Take this list of authors, remove those whose efforts do not grace your shelves, and bring the list up to ten by adding some more that do. New paragraph indicates newly-added authors.
William Shakespeare
Neil Gaiman
Thomas Pynchon
Stephen King
Cervantes
Jose Saramago
Lemony Snicket
John Fowles
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Margaret Atwood
Ummm...I'm a bit confused, actually. Am I supposed to take the original list, or Dave's new list, so that the original list ends up really altered as it courses through Blogistan? I suspect the latter, so I'll use Dave's list instead and follow the same directions. Dave's list is as follows:
William Shakespeare
Stephen King
James Lee Burke
Terry Pratchett
Robert Rankin
Mil Millington
Christopher Brookmyre
Dennis Lehane
Michael Chabon
Douglas Adams
OK, here is mine, with my added authors in bold:
William Shakespeare
Stephen King
Carl Sagan Terry Pratchett
Guy Gavriel Kay J.R.R. Tolkien George R. R. Martin Christopher Moore Charles Stross Michael Chabon
Michael Flynn
And hey, it now occurs to me that since most book memes can be morphed into music memes, I'll start the same thing, only with artists and composers represented in my CD collection:
Leonard Cohen
Van Halen
Pink Floyd
Hector Berlioz
John Williams
The Chieftains
Tangerine Dream
Van Morrison
Johnny Cash
Ralph Vaughan Williams
"Make your country...into a land that understands more than only war and
righteous piety. Allow space in your lives for more than battle chants to
inspire soldiers. Teach your people to...understand a garden, the reason for a
fountain, music."
-The Lions of Al-Rassan, Guy Gavriel Kay
We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just
to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we
spring.
-Cosmos, Carl Sagan.
"...[T]he people who really count are those who discover new ways of making our lives beautiful."
-Delius as I Knew Him, Eric Fenby
"Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any creative art. The water is free. So drink.
Drink and be filled up."
-On Writing, Stephen King
"We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching
of a space rocket."
