
Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Ligotti
Ursula LeGuin
Virginia Woolf
William Gaddis
Yasutaka Tsutsui
Zoran Zivkovic

These are my favourite "speculative fiction, science fiction, horror, fantasy, children's, slipstream, magical realist, fabulist, modernist, postmodernist, maximalist, new weird, avant garde and bizarro" authors. Even for that catch-all Chandler is a bit of a cheat, but I think Marlowe may be an android. Watch out for Dorn, Sondheim, Siratori, Prynne and Katko, they're (sorta) poets! I didn't mean for my list to include important people I haven't read or don't really go in for, like Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov. I quite like Asimov's mysteries and the list of all the books he wrote. Must get on.

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