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Who do you consider a Great Author of the last 50 years or so (first well-known work after 1970)? I'd like to get a feel for who's who in modern literature. Any language/culture. Fiction only. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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Bonus points for any books you believe are classics from that time period. Any language, but only fiction please.

I'm really excited to see what Lemmy has.

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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago

Andy McNabb

[-] Chump@hexbear.net 2 points 7 months ago

How in the hell has George Saunders not been brought up wtf?

[-] evanstucker@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Daniel Suarez "Daemon" series was fantastic!

[-] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

His later stuff hasn't lived up to it, although his asteroid mining series is pretty cool.

[-] Aztechnology@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Tad Williams low key you get no GOT or GRRM without him. If you ever read the memory, sorrow and thorn series of books you basically see where much of the inspiration for GOT came from

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[-] ShadowRam@fedia.io 2 points 7 months ago

Robert Munsch

[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 months ago

off-beat:

Vikram Seth (polyglot) – A Suitable Boy
Ryszard Kapuściński (journalist)

[-] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

A Suitable Boy is such an amazing novel. It captures India and it’s complexities really well.

[-] anonochronomus@hexbear.net 2 points 7 months ago

Thomas Pynchon and Don Delillo

[-] plantedworld@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Terry Pratchett. Brandon Sanderson has a nice essay about Pratchett.

https://reactormag.com/terry-pratchetts-discworld-might-be-the-highest-form-of-literature-on-the-planet/?wptouch_preview_theme=enabled/

[-] Redderthanmisty@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 7 months ago

I've been loving Andy Weir's space trilogy (The Martian, Artemis, Project Hail Mary). I haven't been able to put his books down, and another one of his stories is currently in production for a film.

[-] daina@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

No love for Dave Eggers? A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius was so so excellent, and there were sentences in You Shall Know Our Velocity! that made me weep with joy.

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