(urth) Other SF writers?

[Michael Straight]

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