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SallyStrange,
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10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:

Ursula Le Guin
Kim Stanley Robinson
Octavia Butler
N. K. Jemisin
Becky Chambers
Iain M. Banks
Martha Wells
M. R. Carey
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vonda McIntyre


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Eliot_L,
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10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:

Terry Pratchett
Brandon Sanderson
Neil Gaiman
Piers Anthony
Brian K. Vaughan
Warren Ellis
Garth Ennis
Kieron Gillen
Bryan Lee O'Malley
Matt Fraction

Gosh that was harder than I thought it would be. I felt like using #GraphicNovels might be cheating but I guess I don't read a ton of longer series otherwise.

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elmyra,
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10 authors marginalised on at least one axis of whose books I have read at least 5 and am broadly happy recommending:

Neon Yang
Martha Wells
N. K. Jemisin
Alix E. Harrow
T. Kingfisher
Charles Stross
Alexis Hall
Naomi Novik
Ursula K. LeGuin
Yoon Ha Lee

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mrcompletely, (edited )
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ODY-C by Matt Fraction and Christian Ward

A gender twisted retelling of the Odyssey. Currently unfinished. This is the most innovative, extreme example of I've seen yet in mainstream-ish

mrcompletely,
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@autumnleaves yep his work is always sharp and creative. I wish they'd continue this work though the second one was a harrowing read

mrcompletely,
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@factolvictor the first collected volume is just purely amazing. The second one should be covered in trigger warnings a mile thick. And unfortunately the series is unfinished. But it's still great.

maxthefox,
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Launched my third book! In 2234, a multi-species expedition explores a 'glass planet' in poorly-charted space. Iraklijs the human and his alien comrades uncover a precursor installation full of riches, secrets, and dangers, altering understanding of the Silent Empire, and perhaps the whole central Oval. Basically dungeon crawl, best read after Origins or Marathon for context.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/85822/stardust-labyrinth

Wraithe,
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10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:

Robert Lynn Asprin
Somtow Sucharitkul
Jo Clayton
Tanith Lee
John Varley
Diane Duane
Stephen Brust
Nancy Collins
Lemony Snickett
Barbara Hambly

(That was made trickier by my self imposed not wanting to duplicate any of the authors in @SallyStrange list, which cost me an easy 4 😀)


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Wraithe,
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@LPerry2 @SallyStrange The whole “Windrose” series or at least the main books “The Silent Tower”, “Silicon Mage” and “Dog Wizard” and then the first two of the “James Asher” series (“Those who hunt the night” and “Traveling with the dead”)
She’s got a TON more books which I need to get caught up on lol

LPerry2,
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@Wraithe @SallyStrange Yeah, I think her vampire series ran about 19 volumes. She mostly writes mysteries now, but every once is a while she revisits her fantasy series by writing "further adventures"--novellas set in one or another of her fantasy worlds. You can find them on her website.

SFRuminations,
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Robert J. Sawyer (1960-) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?346

L, Tom Kidd, 1992; R, uncredited, 1994

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SFRuminations,
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In the office -- with cat friend -- attempting to write...

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tombofnull,
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Rosie's lumbering, tank of a beast.

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JimmyShelter,
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What game has the best planet generators for swashbuckling style science fiction?

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nyrath,
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I like the FATE based Starblazer Adventures. Alas it is out of print

https://rpggeek.com/rpgitem/44696/starblazer-adventures

SFRuminations,
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Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?155

L, Vicente Segrelles, 1985; R, Tim White, 1982

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SFRuminations,
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@waarismijnhoofd

I am not saying he is not a good artist. I am saying I do not care for his work because of my personal tastes.

I enjoy the more surreal/collage side of SF art -- Paul Lehr, Richard Powers, Anita Siegel, Wojtek Siudmak, Atelier Heinrichs et al.

I tend not to read comic books in any form. Not for me.

SFRuminations,
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@waarismijnhoofd For things I enjoy, definitely check out the site. These are just birthday posts and as I do them year after year after year, I change up the art, etc. and it does not reflect my personal tastes.

SFRuminations,
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Charles Moll's cover art for the 1977 edition of John Jakes' Brak the Barbarian (1968)

MarkRDavid,
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@SFRuminations

Pretty sharp haircut for a barbarian... 😆

SFRuminations,
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George Collyn (1937-2002) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?13009

L, Paul Lehr, 1970; R, Frederic Marvin, 1968

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SFRuminations,
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dance_along_the_edge,
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"The Head" was later reprinted in the Bloch collection Such Stuff As Screams Are Made Of, which can be read here with a free account:

https://archive.org/details/suchstuffasscrea0000bloc/mode/1up

SFRuminations,
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@dance_along_the_edge Thank you. I'll link it. Feel free to join the discussion on the site!

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Boosts appreciated.

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strypey,
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@jsundman
> It's set in a world that's a mashup of Orwell's 1984 & Reagan's 1984 and run by an unholy cabal of fascist theocrats & pan-surveillant techbro transhumanists. I wrote it in 2008, but look around. It's about today

This!

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