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Who do you consider a Great Author of the last 50 years or so (first well-known work after 1970)? I'd like to get a feel for who's who in modern literature. Any language/culture. Fiction only. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Bonus points for any books you believe are classics from that time period. Any language, but only fiction please.

I'm really excited to see what Lemmy has.

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[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

            
              John Scalzi - Old Man's War series and The Interdependency series
Dennis E. Taylor - Bobiverse

[–] Firipu@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago

I'm a big John Scalzi fan. Whenever one of his books release, it's basically xmas for me. There have been a few less than stellar books, but overal they are very enjoyable.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Scalzi - the first few books yes, afterwards I just lost interest and read them for the sake of reading them.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

For me I enjoyed both of Scalzi's series, the story written in a plain language but it's still exciting and captive, with some plot twists added.

Each series is set in different universes with their own limitations.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Dennis E. Taylor - Bobiverse

That was pretty fun except the 4th book.