My Favorite Bookstores and Books

This is some of the fiction that is important to me personally. Some bookstores I really like. A link to my favorite non-fiction and a link to what I'm reading right now. This page will change.

My Non-fiction books.

Support your local Independent Bookstores

The Other Change of Hobbit; The greatest SF bookstore, but I'm partial. Moe's; and Cody's are wonderful Bay Area bookstores.

What I'm Reading Now or what I've read this year?

My Favorite Authors (and some of their books)

• Eleanor Arnason, I loved her Ring of Swords and look forward to the sequel.
• Greg Bear, especially; Moving Mars and Blood Music.
• Michael Bishop
• Frederic Brown . He's a great pulp writer of gems like; What Mad Universe and The Lights in the Sky are Stars.
• Emma Bull . Writes great urban fantasy like; War for the Oaks and I hear she's a good musician too.
• Jonathan Carroll
• George C. Chesbro Really, if you can find them check out any of his Mongo mysteries. A dwarf ex circus acrobat, PhD criminologist, Martial Artist, private detective. How could you go wrong?
• Samuel R. Delany I tend to prefer his non-fiction, but it's all good.
• Bradley Denton. Read Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede, wackyness pure wackyness. If you prefer something darker, try Blackburn.
• George Alec Effinger.
• Harlan Ellison.
• James Alan Gardner .  He writes SF with some very interesting disability/disfigurement themes. Start with Expendable.
• Neil Gaiman of the comic book, Sandman fame and my favorite American Gods.
• William Gibson.
• Joe Haldeman. All My Sins Remembered, has one of the greatest endings in a genre that doesn't really "do" endings.
• Robert A. Heinlein Too much to say, still my favorite.
• Zenna Henderson The People Stories.
• Nalo Hopkinson Wonderul Caribbean influenced fantasy stories.
• Frederik Pohl . Especially his collaborations with C. M. Kornbluth and Gateway.
• Nancy Kress. Her take on money, prejudice, priviledge and what genetic engineering could do to them in the Beggars of Spain trilogy is rich and full.
• Ian McDonald. Scissors Cut, Paper Wrap Stone is the most exciting idea dense work I've read in a while.
• James Morrow . As a recovering catholic, I just love Towing Jehovah.
• Pat Murphy. I want to live in The City, Not Long After
• Frank M. Robinson. He's probably best known for his The Power. I loved the truly scary The Dark Beyond the Stars
• Kim Stanley Robinson. You either love or hate his Red Mars Trilogy. I love'em!
• Spider Robinson And hang out at Callahan's.
• Tim Powers.
• Lewis Shiner I really liked his comic book Hacker Files, and try finding Glimpses.
• Dan Simmons I recommend all of his Hyperion books.
• Joan Slonczewski, Door into Ocean.
• Neal Stephenson Go now, find SnowCrash. Read it. Thank me.
• Bruce Sterling.
• Theodore Sturgeon He wrote one of the ultimate "gimp" stories, More Than Human. Great book.
• James Tiptree Jr.
• Vonda McIntyre.
• John Varley Who's writing some fun Heinlein juveniles these days.
• Howard Waldrop Gotta read his short story, "Ugly Chickens"
• James White . His Sector General stories are great fun.
• Connie Willis. She's written some of the most horrific and some of the funniest stories I've read.