Scifi authors or trends

[danaeris]

Cyberpunk is old, and William Gibson and Neil Stephenson have done some amazing stuff, but that's past tense.

Speaking strictly about hard scifi, I am looking for the future of scifi.

Anyone have any young, up and coming authors they think are the shit?
Anyone know of any particularly interesting trends going on in scifi right now?

I'm trying to get ideas about who I want to interview about what. Let me know! Expound, flame, discuss. It could be interesting!

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The Genetic Trend

[miss-mimsy.livejournal.com]

Nancy Kress and Octavia Butler are both interesting authors. They both use genetics as part of their stories.

Octavia Butler is more unique because she has written hard sci-fi and writes with minorities as her main characters.

Nancy Kress did some amazing society work with Beggars in Spain and Probability Moon.

I would highly reccommend both of them. They aren't 'brand new', but they are innovative, women, and writing what I would consider cutting edge sci-fi.

Hope that helps.

[auros]

You could try looking at SH and finding any authors who have published two or more stories with us. *g*

(Seriously, though, we are developing a rep as a publisher of "up-and-coming" authors -- one of our authors won the Campbell last year, and I think two or three are on the ballot this year.)

In terms of cyberpunk's descendants, you can't go wrong with Cory Doctorow...

[auros]

Oh, and you should be interested in everybody featured in Jay Lake's "Polyphony" collections (I and II).

[visage.livejournal.com]

Locus had a recent cover story harping about the return of Space Opera. But then they put Alastair Reynolds into that category, which I have a certain amount of difficulty with.

I don't know if he represents a trend, but I'd consider Reynolds to be a relatively new author who is the shit.

I'm in the MITSFS right now, and another keyholder is saying: "The British are certainly weirder than the Americans these days."