{"id":782,"date":"2008-08-08T13:30:37","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T13:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/?p=782"},"modified":"2008-08-08T13:30:37","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T13:30:37","slug":"sff-authors-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/2008\/08\/sff-authors-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"SF+F Authors Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago SFX<\/cite> published a SF and Fantasy Books Special<\/a> which contained a top 100 Favourite SF and Fantasy authors of all time<\/b> decided by popular vote. The list shows the perils of popular votes… But lets turn it into a meme anyway.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Bold<\/b> any authors who you have read; italicise<\/i> any authors who are sitting on your current to-read pile (not literally I hope); strike through<\/s> any authors you plan to never read\/read again.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Terry Pratchett<\/b><\/li>\n
  2. JRR Tolkien<\/b><\/li>\n
  3. Neil Gaiman<\/b><\/li>\n
  4. Douglas Adams<\/b><\/li>\n
  5. George RR Martin<\/li>\n
  6. Isaac Asimov<\/b><\/li>\n
  7. Iain M. Banks<\/b><\/li>\n
  8. Philip K. Dick<\/b><\/li>\n
  9. HG Wells<\/b><\/li>\n
  10. Robert Rankin<\/b><\/li>\n
  11. Ursula K. LeGuin<\/b><\/li>\n
  12. David Gemmell<\/b><\/li>\n
  13. Peter F. Hamilton<\/b><\/li>\n
  14. Frank Herbert<\/b><\/li>\n
  15. Robert Heinlein<\/b><\/li>\n
  16. JK Rowling<\/b><\/li>\n
  17. Robert Jordan<\/li>\n
  18. Arthur C. Clarke<\/b><\/li>\n
  19. Ray Bradbury<\/li>\n
  20. Stephen King<\/li>\n
  21. Robin Hobb<\/li>\n
  22. Philip Pullman<\/b><\/li>\n
  23. John Wyndham<\/b><\/li>\n
  24. Diana Wynne Jones<\/li>\n
  25. CS Lewis<\/b><\/li>\n
  26. Guy Gavriel Kay<\/li>\n
  27. William Gibson<\/b><\/li>\n
  28. Steven Erikson<\/li>\n
  29. Anne McCaffrey<\/b><\/li>\n
  30. Roger Zelazny<\/b><\/li>\n
  31. Lois McMaster Bujold<\/li>\n
  32. Raymond E. Feist<\/b><\/li>\n
  33. China Mieville<\/b><\/li>\n
  34. Gene Wolfe<\/i><\/li>\n
  35. Stephen Donaldson<\/li>\n
  36. Orson Scott Card<\/li>\n
  37. Alan Moore<\/b><\/li>\n
  38. David Eddings<\/b><\/li>\n
  39. Michael Moorcock<\/b><\/li>\n
  40. Trudi Canavan<\/li>\n
  41. Kurt Vonnegut<\/li>\n
  42. Tad Williams<\/li>\n
  43. Jim Butcher<\/li>\n
  44. Clive Barker<\/li>\n
  45. Neal Stephenson<\/b><\/i><\/li>\n
  46. Alastair Reynolds<\/b><\/i><\/li>\n
  47. Jules Verne<\/li>\n
  48. Mervyn Peake<\/b><\/li>\n
  49. H.P. Lovecraft<\/li>\n
  50. Sherri S. Tepper<\/li>\n
  51. Robert E. Howard<\/li>\n
  52. J.G. Ballard<\/li>\n
  53. Octavia Butler<\/li>\n
  54. Jasper Fforde<\/b><\/li>\n
  55. Harlan Ellison<\/li>\n
  56. CJ Cherryh<\/li>\n
  57. Mercedes Lackey<\/li>\n
  58. Jennifer Fallon<\/li>\n
  59. Stephen Baxter<\/b><\/li>\n
  60. Richard Morgan<\/li>\n
  61. Terry Brooks<\/b><\/li>\n
  62. Elizabeth Haydon<\/li>\n
  63. Dan Simmons<\/b><\/li>\n
  64. Richard Matheson<\/li>\n
  65. Marion Zimmer Bradley<\/b><\/li>\n
  66. Harry Harrison<\/b><\/li>\n
  67. Jack Vance<\/b><\/li>\n
  68. Katharine Kerr<\/b><\/li>\n
  69. Alfred Bester<\/b><\/li>\n
  70. Larry Niven<\/b><\/li>\n
  71. Stanislaw Lem<\/b><\/li>\n
  72. Susanna Clarke<\/b><\/i><\/li>\n
  73. Robert Silverberg<\/b><\/li>\n
  74. Edgar Rice Burroughs<\/li>\n
  75. Julian May<\/li>\n
  76. Charles de Lint<\/li>\n
  77. Samuel R. Delany<\/li>\n
  78. George Orwell<\/b><\/li>\n
  79. Simon Clark<\/li>\n
  80. Joe Haldeman<\/b><\/li>\n
  81. Joe Abercrombie<\/li>\n
  82. J.V. Jones<\/li>\n
  83. Theodore Sturgeon<\/li>\n
  84. Kim Stanley Robinson<\/b><\/li>\n
  85. Jacqueline Carey<\/li>\n
  86. M. John Harrison<\/b><\/li>\n
  87. David Weber<\/li>\n
  88. Scott Lynch<\/li>\n
  89. Jonathan Carroll<\/li>\n
  90. Christopher Priest<\/li>\n
  91. Jon Courtney Grimwood<\/li>\n
  92. Michael Marshall Smith<\/b><\/li>\n
  93. Olaf Stapledon<\/li>\n
  94. Ken MacLeod<\/b><\/i><\/li>\n
  95. Brian W. Aldiss<\/b><\/li>\n
  96. Terry Goodkind<\/li>\n
  97. Charles Stross<\/li>\n
  98. Sara Douglass<\/li>\n
  99. Gwyneth Jones<\/li>\n
  100. James Herbert<\/s><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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