(urth) Other SF writers?
Michael Straight
mfstraight at gmail.com
Fri May 23 10:01:11 PDT 2008
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> wrote:
> The best hard SF writer currently publishing right now is, IMO, Karl
> Schroeder, who deserves to be better-known than he is. _Lady of Mazes_
> deserved a Hugo; it was head and shoulders against everything else that
> year that was actually nominated. His current series, Virga, is more
> adventure and less thoughtful, but is still becoming quite good as it
> develops.
I'm in the middle of _Lady of Mazes_ right now and am very impressed
so far. He reminds me of my choice for best hard SF writer: Ken
MacLeod. I think his first two books, _Star Fraction_ and _Stone
Canal_are my favorites, and _Newton's Wake_ (which is probably the
closest in feel to _Lady of Mazes_), but everything he's written is
very good.
Rostrum
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