h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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The list will be updated every Wednesday, ish.
-OPD

How about:

Iain M. Banks (Sci-fi) / Iain Banks (General)
Ken Macleod (Sci-fi)
Arthur C. Clarke (Sci-fi)

Italo Calvino (General)

H.P. Lovecraft (Horror) - has an approved entry in the Guide at A258040
James Herbert (Horror) - has a guide entry at A223129

I'll post again if I come up with any more...

Azimuth

What about:
Science fiction/fantasy: Stephen Donaldson
David Eddings
Maggie Furey
Anne McCaffrey

A few more for the Sf/Fantasy list... (in no particular order)

Kim Stanley Robinson
Neil Stephenson
Anne McCaffrey
Peter F. Hamilton
Stephen Baxter
Robin Hobb

Articles on the first two will be forthcoming in due course.

Be seein ya B->

Could you add
Tom Clancy (General)
& Stephen Baxtor (Sci-Fi)

An article on Tom Clancy will be fourthcoming whenever I get round to it (about a week)

Ray Bradbury needs to be added to scifi/fantasy, definitely. Tanith Lee would be good, too, for fantasy, and there are two entries on Neil Gaiman - Imagery and Neil Gaiman at http://www.h2g2.com/A258662 and Neil Gaiman's Sandman at http://www.h2g2.com/A108606. And I claim the privilege of writing an entry on Isaac Asimov (I wouldn't mind cooperating; I just want to participate )

Fantasy
Ursula K. LeGuin
Susan Cooper
Robin McKinley
Madeliene L'Engle
Steven Brust
Piers Anthony
Marion Zimmer Bradley

Sci-Fi
Robert Heinlein
Piers Anthony

General
David James Duncan

Mystery
Robert B. Parker
Sue Grafton

Humor
P.J. O'Rourke

Gothic Horror
Anne Rice

Poetry:
Walt Whittman
EE Cummings

General:
Edward Abbey
Henry David Therou (sp?)

Henry David Thoreau, it is. I emphatically second E.E. Cummings and, from further up, Madeline L'Engle!

I'll cry if you don't add the following to the list:

Raymond Carver (General)
William Gibson (Sci-fi)
Torv Jansson (erm...difficult to categorise. He writes for kids, strictly speaking, but the "Moomins" series definitely
holds a lot for adults too).

I'll have articles for all the above posted as soon as I can get round to it...in fact I might start right away....

Hey how about Mark Twain, and Emile Zola- Fiction writers
I'm sure that Twain has at least one article, I think that it's approved, and also a book review on letters from the earth written by yours truley!

Have NONE of you ever read "Dune"? I'ts arguably one of the best SciFi books around. It was written by Frank Herbert, and I think you should definitely(?) add him to the list.

WB

Okay, okay. After a bit of nosing about, it became fairly clear that Dune was not absent from The Guide.

I still recon Frank Herbert should be put on the list (Under SciFi).

Who's With me!!!???

WB

Another for the sci-fi/comedy genre: Tom Holt.
Oh, and while I'm here, for comedy-drama: Kate Atkinson and for straight drama: Sebastian Faulks. And heck, for straight comedy Helen Fielding.
Is Tolkein in here? Cos he should be

I'd like to see some more poets. How about Robert Graves , Wilfred Owen, Ogden Nash?
Oh and for general fiction, can we add James Joyce and Angela Carter please.
MC

Would you consider adding;

Tom Robbins (General...or maybe Philosophy is better)
Bill Bryson (Humor and History of the English Language)
Milan Kundera (Life)
E. Annie Proulx (Life)

Thank-you.

I may have missed him, but didn't see Kurt Vonnegut on the list.
There is an article 'Kurt Vonnegut' at:
http://www.h2g2.com/A198713

and an Approved Article about 'Granfalloons' at
http://www.h2g2.com/A179589

He is mentioned in others that come up in a search, but I havent checked all of them. Please add him to the list.
Thank You.


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Grant Naylor

Rob Grant

Grant Naylor sci-fi/comedy

Rob Grant sci-fi/comedy

A very impressive list of authors all round,
but... am I the only person that finds Philip
K. Dick one of the most influential (not to
mention prolific) sci-fi writers?

Could you please add him to the list?

Cheers,
Ariadni