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Two topics.
(1) At the April meeting it emerged that members have very different ideas of which sf and fantasy writers are worth following–and some members have evidently not even heard of writers I consider to be first-rate.
As a gesture towards discussion and better communication, I offer a few sf/f writers I consider notable. I have picked writers who are still writing; some of them I know better from their short stories than from their novels.
Canadian
Guy Gavriel Kay–slightly magical alternate history; literate, eloquent, passionate
William Gibson–an originator of cyberpunk; a stylist with a penetrating vision
Karl Schroeder–wide-screen far futures, playing off post-humans against low-tech humanity
Peter Watts–dark and powerful, exploring future technology and the nature of humanity with a real emotional punch
Other Nationalities
Iain M. Banks
Ian R MacLeod
Ken MacLeod
Nancy Kress
Terry Pratchett
Robert Reed
Alastair Reynolds
Gene Wolfe
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(2) My own novel Janus can be viewed (and pre-ordered) at http://chizinepub.com/books/janus.php
or at Amazon
I also note that four of the six Aurora nominees for best novel are from the same publisher, CZP.