Top 10 New Sci-Fi/SF Authors?

Dukebytes asks: "I am looking for the new RAH/Piers Anthony/Roger Zelazny/Weis & Hickman etc..., of the world. I have read just about everything I could find on King Aurthur, all of the Dragon Lance stuff, and all or most of the 'old school' hardcore. I don't know, I have maybe 4000 books at home, most of them Scifi/SF. I am looking for some new stuff. I haven't bought any kind of book other than techie for more than 2 years. I just keep reading the ones that I have over and over and over. What are you guys reading? If it is a series, please list ALL of the books in it!"

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Re:Sci-Fi: Trashy romance novels for geeks

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Fascinating. Simply fascinating.

I guess you've never read William Burroughs, Phil K. Dick, William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Theodore Sturgeon, Harlan Ellison, Thomas Disch, etc.

REAL sci-fi is not campy adventure stuck in the future (or past or whatever). Real Sci-Fi is philosophy and/or satire masquerading as escapist fiction. It just happens to be set in the future, or an alternate universe, or something else that is not our own world.

Oh, and Aldous Huxley wrote Sci-Fi....that's what Brave New World is. So did Ayn Rand, George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, etc.

Your ignorance does not a dissertation make. Just because A World Out Of Time and Moon is a Harsh Mistress seem sexually or socially deviant (which you say as if such things are "bad") does not mean they necessarily are, nor does it men that thye don't have value. So Heinlein is a Libertarian. So was Ayn Rand, George Orwell, Alduous Huxley, and a good many more. If you think Heinlein is "head in the clouds" you must think Ayn Rand's philosophy that you should NEVER submit your own desires for the sake of others NO MATTER WHAT is completely and utterly off the wall.

No, most Sci-Fi is NOT appropriate for kids...plenty of it is simply too complex for kids to understand and a lot more is just too adult. However, to say that all sci-fi is trash because it condones behavior and ideas that YOU are to damned INTOLERANT to accept as OTHER PEOPLE'S CHOICES is ignorant in the least, and fascist when you get right down to it.