Science fiction’s stars of tomorrow - who do you rate?
The SF Signal gang have been running another of their ‘Mind Meld’ pieces. This time they asked a bunch of genre notables which up-and-coming writers they thought would be the next generation of sf’s big hitters. Here’s the final list, based on frequency of mentions:
- Paolo Bacigalupi (4 mentions)
- Darryl Gregory (4)
- Benjamin Rosenbaum (3 mentions)
- Cory Doctorow (3)
- Jay Lake (3)
- David Moles (3)
- Chris Roberson (3)
- Vandana Singh (3)
- Elizabeth Bear (2 mentions)
- Alan DeNiro (2)
- Alex Irvine (2)
- Ted Kosmatka (2)
- Paul Melko (2)
- Naomi Novik (2)
- Tim Pratt (2)
- Jason Stoddard (2)
- Karen Traviss (2)
- Scott Westerfeld (2)
We’re pleased to see two Futurismic alumni in that list - Jay Lake and Jason Stoddard. No mention of Tobias Buckell, though, which seems surprising to me - and not just because he used to blog here, either.
There’s also a lively discussion thread going on, with plenty of other writers pitching in with their suggestions and refutations. What about you guys - who would Futurismic’s readers add to (or remove from) that list?
June 12th, 2008 at 8:33 am
How to distinguish someone who’s “of today” from someone who’s “of tomorrow”? I mean, Cory Doctorow is not exactly an unknown rising star. His first novel was a good 7ish years ago. He’s certainly not much newer than Charlie Stross, who’s pretty good and maddeningly prolific.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
That was one of my thoughts, Dave - the criteria are pretty ambiguous, so it kinda became a “big up them what deserves it” thing, didn’t it? Hmmm … maybe I should run a poll here with some set limits. Maximum one published novel, maybe?
June 12th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
There three or four there that are already more then up and coming but your right about T.Buckley and there is also Jayme Lynn Blaschke who I think is up, running and coming.
June 12th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
On that list, I would definitely say that Vandana Singh, Paul Melko,
Benjamin Rosenbaum, Paolo Bacigalupi are rising stars.
-A.