YESTERDAY’S BOOK-MEME POSTING produced requests for more. Maybe there’s something to it after all! Reader Jim Hohnbaum emails:

Glenn, could you please recommend some science fiction authors? I devoured the stuff (Clarke, Asimov, etc.) from the late 50’s through the mid 70’s until marriage, career, children, and so on. When I went back to the bookstore look, it seemed from glancing at the racks that the field had been taken over by fantasy works. Some pointers to authors would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Well, reader Joshua Kay has emailed to endorse two titles I’ve recommended before:

I just finished Old Man’s War, and have started Weapons of Choice. I enjoyed the first, and very much like the second (about 80 pages into it).

Anyway, thank you, for whatever its worth!

Both of those are quite good. Here’s an earlier post with quite a few book recommendations.

I’m also a big fan of Greg Egan. His Permutation City and Diaspora are among the best hard science fiction I’ve read in recent years, and the opening pages of Permutation City are some of the best writing in science fiction.