Who do you consider a Great Author of the last 50 years or so (first well-known work after 1970)? I'd like to get a feel for who's who in modern literature. Any language/culture. Fiction only.

Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 months ago

Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works · 7 months ago

William Gibson. He’s a huge influence on modern scifi

tias@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 months ago

Not just modern scifi but modern reality.

nomad@infosec.pub · 7 months ago

Thought so too, and looked it up, Burning Chrome is from the 80s.

Jarix@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

This was my first thought, but realize he’s probably not well known enough… Yet