His first published science fiction story was "Bis zum Nullpunkt des Seins" ("To the Zero Point of Existence",... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Custer1) http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1920 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:26:20 GMT http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1919/t/David-J-Williams.html


The Wikipedia page is a bit stubby at the moment, but it covers the basics: "David J. Williams is an Anglo-American science fiction writer and video game writer. His debut novel, The Mirrored Heavens, was described as "Tom Clancy interfacing Bruce Sterling" by Stephen Baxter, and is part of the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Custer1) http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1919 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:52:31 GMT http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1916/t/Alan-Dean-Foster.html

Alan Dean Foster has been a remarkably prolific author over the years, as a look at his Wikipedia page shows. Not only do we get substantial numbers of "Commonwealth" and "Pip and Flinx" novels, plus trilogies, "Spellsinger", and plenty of stand-alone sf novels, he has done plenty of movie... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Custer1) http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1916 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:37:18 GMT http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1915/t/C-S-Lewis.html Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength. All three novels follow the story of philologist Elwin Ransom, though he is not the central... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Phalanx81) http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1915 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:36:57 GMT http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1914/t/John-Varley.html

I rather assumed we already had a thread going for John Varley, but it seems not - so, as part of our fifth annual month-long Author August celebrations, here we go. His Wikipedia page is as usual a good place to start:

He has written several novels (his first attempt, Gas... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Custer1) http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1914 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:18:39 GMT http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1913/t/Jack-L-Chalker.html



It is often surprising to discover who we don't yet have threads here in "Author Central" for - luckily each year's Author August extravaganza is a great help in filling in some of the more obvious gaps.


Personally, I've read and enjoyed a good number of Jack L. Chalker's novels, and looking at the list on his feeds@yuku.com (Custer1) http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1913 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:30:02 GMT http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1911/t/Karl-Schroeder.html

Our Fifth Annual Author August junket continues with another name new to this board, Karl Schroeder. As usual, on these occasions I head straight for Wikipedia, which starts by telling us "Karl Schroeder (born feeds@yuku.com (Custer1) http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1911 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:35:40 GMT http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1910/t/E-C-Tubb.html

It's way past time we had a thread for Edwin Charles Tubb - "a highly prolific British writer of science fiction, fantasy and western novels", is how his Wikipedia page describes him. And so, as part of our Fifth Annual 'Author August' marathon, here we are. I'm not surprised to... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Custer1) http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1910 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:52:51 GMT http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1909/t/Alison-Sinclair.html


In our continuing mission to seek out new authors and civilizations, our Author August 2009 trek brings us now to Alison Sinclair. Luckily, the lady herself supplies this brief biography:

The question "Where do you come from?" tends to elicit an itinerary: I was raised in Edinburgh, Scotland and Victoria B.C: since then I've lived... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Custer1) http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1909 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:09:04 GMT http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1908/t/Ben-Bova.html
Jupiter was my first exposure to Bova's work. I was fascinated by his approach to space exploration being used as a release valve for religious, authoritarian governments on... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Phalanx81) http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1908 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:54:05 GMT http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1907/t/Nicola-Griffith.html


As part of our 2009 Author August extravaganza, today is our day to begin the SFMB thread for Nicola Griffith, the British-born author of not just the above-pictured-novel, but Slow River too, and, as Wikipedia tells us, three rather good crime novels. Ammonite... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Custer1) http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1907 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:35:57 GMT http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1906/t/Colin-Kapp.html

I must confess to having a soft spot for this English sf writer, as some of the earliest sf paperbacks I bought for myself were the first fewNew Writings in SF anthologies, edited by John Carnell, and Colin Kapp's stories seemed often to be the stars of the show. The third issue, for example, cover-features his "The Subways of Tazoo".

His feeds@yuku.com (Custer1) http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1906 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:50:56 GMT http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1904/t/Kelley-Eskridge.html


A quick prowl around the appropriate Wikipedia page allows me to announce that Kelley Eskridge "is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her work is generally regarded as speculative fiction and is associated with the more literary edge of the category, as well as with the category of "slipstream"... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Custer1) http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1904 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:23:57 GMT http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1899/t/Sean-McMullen.html

Sean McMullen is an Australian writer of science fiction and fantasy, as the Wikipedia page says; despite its title, it looks as if The Time Engine falls into the latter camp, and indeed it is listed as volume four of "The Moonworlds Saga", after Voyage of the Shadowmoon, Glass Dragons. and... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Custer1) http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1899 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:16:41 GMT http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1896/t/S-M-Stirling.html


I must say that Steve Stirling is one of my favourite current sf authors, and a pretty versatile writer. His Wikipedia page starts off by saying that he "is probably best-known for his Draka series of alternate history novels and the more recent time travel/alternate history Nantucket series and Emberverse... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Custer1) http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1896 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:41:22 GMT http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1888/t/Philip-Reeve.html Wikipedia page bio for Philip Reeve is rather brief, it certainly tells us a lot about today's author:

Reeve studied illustration, first at Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology (CCAT - now Anglia Ruskin University), where he contributed a comic strip to the Student Union magazine, and later at Brighton Polytechnic (now the University of Brighton). Before becoming a... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Custer1) http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1888 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:43:33 GMT http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1887/t/Lucy-Sussex.html Today's August Author is Australia/New Zealand's Lucy Sussex who's Wikipedia Page informs us also writes Fantasy, Horror, and Detective Crime fiction in addition to SF.

Here's her Fantastic Fiction page.

Here's a photo of her:

... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (ljim2000) http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1887 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:24:41 GMT http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1886/t/E-T-A-Hoffman.html


Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann was born on January 24, 1776, and died on June 25, 1822, so isn't exactly your typical sf/fantasy author - the "A." stands for "Amadeus" apparently. Our old friend Wikipedia describes him as "a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Custer1) http://sciencefiction.yuku.com/topic/1886 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:30:38 GMT