HIT: Authors of Science Fiction for adults (Part 2)

[the willenbrinks <hank@CEI.NET>]

Philip Jose Farmer  _Riverworld_, meet all sorts of people from history

Poul Anderson

Nicole Griffin or Griffiths or Greene  _Slow River_  Believable, near
future

Mary Doria Russell  _Try the Sparrow_  Space travel to another planet

C. J. Cherryh  _Downbelow Station_

William Gibson, cyberculture

Madeleine L'Engle

Terry Pratchett, science fiction/fantasy

Greg Bear

Kathy Tyers

Mark Canter  _Embers from the Sun_  Consequences of implanting a
Neanderthal fetus in the body of a twenty century woman

Elizabeth Moon  _Hunting Party_, has series with a main character, Heris
Serano, _Sheepfarmer's Daughter_, fantasy

Jean Hegland  _Into the Forest_  Story about a world that ends not with
a bang, but a whimper, and how two sisters cope

Alan Steele  _The Jerico Iteration_, near future, post-apocolyptic

David Brin _The Postman_, forget the movie, post-apocolyptic novel, his
other work is a dandy too

Pullman  _The Golden Compass_

William Kottswinkle

Andre Norton

Stephen Brust

Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle  _The Mote in God's Eye_, "Hard" sf

Douglas Adams  _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_, and sequels,
Humorous sf

Emma Bull  _Falcon_, Characters are incredible

Steven King  _Dead Zone_

Diana Gabaldon  _Outlander_, _Dragonfly in Amber_, _Voyager_, _Drums of
Autumn_, futuristic romance and time travel

Frank Herbert  the Dune series

Zenna Henderson  _The People_, _The Anything Box_

Pamela Sargent  Two books about Venus, _Women of Wonder_, edited by her
_The Classic Years: Science Fiction by Women_, sf from 1940's to 1970's

Phoege Conn  _Starfire_

Janelle Taylor  _Starlight and Splendor_

Nancy Kress  _Beggars in Spain_, manipulations of genetics,  she has
written others with the same theme

David Weber  Has a series featuring Honor Harrington,  a woman captain
_On Basilisk Station_

George Lucas and his staff writers ?  Star Wars novels, especially _The
Truce at Bakura_, plus many others

Susan Willenbrink, Media Specialist
Jones Elementary, Conway, AR 72032
hank@cei.net

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