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Authors

I dare say this page will get unwieldy in time and need breaking up. As I find the I will add the home pages of some of my favourite authors, and as time allows, lists of the books they have written.

While my own interesting lie in fantasy and computers I will be more than happy to put in others related links if you want to sent them to me.

Science Fiction and Fantasy authors

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Terry Pratchet:

Anne McCaffrey

Transworld and Anne McCaffrey
[ www.annemccaffrey.org ] Official Anne McCaffrey website
Oooh, hints of a Pern Movie / TV series!

Mike Philbin
A friend of mine and a daemon with 3D grahpics.

Visit Mike's site - the official Hertzan Chimera
(May redirect to his blog), or to Hertzanchimera at Horror Quarterly
Mike Philbin's blog

Bill King

Trollslayer, the official Bill King website
Author of the Warhammer Gotrek & Felix Novels, amongst others

Others:

Fantastic Fiction
Bibliographies for over 4000 authors. Use the browse menu on the left to find an author by surname, or use the search boxes on the right to search for an author or book

Information on over 80,000 books. Throughout the site, just click on a book to see its cover picture, description and publication details

The latest titles. Check their author's page, or for a complete list see their 'New Books' pages
Fantastic resources - a-z of fantasy artists, authors etc. Just go see!

Computers and reference

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Elizabeth Castro
Web programming and design books
Rod Stephens, author of Ready-to-Run Visual Basic Code Library
Tips, Tricks and Workarounds for Better Programming.
Visit his site at: VB-Helper.com
Sandee Cohen - Flash books etc
Steve Krug. ~ DON'T MAKE ME THINK A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability"

Others

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Brian Lumley
Books include "Return of the Deep Ones and other Mythos tales", and the Wampyre books

Favourite Authors and their books

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Really I should give this entry a section of it's own, but for now I'll stick it here.

Like everything else on Ackadia, when it gets too unwieldy I'll have manic week and re-write it all into something rather more organised...

Anne McCaffrey...

Yep, read and own nearly every one.
Along with Terry Prachett and closely followed by Terry Brooks and David Gemell, she is my favourite author.

This list is (mostly) from the inside cover of Acorna's Rebels
The Official [ www.annemccaffrey.org ] Anne McCaffrey website does all this and far, far more, only better!

PERN / DRAGON series...: DragonFlight; DragonQuest; DragonSong; DragonSinger: Harper of Pern; The White Dragon; DragonDrums; Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern; Nerilka's Story & the Coelura; DragonsDawn; The Regenades of Pern; All the Weyrs of Pern; The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall; The Dolphins of Pern; Red Star Rising: The Second Chronicles of Pern (US = DragonsEye); The MasterHarper of Pern; The Skies of Pern; Dragon's Kin (with Todd McCaffrey)

CRYSTAL SINGER BOOKS: The Crystal Singer; Killashandra; Crystal Line

TALENT SERIES: To Ride Pegasus; Pegasus in Flight; Pegasus in Space

TOWER AND THE HIVE SEQUENCE: The Rowan; Damia; Diamia's Children; Lyon's Pride; The Tower and the Hive

CATTENI SEQUENCE: Freedom's Landing; Freedom's Choice; Freedom's Challenge; Freedom's Ransom

THE ACORNA SERIES: Acorna (with Margaret Ball); Acorna's People (with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough); Acorna's World (with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough); Acorna's Search (with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough); Acorna's Rebels (with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough); ... (more to come, I believe)

PMT, written with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough: Powers That Be; Power Lines; Power Play

DINOSAUR WORLD: ...

INDIVIDUAL TITLES (need to set a sub-section for the brain-ship ones, I reckon!): Restoree; Decision at Doona (think this has sequals now); The Ship Who Sang; Get off the Unicorn; The Girl Who Heard Dragon's (Pern wasn't it ? Need to check!); Black Horses for the King; A Gift of Dragons

To come... Terry Pratchett listing

I won't be cliche and say I'm his greatest fan because there's a world of manic obsessives out there, but I have been reading his books since the early 80's and even after two decades I still think he's one of the greatest authors EVER.