Gene Wolfe

Today, Love All Books wishes the happiest of birthdays to science fiction and fantasy author Gene Wolfe.

Gene Wolfe is the Nebula, World Fantasy, John W. Campbell Memorial, and Locus award winning author of many great books.

His Soldier of the Mist has long been one of my favorite books. It is the story of Latro, a Roman mercenary that—as the result of a head injury in battle in ancient Greece—forgets everything while he's sleeping, and how he copes with awakening with amnesia each day.

(Think 50 First Dates, just set in ancient times—oh, and not so funny!)

Wolfe is also the author of the extremely popular The Book of the New Sun series.

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Larry Niven

Today, Love All Books is, once again, a day late and a dollar short celebrating a birthday, this time the birth of science fiction and fantasy golaith Larry Niven.

Larry Niven is the Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula award winning author of countless excellent books.

He is perhaps best known for Ringworld—the book that is quite possibly the jewel in the crown of his Known Space series.

In addition, he has written a number of fine books with Jerry Pournelle (I can personally—and quite strongly—recommend Inferno, Lucifer's Hammer, and Oath of Fealty) and with Steven Barnes (I greatly enjoyed Dream Park). He's also written with a number of other authors (books that I haven't gotten to yet, but I'm willing to bet they are fantastic.)

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Dan Simmons & Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Today, the gang at Love All Books (okay, that gang's just me—Techsplorer) would like to celebrate the birth of authors Dan Simmons and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey.

Hugo-, Locus-, World Fantasy-, and Bram Stoker- Award winning author Dan Simmons has the honor of producing one of the most involving and thought provoking pieces of fiction I've read in, well, maybe ever (a description which here means: "Dan Simmons is the author of the the Hyperion Cantos: Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, and Rise of Endymion.")

Ernestine Gilbreth Carey is one of the twelve Gilbreth children that are the basis for the book she co-authored (with her brother): Cheaper by the Dozen.

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