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Writers

The authors I read closely, filed by surname · 8 on record.

A 1 WRITER

Joe Abercrombie

Joe Abercrombie is a British fantasy author and one of the defining authors of modern grimdark fantasy. He is best known for the First Law world, which runs from the original First Law trilogy beginning with The Blade Itself (2006) through the standalone novels Best Served Cold, The Heroes, and Red Country and on into the later Age of Madness trilogy.

4 EPISODES

Joe Abercrombie

B 3 WRITERS

Iain M. Banks

Iain Banks (1954-2013) was a critically acclaimed Scottish author who achieved widespread success writing mainstream contemporary fiction under his own name and groundbreaking space opera science fiction as Iain M. Banks. He's Todd's favorite science fiction author.

2 EPISODES

Iain M. Banks

S.A. Barnes

S.A. Barnes is the horror pen name of author Stacey Kade. Writing as Barnes, she publishes deep-space horror with Tor Nightfire, including Dead Silence, Ghost Station, and Cold Eternity.

1 EPISODE

S.A. Barnes

Octavia E. Butler

Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) was a pioneering American science fiction writer, the first Black woman to win wide recognition in the genre and a MacArthur Fellow, known for Kindred, the Earthseed (Parable) novels, and the Patternist and Xenogenesis series.

1 EPISODE

Octavia E. Butler

C 1 WRITER

Elaine U. Cho

Elaine U. Cho is the author of Ocean’s Godori and Teo's Durumi. She is a former bookseller at Elliott Bay Book Company (Todd's favorite bookstore in Seattle).

1 EPISODE

Elaine U. Cho

D 1 WRITER

Matt Dinniman

Matt Dinniman is an American author best known for the wildly popular Dungeon Crawler Carl series, a comedic LitRPG that began as a self-published serial and was later picked up by Ace.

7 EPISODES

Matt Dinniman

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K 1 WRITER

Stephen King

The "King of Horror," Stephen King has published over 60 bestselling novels, including The Stand, The Shining, and It, that have collectively sold hundreds of millions of copies. He's Todd's favorite author.

10 EPISODES · 2 ESSAYS

Stephen King

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S 1 WRITER

K.X. Song

K.X. Song is a diaspora fantasy author with roots in Hong Kong and Shanghai, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her adult fantasy debut, The Night Ends with Fire, opens The Dragon Spirit Duology; she also writes young-adult fiction, including An Echo in the City.

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K.X. Song

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