[ www.williamgibsonbooks.com ]
The guy oft credited with inventing the cyber punk genre. Also wrote a couple of X-Files episodes.
[ www.terrypratchettbooks.com ]
Probably best known for his long running Discworld series.
[ www.michaelmarshallsmith.com ]
'...a dark labyrinth of a book: shocking, moving and surreal. Violent, outrageous and witty - sometimes simultaneously...' read the quote on the back of his first novel Only Forward. So I bought it. Turned out to be one of those books where you feel like you've just discovered this amazing new world. He also publishes stuff that leans more to the horror genre under the name Michael Marshall.
The woman who brought the world Harry Potter. Which you may or may not consider to be a good thing.
[ www.coupland.com ]
Hard to describe. Girlfriend in a Coma will make you say 'well that's unusual' just when you least expect it. Nothing happens in Generation X but it really doesn't matter.
Now sadly deceased, Douglas Adams gave the world, amongst other things, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. A trilogy in five parts with more than that number of variants, sadly including that movie they made recently. His site contains a java version of the Hitch Hiker's text adventure game originally released in 1984. If you can work out how on earth you get the Babel Fish let me know.
Publishes Sci-Fi under the name Iain M Banks and [just] Fi under Iain Banks.
[ www.j-cg.co.uk ]
The quote on the copy of ReMix I have says 'William Gibson meets Quentin Tarantino'. Which is a pretty good description. The Arabesk novels are not so Tarantino.
modified:26th November 2007