I love lists. If you’ve ever seen the movie the Pillow Book – you should if you haven’t yet – you will know how beautiful lists can be. One day, perhaps, I will write my own Pillow Book, but for today I’ve decided to start by listing influences, authors who have had a large impact on me. I’ve limited myself to writers of relatively modern fiction (after about 1950) and this list is by no means exhaustive and is in no particular order.
- Frank Herbert
- Ursula K. LeGuin
- Sheri Tepper
- Anne Rice
- Neil Gaiman
- Neal Stephenson
- Alice Hoffman
- Nicola Griffith
- Kelley Eskridge
- Octavia Butler
- Clive Barker
- Philip K. Dick
- Mary Doria Russell
- Tom Robbins
- George Alec Effinger
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Carl Sagan
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- David Brin
- Roger Zelazny
Perhaps at some later date, I will add links to this lists, but for now I will leave it as is.
