Other SF writers?

Russ Allbery · 13 May 2008, 05:11 · from 2008-May.txt.gz

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From: rra at stanford.edu (Russ Allbery)
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 22:11:18 -0700
Subject: (urth) Other SF writers?
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Pedro Pereira <domus_artemis at hotmail.com> writes:

> Nope. Yes, I have more of an hard sci-fi bent, but I like every kind of
> literature, including fantasy. Notice that some of the books I
> recomended are not even really sci-fi, or hard-sci-fi.
>  
> I'm really picky about what I read, and Baxter for some reason doesn't
> really grab my interest. Most sci-fi and fantasy doesn't grab my
> interest, to be honest. But when its good, its IS really good.

I'm not much of a fan of Baxter either, although so far I've only read him
at short story length.  What I've read has wooden characters and
sacrifices story to historical sweep, which bugs me.

The best hard SF writer currently publishing right now is, IMO, Karl
Schroeder, who deserves to be better-known than he is.  _Lady of Mazes_
deserved a Hugo; it was head and shoulders against everything else that
year that was actually nominated.  His current series, Virga, is more
adventure and less thoughtful, but is still becoming quite good as it
develops.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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