Just for fun: Another question

[bookzombie]

Okay, my question yesterday got me more responses than I've possibly ever had to a post! So another question for you:

Which, if any, authors do you buy 'sight unseen', meaning which do you see they have a new book and immediately buy it without seeing reviews, hearing what friends think, perhaps without even reading the blurb?

A couple for me:

• Patricia McKillip - I've loved her clever, literate fantasy novels since reading the Riddle Master books as a teenager
• Terry Pratchett - the quality can vary but I'll always buy them anyway

Comments

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

Also Patricia McKillip - although when I get around to writing up The Bards of Bone Plain I am going to comment on how she doesn't really like writing villains, which can make her Dramatic Confrontations anti-climatic. Who else? I'll look forward to the next Frances Hardinge, and I have Flora's Fury on pre-order.

[imnotandrei.livejournal.com]

Mieville, Brookmyre, Banks, Delany, Gibson. I have yet to actually *pre*-order any of them sight unseen, but when it hits the bookstores, I'm there.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

The problem with Delany (for me) is that he keeps publishing books that aren't necessarily fiction, readily available in a nonspecialist store. Eventually I find the stuff at a good dealer's room (or, y'know, Dreamhaven), though.

I've kinda gotten out of the habit of buying physical books lately, but I know what you mean. People I'll read anything by? Kate Wilhelm, Pat Murphy, Ellen Klages, Ian Rankin, maybe a couple of others.

The list used to be longer, but some people are too prolific, or just ran out of ideas, or I'm just old now. I'm also leaving out the people whose books I'll read eventually; that's a longer list, too.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Tanith Lee, Steven Brust, Judith Tarr, and, before his untimely death, Roger Zelazny.

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

Kim Stanley Robinson.
Pat Murphy.
Karen Joy Fowler.

Certainly others, but that's what comes to mind.

[replyhazy.livejournal.com]

See, okay, just exactly what I was thinking about!!

I used to buy McKillip automatically and suddenly realized a year or two ago that I hadn't really liked any of her stuff for years. I've hit pause on her.

Writers whose books I would now buy without thought:

1. Dana Stabenow, mystery author who writes about Alaska. EXCELLENT characters.
2. Gail Carriger, whose Parasol Protectorate fantasy/steampunk novels have amused me no end.
3. Charlaine Harris -- whatever she does after Sookie Stackhouse will be Fine By Me, I am sure.
4. Katherine Kerr. Sadly I've been outbid on the con or bust Tuckerization for her next book!

Other authors who used to be on this list but are no longer: Lois McMaster Bujold, Margaret Maron.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, almost every author I could name where I have that sort of relationship is either dead or has stopped publishing books, so it's kind of moot. :(

Lately I've been reading the debut novel by Nick Harkaway, who has a second book out. I will for sure buy the second book sight unseen when I finish this one. If I like it as much, he will probably become one of those authors for me.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Neal Stephenson. Iain Banks, with or without an M. Mary Gentle. Manda Scott/M C Scott.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

Oh, reminded by the folks in your other post who dislike Gibson, William Gibson and Neal Stephenson are both like that for me, I think.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

None. I am not very author-loyal :(

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Lois McMaster Bujold

[lcohen]

lately, martha wells.

[annaoj.livejournal.com]

seconded!

[andrewducker]

Books:
Iain M Banks
Neal Stephenson

Comics:
Alan Moore
Neil Gaiman

[themis1.livejournal.com]

Barbara Hambly (under any name, in any genre).

And I second Lois McMaster Bujold.

[extrajoker.livejournal.com]

Peter S. Beagle and Philip Pullman