Authors, writing, and publishing links.
This is a small selection of sites and resources that I find of interest.
Enjoyable authors
- Alastair Reynolds - British science fiction writer and scientist
- Andy Remic - British grimdark, scifi, and fantasy writer
- Ben Bova - futurist and author of many classic scifi and hard scifi works
- Brandon Sanderson - author of the Mistborn series and much more
- Brent Weeks - creator of the Night Angel trilogy (eg Way of Shadows)
- CJ Cherryh - terrible site, but for a brilliant author of many scifi/fantasy classics (eg Chronicles of Morgaine)
- Dan Simmons - author of the superb Hyperion Cantos
- David Brin - scientist, and author of the Postman and the Uplift series
- Greg Bear - classic scifi (eg Eon) plus modern scifi/military sf including some Halo and Star Wars
- Iain M Banks - writer of Matter, Player of Games, and more scifi and space opera
- Joe Abercrombie - amazing fantasy author of the First Law trilogy (eg the Blade Itself)
- Joe Scalzi - writer of the superb Old Man's War and the disappointing Redshirts
- Joanna Penn - author of many thrillers, including the Arkane and the London Crime series
- Michael Moorcock - creator of Elric of Melnibone, one of the greatest fantasy characters ever
- Mur Lafferty - Hugo award winning author and podcaster
- Tobias Buckell - author of many fantastic scifi and fantasy works
- Ursula K LeGuin - the Earthsea Trilogy, what more needs to be said?
- William Gibson - scifi writer, responsible for the revelatory Neuromancer
Writing advice and industry chat
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