Last updated March 1st, 1998
Science fiction and fantasy fans are, needless to say, devourers of books and other information pertaining to
their interests. Naturally enough, the Web has several wonderful, quite expansive sites of the information
that they crave. While many of the sites out there provide a variety of sources for locating one's favourite
authors and the like, I thought that folks would appreciate it if I presented a page that gave a somewhat large
listing of some of my favourite authors, and where to find them on the Web. The Web sites listed here are
not necessarily the Homepages of the authors in question, since some authors don't have Web sites (I
guess they prefer writing to doing this sort of thing!)
Furthermore, please note that I have not provided a tag with these links causing the Web pages of these authors
to load in a new browser or over the top of the current browser; they will be in the same web browser window.
Enjoy!
Authors List
- Poul Anderson
- One of the most innovative writers of our time, Poul Anderson seems to have been writing sf and
fantasy almost forever. His classic novels, as far as I'm concerned, include Tau Zero
and the Nicholas van Riijn series, but there are a lot of folks who like the Flandry books
as well.
- Patricia Anthony
- One of my favourite authors of the 1990s, Patricia Anthony's books are a pleasure to read.
While she has only written six or so novels, each of these books has been thought-provoking and
highly entertaining.
- Stephen Baxter
- One of the hot new British writers out there, Baxter's works are very hard science and full of
terrific characterizations and other great stuff.
- Poppy Z. Brite
- One of the young breed of modern horror writers, Brite's works draw heavily on science
fiction and fantasy themes for her source material.
- Steve Brust
- The creator of the Vlad Taltos series. He's Hungarian, and writes really good books.
What more can one say?
- Lois McMaster Bujold
- Lois McMaster Bujold is the creator of the Miles Vorkosigan series of works, and one
of the few writers of military sf whose works I like. This page is her official home page, and has her
blessing. It's even got some material that was written by her.
- Emma Bull
- One of my favourite female authors, whose claims to fame are her novels War for the
Oaks and Bone Dance. Emma has also written Freedom and Necessity
with Steven Brust, and she has been part of the band Cats Laughing and is one half of
the Flash Girls. If you haven't heard their
music, order the stuff now!
- Pat Cadigan
- Pat Cadigan has written some of the best and brightest of the modern day's cyberpunk works,
and she's got a bright future ahead of her.
- Orson Scott Card
- While OSC is known primarily for his Ender Wiggins's books, he's also written the
Alvin Journeyman books as well as a terrific time travel novel called Pastwatch:
The Redemption of Christopher Columbus.
- Jonathan Carroll
- Brilliant writer from the United States, who now makes his home in Britain, and is known for
his eclectic fantasy and horror works.
- C.J. Cherryh
- Cherryh seems to have been writing forever now, and is in the same league with Poul Anderson
and a couple of other writers, far as I'm concerned. She has created some terrific alien races in her
time, and is a master of this particular art of the science fiction writer. She isn't too shabby at the
rest of them, either.
- Charles de Lint
- A local, Ottawa fantasy writer, de Lint is famous for his Newford stories, and has got
a new novel coming out in the late fall. This is his own site. Very nice.
- Lynn Flewelling
- One of the newest fantasy writers out there, with only two books to her credit at the moment, Lynn
has written some lovely stuff.
- Mary Gentle
- Another of the British writers, Mary Gentle is best known for her Orthe books, as well
as for the White Crow books and short stories. Her real claim-to-fame, however, is likely the
book Grunts!.
- James P. Hogan
- One of the more innovative science fiction writers of the last twenty years, Hogan has written
some terrific books and is fondly remembered for the Gentle Giants of Ganymede series of
works.
- J. V. Jones
- Julie Jones is a British writer, living now in San Diego, who has written three novels, the Book
of Words, trilogy, and has her fourth novel set to come out in the fall. Julie's writing is some of the
freshest I've seen in quite some time, and has put a new spin on some of the old, classic fantasy plots.
- Tanith Lee
- One of the grand masters of the fantasy and horror genres, Tanith Lee has written over 50 books
to this point. I have at least eight favourites among them, so won't go into them in detail. Suffice it
to say that Tanith Lee is probably my favourite writer of horror works in the fantasy genre and has
written some brilliant novels.
- Anne McCaffrey
- The official homepage for Anne McCaffrey's legions of fans. McCaffrey is best known for her
Dragonriders of Pern series, but she has written a heck of a lot of other books as well.
- Patricia McKillip
- One of my favourite fantasy writers, McKillip's best novels have been her Riddle-Master
of Hed series and her two recent works, The Book of Atrix Wolfe and Winter
Rose. She's written quite a lot of short fiction in her time as well, and some of it has been
the best fantasy short stories I've read in ages.
- Linda Nagata
- Linda Nagata is one of the newest writers in the science fiction field, and her works have tended
to deal with cyberpunk themes and nanotechnology to this point. Her web site has some information
on her sf novels, some musings on sf, and other interesting links.
- Larry Niven
- Larry Niven is a mixed up one. He's written some really good science fiction, some really
mediocre stuff, and some really bad sf and fantasy. Mind you, with Jerry Pournelle, Niven writes
really well. My favourite books are The Mote in God's Eye, Ringworld,
The Legacy of Heorot, and a couple of others.
- Terry Pratchett
- One of my favourite writers of humourous fantasy, the other two being Andrew Harman and
Tom Holt. Pratchett's claim-to-fame is the twenty books (and still going strong) in the Discworld
series.
- Melissa Scott
- Melissa Scott has written almost a dozen books that are very much in the sf genre, and she
has a terrific imagination when it comes to plots, backgrounds, and the like. I'm most fond of her
Silence Leigh stories, but others will have different favourites from her most recent stuff.
- Robert Silverberg
- Agberg, as he's called in fannish circles, is one of my favourite authors of science fiction, and like
Anderson and some others, seems to have been writing forever. This fan-maintained page looks to
be pretty good so far, and will have a bit of development to come before it reaches the epic proportions
of a quality author homepage.
- Sheri S. Tepper
- One of the folks who seems to have been writing science fiction now for the longest time. I
remember Tepper fondly for her early works, all of which were fantasy, including The True
Game books and the Mavin Many-shaped works. My favourite of her sf works have
to be After Long Silence and Grass.
- David Weber
- Weber is only one of two sf and fantasy writers who are known for their military sf works, and
that I can read. I love Weber's Honor Harrington books, and can hardly wait for each new one
to come out. The web site has all kinds of neat information about Weber's stuff.
If you have an updates, corrections, or additions, please send me e-mail at jkahane@comnet.ca.
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