Science Fiction Authors Needed (SFAN)

I am currently reading two books as I often read multiple books concurrently. I read books that my nephews and nieces call “serious books” or “hard to read”. I don’t like the term “serious book". I prefer to say they are a slow read. All the books I read are serious, if not, why bother?

Being a naturally lazy person, I don’t like to maintain this level of effort over the many weeks required to finish a slow read. My solution is to read another book purely for entertainment between chapters of the slow read book. I am reading “The Next Convergence”, by Michael Spence, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics. The other is an ebook (Kindle Edition) “Convergent Space”, by John-Paul Cleary. Both are excellent reads, I will probably read two more SciFi titles before I finish the economics book. The similarity of titles is pure coincident, the two books have nothing in common.

I am always looking for new names to add to my SciFi authors list. I will need approximately 24 new SciFi titles for 2012. Looking at the list, it is dominated by British authors. Following Mr. Cleary on Twitter @ConvergentSpace I have found a whole new group of British SciFi writers to follow. Sure, the British writers got a jump start with that Shakespeare guy then they got some cross channel influence from Jules Verne (French), then H.G. Wells, but we’ve had plenty of time to catch up. Where are the American authors, the Canadians or Australian?

This is a list of the authors I follow, alphabetic by last name. You may note many missing great writers, such as, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C Clark, Phillip K Dick, Robert Heinlein, Frank Herbert and Kurt Vonnegut.  I only included active writers. I am looking for new titles.

Douglas Adams

Ian Banks

Stephen Baxter

Greg Bear

Ben Bova

Ray Bradbury

Jack Campbell

Orson Scott Card

CJ Cherryh

John-Paul Cleary

Ian Douglas

Greg Egan

William Gibson

Joe Halderman

Peter Hamilton

Paul Mcauley

Jack McDevitt

Ian McDonald

Larry Niven

Paul Graham

Frederik Pohl

Geoff Ryman

John Scalzi

Neal Stephenson

Charles Stross

Vernon Vinge

Ian Watson

David Weber

Fay Weldon

Robert Wilson

I need to include Bernard Cornwell, he is not a SciFi writer, but I really like his stuff.

I am looking to extend my reading list of SciFi authors. Anyone have recommendations?  Need to build a library of ebooks for my new IPAD. With retirement I have a more relaxed world view with a lot of hammock time to fill.