Today’s TTT is authors we’d like another book from, either because they’ve stopped writing series or they’ve inconveniently died. But first, a tease!

Hurtling back to town, in a red Porsche driven by a beautiful woman, with the song playing, I had the sense of standing on the brink of another world. I recognized the feeling, which, if anything, became stronger as the rain started falling and the convertible roof malfunctioned so we were unable to raise it. It was the same feeling that I had experienced looking over the city after the Balcony Meal, and again after Rosie had written down her phone number. Another world, another life, proximate but inaccessible. (The Rosie Project)

“What about this part at the end?” he said, then read aloud. “‘Can your heart stand the shocking facts about grave robbers from outer space?’ That’s monster movie stuff. His credibility flies out the window.” (Plan 9 from Outer Space)

(1) Neil Postman. Postman was a critic of how technological shaped society around itself, often to destructive ends: would that he were alive to witness what cellphones and social media have done to us! Reading Postman at an early age is why I didn’t buy a smartphone until 2017.

(2) Bernard Cornwell’s Copperhead series. He wrote three novels about a northern lad who found himself fighting in the Confederate army during the American Civil War, hired to guard a wealthy man’s son.

(3) Carl Sagan. Sagan would have been thrilled to witness the landing of the Curiosity rover and the James Webb telescope, and I have to wonder what the author of The Demon Haunted World would have made of internet-driven nonsense.

(4) Isaac Asimov. Asimov wrote about everything under the rainbow. I’m sure he’d be amazed to see the way computers & AI have grown since his death in 1992.

(5) C.S. Lewis. As with Postman, his thoughts on how society has changed so radcially would be interesting.

(6)) Will and Arial Durant. Autthors of magisterial The Story of Civilization series, comprehensive histories of different eras that covered art, politics, society, economics, intellectual life, etc. They stopped at The Age of Napoleon.

(7) Amelia Atwater-Rhodes. A writer of urban fantasy, Atwater-Rhodes published her first novel In the Forests of the Night at age 15. She may be the reason I know “The Tyger”. The books I’ve read by her have all concerned vampires.

(8) Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera, whose lovely The Awakening of Ms. Prim charmed me with its mix of philosophy and cozy village conversation.

(9) Anita Amirrezvani, who has written two historical fiction novels set in Persia. They both incorporated Persian poetry and literature into them, introducing me to the Shahnameh

(10) . S.E. Hinton. She actually wrote a novel for adults fifteen+ years or so ago. I loved her teen books growing up.