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[Thom Brannan]

Boy, I feel ignorant. I don't recognize any of these guys! (I am not so well read in certain areas of fiction)

most of the reads that i've grown to love were a complete accident. i started reading Robert B. Parker when it was the only book on the sub's library shelf left, and then i realized where i knew Spenser and Hawk from...the TV show, Spenser, for Hire! "holy crap," i said to myself, then devoured the entire catalog.

Jim Butcher writes the Dresden files novels (Spenser meets Merlin), Joe Lansdale wrote Bubba Ho-Tep, John Steakley wrote Vampire$ (which is eighty billion times better than the John Carpenter movie), Murphy and Sapir started the Destroyer series (on which there was a movie based, Remo Williams, the Adventure Begins) which i also stumbled upon, because i started reading the series on #100 after recognizing Remo Williams and Chuin's names on the book cover from that movie.

it's mostly accidental, and i love it.

[Zombie Zak]

Ahem - the "short" list (they only make it on this list if I've read and have 4 or more of their books on my shelves):

Robert Adams
Piers Anthony
Isaac Asimov
Robert Asprin
A.A. Attanasio
Ben Bova
Elisabeth Boyer
David Brin
Terry Brooks
Steven Brust
Jack L. Chalker
Arthur C. Clarke
Allan Cole
Glen Cook
Juanita Coulson
Brian Daley
Peter David
Charles de Lint
John DeChancie
Samuel R. Delanie
Stephen R. Donaldson
David Drake
David Eddings
Lloyd Arthur Esbach
Mick Farren
Raymond E. Feist
Kenneth C. Flint
Stuart Gordon
Simon R. Green
Barbara Hambly
Lyndon Hardy
Harry Harrison
Simon Hawke
Robert A. Heinlen
Frank Herbert
James P. Hogan
Robert Jordan
Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
Katherine Kerr
Katherine Kurtz
Morgan Llwelyn
Jean Lorrah
Eric Van Lustbader
George R.R. Martin
Julian May
Anne McCaffrey
Patricia A. McKillip
Mike McQuay
R.M. Meluch
Michael Moorcock
John Morressy
Janet Morris
Larry Niven
Andre Norton
Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.
Tim Powers
E. Hoffman Price
Melanie Rawn
Mike Resnick
Fred Saberhagen
Melissa Scott
Will Shetterly
Robert Silverberg
Christopher Stasheff
Joan D. Vinge
Lawrence Watt-Evans
David Wingrove
Janny Wurts
Roger Zelazny

HP Lovecraft and Edgar Allen Poe and others would go up there too, but I don't have as much of their material in printed format as I would like....oh well; time enough to conquer the world!

[Monchinski]

Ahem - the "short" list (they only make it on this list if I've read and have 4 or more of their books on my shelves):

Robert Adams
Piers Anthony
Isaac Asimov
Robert Asprin
A.A. Attanasio
Ben Bova
Elisabeth Boyer
David Brin
Terry Brooks
Steven Brust
Jack L. Chalker
Arthur C. Clarke
Allan Cole
Glen Cook
Juanita Coulson
Brian Daley
Peter David
Charles de Lint
John DeChancie
Samuel R. Delanie
Stephen R. Donaldson
David Drake
David Eddings
Lloyd Arthur Esbach
Mick Farren
Raymond E. Feist
Kenneth C. Flint
Stuart Gordon
Simon R. Green
Barbara Hambly
Lyndon Hardy
Harry Harrison
Simon Hawke
Robert A. Heinlen
Frank Herbert
James P. Hogan
Robert Jordan
Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
Katherine Kerr
Katherine Kurtz
Morgan Llwelyn
Jean Lorrah
Eric Van Lustbader
George R.R. Martin
Julian May
Anne McCaffrey
Patricia A. McKillip
Mike McQuay
R.M. Meluch
Michael Moorcock
John Morressy
Janet Morris
Larry Niven
Andre Norton
Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.
Tim Powers
E. Hoffman Price
Melanie Rawn
Mike Resnick
Fred Saberhagen
Melissa Scott
Will Shetterly
Robert Silverberg
Christopher Stasheff
Joan D. Vinge
Lawrence Watt-Evans
David Wingrove
Janny Wurts
Roger Zelazny

HP Lovecraft and Edgar Allen Poe and others would go up there too, but I don't have as much of their material in printed format as I would like....oh well; time enough to conquer the world!

Holy shiz-nit Zombie Zak! Do you ever get out into the sun man?

[Zombie Zak]

Holy shiz-nit Zombie Zak! Do you ever get out into the sun man?

Sure; well kinda anyways.  I just don't read nearly as much as I did when I was a wee lad.  Insufficient time, not enough brain space.  That's why I had to become a zombie - removable / scalable brain space.  When one fills up, just get another one!  Bingo bango bammo!

[JeJay]

Well i think you guys all know who my fav is! lol
 TWILIGHT, NEW MOON, ECLIPSE, and THE Host BY STEPHENIE MEYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Monchinski]

Holy shiz-nit Zombie Zak! Do you ever get out into the sun man?

Sure; well kinda anyways.  I just don't read nearly as much as I did when I was a wee lad.  Insufficient time, not enough brain space.  That's why I had to become a zombie - removable / scalable brain space.  When one fills up, just get another one!  Bingo bango bammo!

Sounds like a plan...sign me up!

[Zombie Zak]

Holy shiz-nit Zombie Zak! Do you ever get out into the sun man?

Sure; well kinda anyways.  I just don't read nearly as much as I did when I was a wee lad.  Insufficient time, not enough brain space.  That's why I had to become a zombie - removable / scalable brain space.  When one fills up, just get another one!  Bingo bango bammo!

Sounds like a plan...sign me up!

Everybody's welcome on the zombie boat! 
Don't need a ticket, don't need a key.
Everyone can ride up front for free.
All they got to do is feed, feed, feed me
Until their bodies suppurate and bloat.

[Coscom Entertainment]

Robert Adams
Piers Anthony
Isaac Asimov
Robert Asprin
A.A. Attanasio
Ben Bova
Elisabeth Boyer
David Brin
Terry Brooks
Steven Brust
Jack L. Chalker
Arthur C. Clarke
Allan Cole
Glen Cook
Juanita Coulson
Brian Daley
Peter David
Charles de Lint
John DeChancie
Samuel R. Delanie
Stephen R. Donaldson
David Drake
David Eddings
Lloyd Arthur Esbach
Mick Farren
Raymond E. Feist
Kenneth C. Flint
Stuart Gordon
Simon R. Green
Barbara Hambly
Lyndon Hardy
Harry Harrison
Simon Hawke
Robert A. Heinlen
Frank Herbert
James P. Hogan
Robert Jordan
Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
Katherine Kerr
Katherine Kurtz
Morgan Llwelyn
Jean Lorrah
Eric Van Lustbader
George R.R. Martin
Julian May
Anne McCaffrey
Patricia A. McKillip
Mike McQuay
R.M. Meluch
Michael Moorcock
John Morressy
Janet Morris
Larry Niven
Andre Norton
Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.
Tim Powers
E. Hoffman Price
Melanie Rawn
Mike Resnick
Fred Saberhagen
Melissa Scott
Will Shetterly
Robert Silverberg
Christopher Stasheff
Joan D. Vinge
Lawrence Watt-Evans
David Wingrove
Janny Wurts
Roger Zelazny

Hehe...Zak likes everybody.

[Zombie Zak]

Hehe...Zak likes everybody.

Yup!  Pretty much!

[Kody Boye]

Hmm, some of mine.

Christopher Rice
Stephen King
Tristan Egolf (who, sadly, will not be writing any more books. R.I.P Mr. Egolf.)
Cormac McCarthy

I can't think of a whole lot I read on a regular person. I've only read one of Egolf's and McCarthy's books, so... Yeah.

[Monchinski]

Boy, I feel ignorant. I don't recognize any of these guys! (I am not so well read in certain areas of fiction)

most of the reads that i've grown to love were a complete accident. i started reading Robert B. Parker when it was the only book on the sub's library shelf left, and then i realized where i knew Spenser and Hawk from...the TV show, Spenser, for Hire! "holy crap," i said to myself, then devoured the entire catalog.

Jim Butcher writes the Dresden files novels (Spenser meets Merlin), Joe Lansdale wrote Bubba Ho-Tep, John Steakley wrote Vampire$ (which is eighty billion times better than the John Carpenter movie), Murphy and Sapir started the Destroyer series (on which there was a movie based, Remo Williams, the Adventure Begins) which i also stumbled upon, because i started reading the series on #100 after recognizing Remo Williams and Chuin's names on the book cover from that movie.

it's mostly accidental, and i love it.

Thanks for enlightening me! Turns out I have seen most of the movies or TV versions of the written stuff...and isn't the guy who directed Bubba Ho-Tep slated to direct another Permuted book, John Dies at the End? Good stuff!

[Diamond]

Three of my favorite authors are, sadly, not with us anymore:  Richard Laymon, Mike McQuay (who wrote the brilliant novel Memories and the equally brilliant novelization of Escape from New York), and Ken Grimwood (who wrote one of my favorite books ever, Replay).

Other favorites: 
Guy Gavriel Kay (if you haven't read Tigana, you're no fan of epic fantasy )
George RR Martin
Edward Lee
Jack Ketchum
S. Andrew Swann/Steven Swiniarski
SM Stirling
Robert McCammon
Robert Charles Wilson
Dan Simmons
Nancy Kress
John Skipp & Craig Spector
Simon R. Green
Ken Follett
Kim Newman
Richard Morgan
Stephen Donaldson
C.S. Friedman
Glen Cook
Brian Stableford
Philip Jose Farmer
Ray Garton
Poul Anderson
James Herbert
Mike Resnick

[Kody Boye]

Ok, lemme rehash my list.

Christopher Rice
Stephen King
Tristan Egolf
Jack Ketchum
Richard Laymon

I've also recently read Brian Keene and Mary Sangiovani. THey're VERY good as well. : )

[Monchinski]

Got a chance to start rereading King's Running Man. What a book!

[Doug (Ancient) Wojtowicz]

Concurrence on Ahern, Vachss, Kirkman, Pelecanos (I love the Wire with all my heart) and Vonnegut.

Also, the Gar Wilson you truly love is a gentleman named William Fieldhouse, a true genius of the genre.

I also met the other great Wilson was Michael Linnaker, who I met personally and spoke at length with while we toured the Loop around the Chicago river. (He did some of the later Phoenix Force novels.)

Also, your favored Dick Stivers went by the ghost name G.H. Frost, but his true name was Robert Lyle Payne.