Science Fiction

Oddly enough, I've lately been reading more fantasy (and specifically old fantasy, like Clark Ashton Smith and Lord Dunsany) than sf, but I used to be a big fan of Poul Anderson, Larry Niven, and Robert Heinlein.* And Arthur C. Clarke, though he tended to not bother with plot IMHO. Also, I haven't followed Catherine Asaro's later books, but I read Primary Inversion in one sitting. And early William Gibson, though aside from All Tomorrow's Parties I haven't really followed him since the Sprawl trilogy.

* Yeah, I know all the ways he's problematic, but I actually preferred later works like The Number of the Beast and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. RAH said somewhere--maybe in Expanded Universe?--that he'd gotten fascinated with Donald Barthelme (i.e. postmodern metafiction), and it's always seemed clear to me that that's the sort of thing Heinlein was playing with in his last few works. But then, I'm the guy who thinks Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse: Dune are the best of Frank Herbert's series--Finally we get off that rock!--so YMMV.