(January 8, 2017 at 11:22 pm)Fireball Wrote: Looking at the shelf in my library, I see Asimov, Bear, Benford, Brin, Budrys...Heinlein, Niven, Pournelle, Pratchett, E.E.Smith, Vance and Zelazny, for starters. There are many more, but these stand out. Try the Amber series from Zelazny for an example of some seriously good writing.
Ditto the shitto that! The Amber Chronicles starts off with a guy throwing furniture and dogs eating cars and then goes into some crazy crap.
Also Gordon Dickson and David Drake.