Martin, Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, N.K. Complement with the reading lists of George R.R. Showcasing some of the very best storytelling, worldbuilding, and character development in the field, find a list of Orscon Scott Card’s most beloved science fiction books below. Having read these works, I’m afraid I became impatient with most – though not all – contemporary literary writing. The characters and the worlds they lived in were the stars, not the writer. They wrote to carry the reader into vicarious lives that were worth living. Few of these writers wrote primarily to be admired or studied. They were my education in the field, but more importantly they helped shape my vision of what storytelling is, and what it needs to be in order to matter in the lives of readers.
I have reread all of them, and they hold up well.
“I love all five of these works I have chosen. In an interview with Five Books, the author extolled on the SFF books that most inspire him:
With the 1985 release of his Hugo and Nebula award-winning epic Ender’s Game, sci-fi writer Orson Scott Card cemented himself as a giant of the genre.
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