Bob Shaw is a highly regarded SF writer. I have a handful of his books in my collection, but have not gotten into any of them yet. I am thinking of starting with the Orbitsville series as I have them all and hear they are pretty good. I also really want to check out the Ragged Astronauts at some point. I would ask for suggestions, but no one reads this blog anyways, ha!
He has some pretty nice covers to his works as well:
Dave Wolverton is an author who most people know for his contributions to some of the Star Wars novelizations. However, his writing runs deeper than that, with a handful of titles and covers to his name. I recently picked up a copy of On My Way to Paradise (last picture) and I am extremely excited to read it. Seems like a gory Halo-type of adventure. I am all game for that!
Here are some covers now:
Cordwainer Smith aka Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger has quickly become one of my favorite SF authors of all time. I am currently reading his "best of" collection now.
Cordwainer mostly wrote short stories and only one complete novel (Nostrilia) that was an expanded version of previously written stories. However, his contributions to the realm of SF are nothing but rich.
He died in 1966 and his works have still withstood the test of time in my opinion with the expansiveness and interconncetedness of his stories largely focusing on the Instrumentality of Mankind - or man's attempts to interact with space.
He also led a very interesting life having a PhD in poly sci and working in espionage and mind control/psychological warfare for the US gov. I think he is extremely underappreciated in the modern SF community.
Let's look at some of the beautiful covers to his excellent works now:
Taking a look at some of the amazing cover art found on the sci-fi and fantasy novels written by the prolific writer C.J. Cherryth. I still have to dive into this author's work and I think I will start with the Cyteen series since I have all three in the series unless anyone has any better suggestions.
Gregory Benford...another hard SF classic author with a bunch of titles to his name. I think "Across the Sea of Suns" is going to be my first read by him soon since I have a number of cover variants.
Another fellow scientist-turned-author...Arthur C. Clarke. While I do own many of his titles and covers (there are a multitude), I have not really dived into most of his works. Let me know if you have an opinion of which titles or series I should start with. Cheers!
An entire catalog of spooky covers comes from the mind of Andrew Neiderman. I am hoping to dive into more of his work in recent months after I finish my summer reading list and prepare for autumn.
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