Discovered Authors 2011

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Connavar

So 2011 i have discovered:
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Brecht ***
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The stars are 1 to 5 is how interested i am to read them next after the first book,play. Not how i rated their work.

Little surprised at your rating on Brecht. This may depend on what you have read of his? I read and greatly enjoyed Life Of Galileo, which to me is a great work of Drama....or for that matter, what about Cacucasian Chalk Circle or The Threepenny Opera? Mother Courage I didn't like as much nor The Good Person Of Szechuan. I studied some of these incidentally as part of German class and even recited a poem by Brecht as part of the Goethe competition we have here. Sadly I did not win this prestigious event...

[Connavar]

Originally Posted by GOLLUM

Little surprised at your rating on Brecht. This may depend on what you have read of his? I read and greatly enjoyed Life Of Galileo, which to me is a great work of Drama....or for that matter, what about Cacucasian Chalk Circle or The Threepenny Opera? Mother Courage I didn't like as much nor The Good Person Of Szechuan. I studied some of these incidentally as part of German class and even recited a poem by Brecht as part of the Goethe competition we have here. Sadly I did not win this prestigious event...

I read Mother Courage which i thought was themes wise interesting but not a great drama. So *** rating is for that work and can get more respect,admiration when i read Life Of Galileo for example.

I just thought compared to Ghosts by Ibsen and Waiting For Godot by Beckett his play was lacking as a great drama.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Connavar

I read Mother Courage which i thought was themes wise interesting but not a great drama. So *** rating is for that work and can get more respect,admiration when i read Life Of Galileo for example.

I just thought compared to Ghosts by Ibsen and Waiting For Godot by Beckett his play was lacking as a great drama.

Well, as per my post, Mother Courage and Good Person of Szechuan are my least favourite of the Brecht dramas. Life Of Galileo is really very good....

Waiting For Godot is great and Ghosts I've not actually read yet.

[Fried Egg]

So far I've discovered:

Fred Hoyle
Joe Haldeman

Right now, I'm discovering:

Tim Powers.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Fried Egg

Right now, I'm discovering:

Tim Powers.

Lucky you. He's another whose ouevre I'm close to completing....

[drosdelnoch]

One that I'm tipping is Elspeth Cooper, she'll be out in June and I have to say that I really enjoyed her debut.

[planetocean]

This year haven't discovered anybody yet but last year I discovered mother daughter authors P.C. CAST AND KRISTIN CAST.

[AE35Unit]

So far I've discovered William Hope Hodgson and Algis Budrys

SF Addict: Discovered an author-Algis Budrys

[woodsman]

Read The Creator today by Clifford. D. Simak. Loved it, a different take on time-travel. Will be on the lookout for some more of his work for sure.

[nomadman]

I haven't discovered too many new authors this year, since I've pretty much made a concerted effort to get through my massive backlist of unread books, which I've estimated might take me a good five years to work through given my current reading rate. Recently though I've been exploring the other works of many of the writers mentioned on the excellent but now defunct Fantasy Masterworks list and, generally, enjoying them immensely. Last Call, White Apples and The Armageddon Rag have all proved to be worthwhile reads, whilst I have high hopes for The Course of the Heart, Mother London and The Haunted Woman, the latter being a book I'm particularly looking forward to.

[Lemmy]

One I would like to recommend is Tom Egeland, a norwegian writer. I kinda discovered him last year, but since I just signed up here, I'll put him on my 2011-list anyway.

I first started reading a book called Guardians of the Pact, a book in the same style as Dan Brown's books that evolves around a mystery concerning egyptians, vikings and a mummy. It wasn't too interesting, though, so I quit about halfway through. Still, he has written other books.

I picked up Circle's End, the prequel to Guardians and read it more or less in one sitting. I say prequel, but it was published long before Guardians. The funny thing is a lot of people compare him to Dan Brown, but Circle's End was written two years before Dan Brown wrote DaVinci Code. But Angels & Demons was written a year before Circle's End, so who ripped of who isn't easy to tell. What I do know is that Tom Egeland is a much, much better writer than Dan Brown.

Anyway, what really got Tom Egeland popular over here in Norway was the third in the series: Gospel of Lucifer. Circle's End was great and Guardians of the Pact decent, but Lucifer... now that's a story. I can't think of any bad parts in the entire story. Even the ending was pretty aweome. Plus, he even managed to keep it somewhat realistic the whole time even if you can imagine what it's about with a title like that.

Then there are his other books. I know some have been translated to english, but I have them in norwegian. Sorry if I use the wrong english title. I'll look up the correct title if you want me to. But anyway, let's see...

- Night of the wolf: Terrorists attack and take over a tv-studio and keep everyone hostage for 24 hours. Quite creepy stuff, and was turned into a mini-series on tv here in Norway.

. Troll Mirror: (so not the correct title, sorry). Not entirely sure, but it's something about a married couple who lets some stranger live with them, only to discover he's not quite what he appears to be. Pure horror in many ways.

- Ragnarok: One of his more interesting books. A married couple go on a vacation, but loose control of the car and crash. When they wake up, they make their way to the nearest village only to find it's populated by vikings. They try to run back to the car, but strangely there's no sign of the car, path or anything or anyone else from the modern world. Whoopsie...

- Ouija board: Mostly a normal story about a serial killer, but has some decent supernatural elements too.

He does have more books than these, but these should get you started. Some of them have been translated to english, so what are you waiting for?

[AE35Unit]

Add Walter M Miller to the list- just read a 1954 novella called Death of a Spaceman, very touching. My only question is, is there a Walter M. Miller Jr who also writes SF, or are they one and the same?

[Tansy]

Peter V. Brett
Kim Harrison
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

[Norlan]

There is a new author with a book called Drylor coming out later this month. Google Ryan Tomasella, he is kinda underground atm but I'm excited to read this book it seems quite interesting. Currently there isn't a wikipedia page but if you google "Drylor the first artifact" you will find the fan facebook page for it until it comes out

[rdenning]

I am a fair way through The Affinity Bridge by George Mann and it is absolutely MY type of books. Blending history with fantasy it recreates a Victorian world rather different from that which did happen.
Excellent book - really enjoying it and will be reading more. IT is great when you find an author in whose world you want to spend time with.