Who's your current favourite author?..............

[Spade]

I'll always have a soft spot for Frank Herbert because of Dune and God Emperor of Dune. Right now, I'm been eagerly awaiting everything John Scalzi
releases.

 

[Highlander II]

I regularly read Jim Butcher. Then I toss random others in as things strike my fancy.

 

[Pedro Del Mar]

Hugh Howey's rapidly rising up my list.

Although, a few nights ago I started to read Doctor Sleep by Stephen King. King was favourite for a couple of decades until I grew a bit bored with his writing. Doctor Sleep (so far) has got me gripped.

 

[biodroid]

Crooksy, its a great book

 

[clovis-man]

My favorite authors tend to be pretty static. Iain M. Banks and Alistair Reynolds have been my favorites for a fair time now.

I'm pretty much in the same boat here. But then I have to parse some out along the living or dead criterion. In the former I would add Neal Asher, C.J. Cherryh and Nancy Kress to Reynolds. In the latter I would include Charles Sheffield and Kage Baker with Banks. I'm trying to stick with a rough inclusion of those I might consider "current" as noted by the OP. Otherwise, I'd just be naming classic names such as Asimov, Herbert, Clarke, etc.

 

[Maximillian]

Jim Butcher, though he never answered my email =}
GRRM, the standard of the day, and surprisingly a name I didn't see as I scrolled down (albeit quickly).
James S.A. Corey. Look him up. Please.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

@Teresa Edgerton - Goblin Moon is so clever. 18c urban fantasy (I hope I've got the era right...)

 

[Heather Myst]

George R.R. Martin and Joe Abercrombie are my current favorites.

 

[biodroid]

Currently hooked onto Dean Koontzs Odd Thomas book, pretty good so far.

 

[Pedro Del Mar]

Currently hooked onto Dean Koontzs Odd Thomas book, pretty good so far.

It's quite an entertaining film

 

[Connavar]

My current favourite author has been the one who has stayed the longest in my fav author list. Since i have read so many different authors in the lasy 6,7 years fav author changed often in the beginning. I was new to many genres like SF,Fantasy,many classic lit when i joined this forum early 2007.

Jack Vance is the still the one i admire most, the one i have read most books of and the one i could read for many more years. Not only because he is a literary great but his imagination, his prose style, his worlds, his stories always being about what is human, no matter the colorful settings fit my taste, my prefered themes perfectly.

Im glad he lived so long that i could even send a fan letter, message to him that got to him through JV yuku forums, his family.

 

[Pedro Del Mar]

Crooksy, its a great book

Finished it the night before last - enjoyed it a great deal but found the end slightly formulaic

 

[Heather Myst]

Besides Martin and Abercrombie I need to add Michael J. Sullivan and Brent Weeks.

 

[Silver Owl]

Do they have to be publishing today or can they be deceased?

If they have to be publishing then probably China Mieville with Alastair Reynolds and Neil Gaiman nipping at his heels waiting for him to slip up.

If we can include deceased authors then Mervyn Peake and Emily Bronte definitely high up!

 

[Pedro Del Mar]

Do they have to be publishing today or can they be deceased?

Whichever, if they're your favourite author they can be from past or present

 

[Nechtan]

For current author I would pick Steven Erikson. Out of all the new authors I've read over the last 10 years I've returned to his books the most. Every Malazan Book of the Fallen has been read at least 3 times, Midnight Tides being the one I've reread most, maybe 5 times, and every book has gotten better with each reading, including the ones I wasn't sure about the first time round like Dust of Dreams and House of Chains. I love those eureka moments when everything clicks into place and you see what Erikson is trying to achieve, how the storylines are linked to each other and what themes Erikson is discussing.

I'll stop there before I start chuntering on about unreliable narrators, compassion vs certainty, philosophy, religion and politics, archaeology, anthropology and trope subversion amongst others.

 

[The Bluestocking]

Neil Gaiman is my very favourite contemporary novelist and Emily Dickinson is my all-time favourite poet.

Other perennial favourites:

• L.M. Montgomery
• Isaac Asimov
• J.K. Rowling
• Jasper Fforde
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Jane Austen
• Tad Williams
• Georgette Heyer

Current favourites ("current" defined as "in the last decade"):

• Cassandra Clare
• Benedict Jacka
• Simon R. Green
• Charlaine Harris
• Joe Hill
• Gail Carriger
• Isaac Marion
• Diana Gabaldon

Favourites that have fallen by the wayside (but I wouldn't object to picking up their books again):

• Anne Rice
• Clive Barker
• The Brontes
• T.S. Eliot
• James Herriot

My tastes has always ran the gamut of genres

 

[Connavar]

If more than one writer current fav is :

Jack Vance
Sylvia Plath
Lord Dunsany
Dashiell Hammett
Ken Bruen(actually active now)
Robert E.Howard
Edith Södergran

 

[althea]

My current,and forever favourite,is Robin Hobb.I do like Brent Weeks,Scott Lynch and George R R Martin,though not necessarily in that order.
Ray Bradbury is a marvellous story teller,I nearly forgot him.

 

[chongjasmine]

I like robin hobb. And Robert Jordan.