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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 ([livejournal.com profile] 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?

Date: 2007-12-02 11:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] difrancis.livejournal.com
Heh. All those books and not enough time. So I say Carol Berg because she's good. Robin Hobb--good and huge in the field. There's the obvious biggies like GRRM. This is the fantasy book critic: http://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/ And he's got links to other review sites.

Personally I settle on what I like and just go there. Lately that's been epic fantasy and urban fantasy. I like Ilona Andrews' Magic Bites, Patty Brigg's Mercy series, Anne Bishop (The Black Jewels are my favorite, but be warned, the first one is dark and disturbing in its violence--the second two make up for it in a HUGE way with great characters and good winning over evil as it should be). I like Sharon Lee and Steve Miller's stuff. Lois Bujold. Kate Elliot. Robin McKinley's Sunshine is good too.

I've got lots more ideas of course.

As for Denvention . . . the trouble is Tony may be going back to work by then , in which case I'll be child-watching and may not be able to get there. Plus SpoCon is going to happen about then. I'm going to try to get to RadCon in February. Looks like huge fun.

All right, must go be productive. Oh, some more review sites I like:

http://sqt-fantasy-sci-fi-girl.blogspot.com/search/label/.Books?max-results=100

http://fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com/

http://scifichick.com/

http://www.dondammassa.com/

Di

Date: 2007-12-02 11:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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!

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