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[mamadeb]

gacked from ratcreature

Remove the authors who aren't on your shelves and replace them with authors who are, keeping the list at ten.

Ratcreature's list:

Neil Gaiman
Philip K. Dick
Roald Dahl
Julia Alvarez
Jeanette Winterson
Audre Lorde
Octavia Butler
Nicola Griffith
Margaret Atwood
Marge Piercy

Mine:

Neil Gaiman
Philip K. Dick
Roald Dahl
Lois McMaster Bujold
Robert A. Heinlein
Terry Pratchett
Octavia Butler
Dorothy Sayers
Margaret Atwood
Marge Piercy

Comments

[sdelmonte]

Neil Gaiman
Ray Bradbury
Roald Dahl
Isaac Asimov
Rober A. Heinlein
Terry Pratchett
Diane Wynne-Jones
Stephen King
Dorothy Sayers
Colin Dexter
David McCollough

Re: Well, I finally broke down and did it...

[pewtergryphon.livejournal.com]

Neil Gaiman
Barbara Hambly
Lindsey Davis
Lois McMaster Bujold
Robert A. Heinlein
Terry Pratchett
Charlotte MacLeod
Dorothy Sayers
Dorothy Gilman
Patrick O'Brien

[zsero.livejournal.com]

Starting from mamadeb's list:

Neil Gaiman
Lois McMaster Bujold
Robert A. Heinlein
Terry Pratchett
Octavia Butler
Dorothy Sayers
Joan Slonczewski
Ken McLeod
Jonathan Kellerman
Joseph Caro (nobody said this was restricted to fiction, or to English...)

[quecojones.livejournal.com]

Tom Clancy (http://www.clancyfaq.com/)
Peter David (http://peterdavid.malibulist.com/Bibliography.html)
Bruce Schneier (http://www.schneier.com/index.html)
Knuth (http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/)
JRR Tolkien (http://www.tolkiensociety.org/)
Harlan Ellison (http://harlanellison.com/home.htm)
David Kushner (http://www.davidkushner.com/)
Larry Wall (http://www.wall.org/~larry/)
Rusel DeMaria (http://www.book.nu/author/Rusel+DeMaria)
Kernighan (http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/bwk/) & Ritchie (http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/) (these two go together because their most famous work is the C programmer's bible (http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cbook/))