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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Richard Monaco & Avram Davidson

Today, Love All Books extends birthday wishes to authors Richard Monaco and Avram Davidson.

Richard Monaco is the author of the Parsival and the Leitus series.

Avram Davidson is the Hugo Award, the World Fantasy Award, and Edgar Award winning author of many fine books.

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Ann Maxwell & Robert Bloch

Today, Love All Books wishes the happiest of birthdays to authors Ann Maxwell (AKA A.E. Maxwell and Elizabeth Lowell) and Robert Bloch.

RITA Award winning author Ann Maxwell began her career writing science fiction and has been nominated for the Nebula Award seven times (once coming within one vote of being a finalist).

Hugo Award, Bram Stoker Award, and World Fantasy Award winning author Robert Bloch is perhaps best known for his 1959 novel Psycho.

Didn't some guy named Hitchcock turned into a movie <sarcasm>that almost no-one has heard of</sarcasm>.

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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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