My favorite authors of Science Fiction
This document contains an uncomplete list of my favorite SF authors (books in english and french). The ranking is completely subjective, of course.I gave some examples of my favorite books from those authors. This may be dramatically incomplete as I limited myself to usually a maximum of three books. Instead of single novels, some titles may be the title of a series.
| Name | Book Titles | |
|---|---|---|
| ****** | Asimov, Isaac | Foundation Triology, Empire Serie, Robots serie, The End of Eternity, The Gods Themsleves |
| ****** | Heinlein Robert A. | The Moon is a harsh Mistress, Double Star, Job: A comedy of justice, Starship Troopers... |
| ***** | Adams, Douglas | The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| ***** | Brin, David | Glory Season, The Uplift serie (Sundiver, Startide Rising, The Uplift War) |
| ***** | Card, Orson Scott | Ender's Game, Pastwatch: The redemption of Christopher Columbus |
| ***** | van Vogt, Alfred E. | Null-A, The weapon Makers |
| ***** | Vinge, Vernor | A Fire Upon the Deep, A deepness in the Sky |
| **** | Barjavel, René | Le Voyageur imprudent, La nuit des temps, L'enchanteur |
| **** | Bear, Greg | Eon, Eternity, ... |
| **** | Bordage, Pierre | Les guerriers du silence |
| **** | Clarke, Arthur C. | 2001: A space Odyssey, Rendez-vous with Rama, The Fountains of Paradise |
| **** | Huxley, Aldous | A Brave New World |
| **** | Le Guin, Usrula K. | Earthsea |
| **** | McCollum, Michael | Antares, The Makers (Life Probe) |
| **** | Orwell, George | 1984 |
| **** | Vance, Jack | Demon Princes, Alastor |
| *** | Cherryh, C. J. | Cyteen, Downbelow Station |
| *** | Dick, Philip K. | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheeps, We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, Minority Report |
| *** | Egan, Greg | Permutation City |
| *** | Gibson, William | The Difference Engine, Neuromancer |
| *** | Herbert, Frank | Dune |
| *** | McCaffrey, Anne | The Dragon Riders of Pern |
| *** | Verne, Jules | 20000 lieues sous les mers, De la Terre à la Lune |
| *** | Wells, H. G. | The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds |
| ** | Banks, Iain M. | The Culture serie |
| ** | Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451 |
| ** | Brunner, John | Stand on Zanzibar |
| ** | Foster, Alan Dean | The Last Starfighter |
| ** | Pohl, Frederik | Gateway |
| ** | Reynods, Alastair | Chasm City |
| ** | Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein |
| ** | Silverberg, Robert | Majipoor, The Book of Skulls |
| ** | Sima,. Clifford D. | City, Way Station |
| ** | Simmons, Dan | Hyperion |
| ** | Zelazny, Roger | Chronicles of Amber |
Personal Ranking based only on what I read� not to be understand as real author ranking because I did not read everything from many of those authors and may just have been unlucky in my (usually random) choice of title when browsing the library or the bookshop.
The order is alphabetic within a star category.
The ranking means roughly:
| ****** | Beyond 5 stars... |
| ***** | Several books among my all-time favorites |
| **** | Many books I liked a lot and/or at least one book among my all-time favorites |
| *** | Several books I liked a lot |
| ** | At least one book I liked a lot, or several I enjoyed and remember |
| * | At least one book I enjoyed |
Wait... there is nobody with one star in the list. This is on purpose, because there are many 'one star' authors - some may even merit another star - with many books that provides entertainment and fun, but they did apparently not stay in my memory when writing this list... (a sign that I enjoyed less or that it was long ago (avid reader since more than 20 years)). So better no names than an unfairly uncomplete list.