From
uitlander:
Oscar Wilde
John Fowles
C.J. Cherryh (but i haven't read it because it bored me)
Umberto Eco
John Le Carre
Stephen Jay Gould
Douglas Adams
John Mortimer (I think)
Terry Pratchett (lots)
J.R.R. Tolkein (boring)
Stephen Fry
Iain Banks
China Mieville
Ben Schott
Mike Burrows
From
rmc28:
Terry Pratchett
Arthur C. Clarke
Ursula K. Le Guin
Diana Wynne Jones
Robin Hobb / Megan Lindholm
Bernard Cornwell
Lois McMaster Bujold
Dick Francis
Georgette Heyer
Isaac Asimov
Michael Crichton
Edward Tufte
Richard Stevens
Donald Knuth
Greg Egan
So, 5 and 5...
C.J. Cherryh (but i haven't read it because it bored me)
Douglas Adams
John Mortimer (I think)
Terry Pratchett (lots)
J.R.R. Tolkein (boring)
Stephen Fry
Iain Banks
China Mieville
Ben Schott
Mike Burrows
From
Terry Pratchett
Arthur C. Clarke
Ursula K. Le Guin
Robin Hobb / Megan Lindholm
Isaac Asimov
Michael Crichton
Edward Tufte
Richard Stevens
Donald Knuth
Greg Egan
So, 5 and 5...
no subject
Date: 2003-09-30 23:45 (UTC)Douglas Adams
Terry Pratchett
J.R.R. Tolkein
Iain Banks
China Mieville (on loan from Mobbsy, so tenuous...) survive: I'll add
Jared Diamond
Dava Sobel
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (counting my shelves in Edinburgh, where most of my books are)
Robert Llewellyn
Ben Elton
Via
Surviving;
Terry Pratchett
Arthur C. Clarke
Ursula K. Le Guin
Isaac Asimov
Michael Crichton
Greg Egan, and I'll add
Peter Atkins (Chemistry textbook: unlikely to survive)
Martin C. Strong ("The Complete Rock Discography"; likewise...)
Douglas Coupland
Giles Smith