Okay, flist...
Dec. 2nd, 2007 12:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agilebritI know there's a lot of SF/F readers and writers here. And most of you know I'm planning on going to WorldCon (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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?
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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Date: 2007-12-02 09:53 pm (UTC)H. G. Wells is pretty much sci-fic, and the "first" sci-fi novel was Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Kurt Vonnegut has done some very strange things with aliens and time travel that could fall under the title of science fiction. He's... intense, though.
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Date: 2007-12-02 10:36 pm (UTC)Someday I should come back to Vonnegut. I tried back in high school, and he just never grabbed me. I probably wasn't old enough.