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DrNefario
Posted 2014-03-17 9:10 AM (#6725 - in reply to #5992)
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Location: UK		My list of possible candidates for this challenge fall into three categories:

A) Authors I have discovered recently, who have relatively large unexplored backlists full of books in the Lists and Awards. This includes people like Ursula Le Guin, who I'd managed to miss until I read Left Hand of Darkness in my Hugo read-through two or three years ago. (I didn't even like that, much, but fortunately I loved The Dispossessed, which I read a bit later in the same project). Also Connie Willis, and, most recently, Patricia A McKillip.

B) People who I used to follow but inexplicably stopped reading. This includes (for shame) Gene Wolfe and Ken Macleod. I read pretty much everything by Wolfe up to 1994's Calde of the Long Sun, and then nothing at all since, not even the conclusion to the Long Sun series (which I've only recently acquired). My excuse is that he hasn't been well-served by publishers in the UK. Likewise with Macleod, I read everything up to 2002's Engine City, and nothing since. I'm debating whether I should allow Iain M Banks here, but I'm not sure I fell far enough behind. I'll probably include him if it makes the difference between finishing and not finishing.

C) People who I read and liked one or two books by over the years, but never really got stuck in. This includes Adam Roberts and Paul MacAuley, both of whom I read way back when and who went on to have good careers without me really paying attention.

And maybe Alastair Reynolds deserves a special D category: People I consider myself a fan of, but haven't really read all that much by.

Really, I see this challenge as a reason to read things I've been putting off for too long. I mentioned above that I'm going for 12 different writers. I'm already behind schedule, and I'm focusing on the WoGF right now, but I'm looking forward to getting going on this one.

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