Here are some authors and books I recommend.  In most cases I recommend
most of the author's other works as well.  Authors I'm especially psyched about
are *'d.  Rightmost column is series (first book, if the series is ordered).
	-- Jamie Morris, 2007-02-27
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Allen, Roger MacBride
	The Ring of Charon			Hunted Earth

Anderson, Poul	
	Brain Wave
	Three Hearts and Three Lions

Asimov, Isaac
	The Edge of Tomorrow  (short stories)
	I, Robot  (short stories)

Baker, Scott
	Drink the Fire from the Flames		Ashlu

Banks, Iain M.
	Use of Weapons				Culture
	The Player of Games			Culture

*Brin, David
	The Postman
	Sundiver				Uplift
	The Practice Effect

Brunner, John	
	Stand on Zanzibar

*Brust, Steven
	Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille
	Jhereg					Dragaera Vlad Taltos

Bujold, Lois McMaster
	The Curse of Chalion			Chalion
	Shards of Honor				Miles Vorkosigan
	The Spirit Ring

Card, Orson Scott
	Ender's Game
	Hart's Hope

Cherryh, C. J.
	The Pride of Chanur			Chanur

Clement, Hal
	Mission of Gravity
	The Nitrogen Fix

*Cook, Glen
	The Black Company			Annals of the Black Company
	Sweet Silver Blues			Garrett
	The Dragon Never Sleeps
	The Swordbearer
	The Tower of Fear

*Duncan, Dave
	The Reluctant Swordsman			Seventh Sword
	Magic Casement				Man of His Word

Forward, Eve
	Villains by Necessity

Forward, Robert L.
	Dragon's Egg				Cheela

Gardner, James Alan
	Expendable				League of Peoples

Gaiman, Neil
	Stardust

Gerrold, David
	Chess with a Dragon
	A Matter for Men			War Against the Chtorr
	The Flying Sorcerers   (w Larry Niven)

Hambly, Barbara
	Those Who Hunt The Night
	The Ladies of Mandrigyn			Sunwolf and Starhawk
	Dragonsbane

Harrison, Harry
	The Hammer and The Cross		Hammer and Cross
	West of Eden				Eden

*Hodgell, P. C.
	God Stalk				Jamethiel Dream-Weaver

Hogan, James P.
	Code of the Lifemaker
	Endgame Enigma

Hughart, Barry
	Bridge of Birds				Master Li

Kerr, Katherine
	Daggerspell				Deverry

Keyes, Gregory J.
	The Waterborn				Children of the Changeling
	Newton's Cannon				Age of Unreason

Kingsbury, Donald			
	Courtship Rite

Kurtz, Katherine
	Lammas Night
	Camber of Culdi				Deryni Camber

Le Guin, Ursula
	A Wizard of Earthsea			Earthsea
	The Left Hand of Darkness		Hainish

Leiber, Fritz
	Ill Met in Lankhmar			Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser

Lisle, Holly
	Diplomacy of Wolves 			Secret Texts

Lovecraft, H. P.
	The Doom That Came To Sarnath

MacAvoy, R. A.
	Tea with the Black Dragon
	Lens of the World



Martin, George R. R.
	Dying of the Light
	The Armageddon Rag

May, Julian
	The Many-Colored Land			Saga of Pliocene Exile

McLoughlin, John C.
	Toolmaker Koan

*Niven, Larry 
	Neutron Star  (short stories)		Known Space
	Dream Park   (w Steven Barnes)		Dream Park
	Footfall   (w Jerry Pournelle)
	The Mote in God's Eye   (w Jerry Pournelle)
	Oath of Fealty   (w Jerry Pournelle)
	The Legacy of Heorot   (w Pournelle & Barnes)	

Pratchett, Terry
	Bromeliad Trilogy [Truckers, Diggers, Wings]	Bromeliad
	Moving Pictures					Discworld (#10)
	Small Gods					Discworld (#13)

*Powers, Tim
	The Anubis Gates
	Dinner at Deviant's Palace
	On Stranger Tides
	Last Call
	The Stress of Her Regard

Sheffield, Charles
	The McAndrew Chronicles  (short stories)
	Brother to Dragons

Shetterly, Will
	Witchblood

Stephenson, Neal
	Snow Crash
	Cryptonomicon

Stewart, Mary
	The Crystal Cave			Merlin

*Stross, Charles
	The Atrocity Archives
	The Family Trade			Merchant Princes

Swanwick, Michael
	Stations of the Tide
	The Iron Dragon's Daughter

Turtledove, Harry
	Agent of Byzantium  (short stories)
	The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump
	Between the Rivers

Vinge, Joan D.
	Psion					Cat
	The Snow Queen				Snow Queen

Vinge, Vernor
	A Fire Upon the Deep



Watt-Evans, Lawrence
	Touched by the Gods
	The Lure of the Basilisk		Lords of Dus
	Dragon Weather				Obsidian Chronicles

Weber, David
	On Basilisk Station			Honor Harrington

Williams, Walter Jon
	The Crown Jewels			Drake Maijstral
	Metropolitan				Aiah

Wilson, Robert Anton
	The Eye in the Pyramid (w Robert Shea)	Illuminatus!

Wolfe, Gene
	The Shadow of the Torturer		Book of the New Sun

*Zelazny, Roger
	This Immortal
	Lord of Light
	Jack of Shadows

Zimmer, Paul Edwin
	Ingulf the Mad				Dark Border