Who are your favorite fiction authors?

by **subtalus** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:37 pm

David Eddings
Clive Cussler
Jefery Deaver

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." -- H.P. Lovecraft
While I don't take the sombre and morose view of Lovecraft that madness or unilluminated retreat are the only possible results of macro-scale enlightenment, I do think it's plausible for such awakenings to catalyze a shift away from domesticity. Someday incredible "vistas of reality" will be opened through the piecing together of knowledge. That "assembly" will most likely occur away from civilization, on the techno-farm. And the means of that assembly will most certainly occur via the internet.

by **amazingmaeve** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:41 pm

Terry Pratchett

by **Psyncronized** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:23 pm

kooz wrote:
Lucidor wrote:Have you read anything by good ole mr. Lovecraft? My favorite story is probably Pickman's model.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pickman's_Model

It's only a few pages.

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." -- H.P. Lovecraft
While I don't take the sombre and morose view of Lovecraft that madness or unilluminated retreat are the only possible results of macro-scale enlightenment, I do think it's plausible for such awakenings to catalyze a shift away from domesticity. Someday incredible "vistas of reality" will be opened through the piecing together of knowledge. That "assembly" will most likely occur away from civilization, on the techno-farm. And the means of that assembly will most certainly occur via the internet.

Mr. Lovecraft was a pessimist.

But then again a lot of people really do not like to think, or know for that sake.

The feeling of correlations forming between previously disconnected pieces of knowledge is like a tiny moment of euphoria. Like the "AHA!" or "EUREKA!" it simply feels great.

Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan the barbarian.

Frank Herbert with his Dune series. Simply brilliant.

Iain Banks. Good writer.

Homer, you know that old nobodaddy from way back when who wrote all that Greek saga stuff.

Apart from that there's not much fiction on my shelf. Just more dry stuff that I can lift off the ground.

by **Eruname** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:37 pm

George Orwell (1984, Animal Farm)
Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)
R.A. Salvatore (contributed to the Forgotten Realms)
J.R.R. Tolkien (best-known for the Lord of the Rings trilogy)
Shakespeare (gotta love Hamlet)

by **d0rmancy** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 5:10 pm

Robin Hobb - assasin's apprentice series
She puts hints in that series and little facts that you are only explicitly told in the next series or the third. Great character developments, as they mature before your eyes. Wonderful series. Thoroughly recommended. Also. Boy named dave... unoftunately I don't recall the author (its an autobiography -_-'')

by **musicandscience** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 7:24 am

Shakespeare
Stephen King
Elizabeth George
Jeffrey Deaver
Jodi Picoult

Also, 'm a diehard Harry Potter fan (see my icon?

) and I also love Lord Of The Rings.

Who are your favorite fiction authors?

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