Hmmm, interesting. My books are not kept in order or even by author (though I'm attempting some sort of re-shuffle) with 2 (genre) exceptions - Heinlein and McCaffrey. I'm missing one Heinlein (I think, but can't quite recall which one) and a handful of McCaffrey - Dinosaur Planet and Decision at Doona and the sequels to Acorna (which never gripped me). Part of what I love about McCaffrey (and the old SF) *is* the straightforwardness of the plot. And Menolly and Killashandra are probably my favourite characters *g*, though I suspect the music element has a lot to do with that.
Heinlein was my intro to SF - Red Planet and Farmer in the Sky (8yrs old)and I was hooked. My intro to fantasy ... dunno. I really have no idea if I read Narnia or the Hobbit first. I know I'd read Lord of the Rings before I discovered Heinlein.
And then I accumulated secondhand books and worked my way through the SF titles in the adult section of the library and so common names on my shelves include, Asimov, Aldiss, Clarke, Blish, Van Vogt, 'Doc' Smith, Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan and Mars), Robert E Howard, Fritz Leiber, John Jakes, Niven and Pournelle, Vonda McIntyre, Stephen King, James Herbert, Barry B Longyear, Lee Killough and oh, so many collections of short stories and single-author anthologies and hundreds of other names of which I may only have one or two titles. Tigana, yes, 2/3rds of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. More recent names like David Gemmell and David Eddings, David Feintuch, David Weber, Mary Gentle, Karen Traviss and, of course, about 5ft of Trek fiction and probably a good 18 inches of Dr Who. *g*
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Date: 2007-05-09 08:39 pm (UTC)Heinlein was my intro to SF - Red Planet and Farmer in the Sky (8yrs old)and I was hooked. My intro to fantasy ... dunno. I really have no idea if I read Narnia or the Hobbit first. I know I'd read Lord of the Rings before I discovered Heinlein.
And then I accumulated secondhand books and worked my way through the SF titles in the adult section of the library and so common names on my shelves include, Asimov, Aldiss, Clarke, Blish, Van Vogt, 'Doc' Smith, Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan and Mars), Robert E Howard, Fritz Leiber, John Jakes, Niven and Pournelle, Vonda McIntyre, Stephen King, James Herbert, Barry B Longyear, Lee Killough and oh, so many collections of short stories and single-author anthologies and hundreds of other names of which I may only have one or two titles. Tigana, yes, 2/3rds of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. More recent names like David Gemmell and David Eddings, David Feintuch, David Weber, Mary Gentle, Karen Traviss and, of course, about 5ft of Trek fiction and probably a good 18 inches of Dr Who. *g*