need recommendtions for new writers

[Neo80]

i start reading science fiction when i was 14, my first sf book was the Naked Sun by Asimov
after that book, i read almost all of Asimov books, then i star looking for other writers.
over all these years i read only for a selected numbers of sf writers, mostly Arthur C.Clarke,
David Brin, Gregory Benford, Philip K.Dick, Vernor Vinge, William Gibson & Peter F Hamilton, that beside the spin-off novels like Star Trek & Star Wars
but now i want to read for other writers, a friend recommended Diaspora by Greg Egan, well
i couldn't finish the bloody book, i barley made it to page 40 then i gave up.
i want to read for a writer as good as Asimov or Vernor Vinge, any recommend

 

[Darren]

How about Greg Bear or Larry Niven

 

[deborama]

I cannot help but notice these are all men. I recommend Ursula K. LeGuin (esp. The Dispossessed) as a first step to stopping all that. Also Sherri Tepper is good. Anne McCaffrey if you like things sort of fantasy-oriented. Also James Tiptree, Jr. (a woman, despite the name).

 

[cdm]

Add Poul Anderson and Andre Norton -- and me, of course.

 

[Neo80]

i read some of Greg Bear books & the one i liked more was Eon it was really good but felt kind old now, for Poul Anderson i just start reading The Boat of a million years, so far it ok
it ture that all of these writers are men, i can't help it
did any body read any of Alastair Reynolds books ie Revelation Space or Redemption Ark, i didn't read them yet

 

[letterHead]

If you like William Gibson, you might like Pat Cadigan. I'm reading Tea From an Empty Cup at the moment. Similar science to Gibson's cyberspace novels, though more of a detective story. I do find the oft mentioned term 'Artificial Reality' a little irritating, though. I mean, if its artificial its not reality, is it?

 

[Morry]

Feminism, feminism...

Originally posted by deborama
I cannot help but notice these are all men. I recommend Ursula K. LeGuin (esp. The Dispossessed) as a first step to stopping all that. Also Sherri Tepper is good. Anne McCaffrey if you like things sort of fantasy-oriented. Also James Tiptree, Jr. (a woman, despite the name).

Why is it that people always come back to the idea that there might be a 'problem' with most recognised as good SF writers being men? I do not mean that women SF writers are not good writers as well. Just thinking that it is not at all a necessity to use the gender of a writer as a sign of must-read.
I could not but recommend reading Donna Haraway, especially her Cyborg Manifesto.
Oh, if you wonder, I am a woman, not a man, by the way, and I find McCaffrey very boringly female.


Morry

 

[phil_t]

I would recommend Richard Morgan if you are looking for a bright new author - i loved his debut Altered Carbon

 

[Melter]

How about China Mieville or Adam Roberts for something a bit different.

Recommends:
Perdido Street Station - China Mieville
On - Adam Roberts

 

[Carlos]

Peter F Hamilton. Very good scifi.

Couldn't get into Perdido Street Melter. Wierd

 

[Oponn]

Steven Erikson

 

[Helenl]

If you want new authors instead of just older ones you never read I think C. D. Moulton is really good for the kinds of things like Asimov wrote, plus there's a lot of humor in the ones after the third or fourth one. I've got through book 7 and just ordered book 8-9. I got most of them e-books, but the last one and the two I ordered are the regular paper books.
I got three of them in Paris, but the paper books cost too much for shipping, so they go to my sister's and she will send them to me.
I really liked his ghost book too if you like something a little different.