Reading Habits

BK's Reading Habits

I read a lot, mainly Science Fiction and Fantasy, but if I'm given a book I'll read it no matter what the content. In the two genres above my favorite authors are Anne McCaffrey and Terry Pratchett. Other favoured authors are:

Douglas Adams	Brian W. Aldiss	Issac Asimov	Orson Scott Card
Stephen Donaldson	Gene Wolfe

In my web surfing I've some found useful reference points to Science Fiction authors, these are:

Douglas Adams

Author of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the other four volumes of this trilogy. He's slso written two books around a character called Dirk Gently. More details can be found at Douglas Adams - a Science Fiction Writer?

The Hitch-Hiker's Guide Series a 'Trilogy' in Five Parts

The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy -
'People of Earth, your attention please... Plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a Hyperspatial Express Route through your Star System, and regrettably your planet is scheduled for demolition.'
For Arthur Dent, earthling and homeowner, a severe case of planning blight is the overture to a remarkable set of travels, guided en route by an equally remarkable book, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
© Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Life, the Universe and Everything
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Mostly Harmless

Dirk Gently Books

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency -
What do a dead cat, a computer whizz-kid, an Electric monk Who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a Chronologist over 200 years old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet) and pizza have in Common?
Apparently not much, until Dirk Gently, self-styled private investigator, sets out to prove the fundamental interconnectedness of all things by solving a mysterious mystery, and eating a lot of pizza - not to mention saving the entire human race from extinction along the way (at no extra charge).
To find out more, read this book (better still, buy it then read it) - or contact Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
© Douglas Adams
The Long Dark Tea-Time of The Soul

Brian W. Aldiss

Details about Brian W. Aldiss can be found at Brian W. Aldiss

Issac Asimov

One of the giants of Science Fiction who will be sadly missed following his death. Further details can be found at A catalogue of Issac Asimov's Books

Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Cards writings vary from pure science fiction with books like "Ender's Game" to pure fantasy with 'The tales of Prentice Alvin Maker'. Further details can be found at Orson Scott Card or at The Worthing Saga

Stephen Donaldson

Best known for his Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Donaldson has just completed 'The Gap Into...' science fiction series.. Further details can be found at Doug's Library - Stephen Donaldson, Stephen R. Donaldson or Stephen Donaldson Homepage

Anne McCaffrey

Anne McCaffrey's best known books are the Pern Series about dragons, although this series started with a fantasy basis it has over the yearsmerged fantasy and science fiction. She has also written pure science fiction in the form of 'The Ship who ..' series of books. One of the things that she has been doing quite a bit over the last few years is collaborating with some of the younger female authors around. This has provided a number of very good books, some in 'The Ship who ..' series and other series.
For more information on Anne McCaffrey take a look at the following links:

Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett on the other hand writes almost pure fantasy with a distinctly comic twist. All of his best known books take place on The Discworld. The Discworld is, to say the least a little unusual, to quote from 'The Colour Of Magic',

'Great A'Tuin the turtle comes, swimming slowly through the interstellar gulf, hydrogen frost on his ponderous limbs, his huge and ancient shell pocked with meteor craters. Through sea-sized eyes that are crusted with rheum and asteroid dust He stares fixedly at the Destination. In a brain bigger than a city, with geological slowness, He thinks only of the Weight. Most of the weight is of course accounted for by Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon and Jerakeen, the four giant elephants upon whose broad and startanned shoulders the disc of the World rests, garlanded by the long waterfall at its vast circumference and domed by the baby-blue vault of Heaven.'

For more information on Terry Pratchett take a look at the following links:

Gene Wolfe

Further details on Gene Wolfe can be found at Gene Wolfe Web Page

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