Matt Morgan
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
So I am looking for a new author (I've read all of your books, so worry not). What authors influenced you within the science fiction genre? Any authors you would particularly recommend (even if they didn't influence you directly)?
Lois McMaster Bujold
I am woefully behind on newer authors.
Of the older authors I read Back When, one standout is Cordwainer Smith. I suspect an unusually high percentage of his stuff may have aged well. Other names to try -- and I haven't reread enough of them lately to be sure about that aging-well/badly issue -- might be Randall Garrett, Poul Anderson, Eric Frank Russell, Zenna Henderson, Roger Zelazny, Daniel Keyes (only one book -- Flowers for Algernon, but with a book like that you only need one), James H. Schmitz and Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
Ta, L.
Of the older authors I read Back When, one standout is Cordwainer Smith. I suspect an unusually high percentage of his stuff may have aged well. Other names to try -- and I haven't reread enough of them lately to be sure about that aging-well/badly issue -- might be Randall Garrett, Poul Anderson, Eric Frank Russell, Zenna Henderson, Roger Zelazny, Daniel Keyes (only one book -- Flowers for Algernon, but with a book like that you only need one), James H. Schmitz and Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
Ta, L.
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Steven Sarafian
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I read e-books on an iPad and mostly get them from iBooks. The indications of genre in 'Library' view are all over the place: "Penric's Demon" is labeled 'Historical', "Penric's Mission" and "Paladin of Souls" 'Epic', "The Curse of Chalion" 'Paranormal'. Of course many others are better labeled. I suppose that you are not the decider, but do you have any influence? And who does decide?
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