Okay, flist...

[agilebrit]

I know there's a lot of SF/F readers and writers here. And most of you know I'm planning on going to WorldCon (denvention3) next year.

And I'm terribly afraid of looking like a complete and utter n00b. I only recently got back into reading genre fiction (fiction that's not fanfic at all, really}, and I have no idea who the "hot people" are or who I should be reading. Oh, I have my favorites (old and new)...but who are the people I'm missing?

Lois McMaster Bujold
Alan Dean Foster
Jim Butcher
Terry Pratchett
Neil Gaiman
Diana Pharaoh Francis

And of course, I cut my teeth on people like Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, Niven, et al.

Added to the list of "who am I missing" is "who should I avoid like the plague and why?"

Also, I'm thinking I should be subscribing to at least one if not two magazines. I know Locus is the industry mag, but I'm wondering if I'd be better served by subscribing to a couple of fiction mags instead, because it might be easier to get me up to speed that way, rather than slogging through a bunch of "news." Which two should I subscribe to?

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[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

And darn, again, I was hoping you'd make it down her for Life, the Universe, and Everything in February. *cough* I have a spare bedroom...

And thanks!