Though two-thirds of the month of December remain, I have found myself contemplating and structuring some of the year end posts that I so love to write and to read: best books, favorite films, best SFF cover images, the announcement for the annual SF Experience non-challenge, resolutions for the new year. And while contemplating those largely book-based discussions I have started thinking about authors that I haven’t read but for one reason or another are on my list of authors I would like to read.
And that got me to thinking about who it is that you may not have read but would like to.
I imagine we all have authors whom we’ve had every intention of reading but time and other book and non-book demands have worked against that happening. With the recent death of Anne McCaffrey, an author whose work I have talked about reading for years, this once again came home to me.
In these heady days of the closing of one year and with the optimism of a new year on the horizon, I thought it might be fun to discuss the authors we want to try to read in the next year. With the approach of two science fiction related reading experiences my list is probably going to be SF-heavy, but please don’t think this post is just about SFF authors. I would love to know which authors have been hovering over your shoulders for years just waiting for you to discover their work and if there are any recent ones that have caught your eye but have yet to catch you opening one of their books.
Continue reading Ignorance Lost: authors you would like to read for the first time
