• Question: Who's your favourite author?

    Asked by anon-201684 to Sophia, Sarah, Meirin, George, Emily, Andy on 13 Mar 2019.
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      Andy Buckley answered on 13 Mar 2019:

      Maybe Neal Stephenson. His writing *style* isn’t the best, but his books are great fun and bubble with ideas. Cryptonomicon is a great introduction, before you hit the 2000-page Baroque Cycle. For style, I really enjoyed reading books by James Ellroy (the “LA Quartet”), and Jeff Noon (“Vurt” and others in that world). And for both style and ideas, Iain Banks: The Crow Road, and pretty much all his sci-fi novels are wonderful.

    • Photo: Meirin Oan Evans

      Meirin Oan Evans answered on 14 Mar 2019:

      I really like Carl Sagan’s book “Contact”, in which humanity establishes a communication with extraterrestrial life. Carl Sagan was an amazing scientist, communicator of science and decided to write a book. Up to you whether he counts as an author 😉

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      Sarah O'Sullivan answered on 14 Mar 2019:

      Aldous Huxley for thought provoking reads, Mitch Albom for touching stories and Richard Harris for historical fiction

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