No ones mentioned David Webber.
Eric Flint is good too.

Nylund is above par.

bIleSmeh DaH DuDorjaj yo' qij Dujmey!

E.E Doc Smith
David Weber
Alan Dean Foster
Chris Roberts yes "That Chris Roberts" the Wing Commander universe rocks so much I consider it a literary effort
Anne Mccaferty
Orson Scott Card
Jack Chalker
John ringo
maybe a little david drake now and again
John Dalmas (the regiment)

From the A.P. story...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Stanislaw Lem, a popular science fiction writer whose novel "Solaris" was filmed twice, died Monday in his native Poland, his secretary said. He was 84.

Lem died in Krakow, Wojciech Zemek told The Associated Press. Zemek did not give other details or the cause of death, citing only Lem's advanced age.

Lem was one of the most popular science fiction authors of recent decades to write in a language other than English, and his works were translated from Polish into more than 40 other languages. His books have sold 27 million copies.

His best-known work, "Solaris," was adapted into films by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and by Steven Soderbergh in 2002. The latter starred George Clooney and Natascha McElhone.

His first important novel, "Hospital of the Transfiguration," was censored by communist authorities for eight years before its release in 1956 amid a thaw following the death of Josef Stalin.

Lem's other works include "The Invincible,""The Cyberiad,""His Master's Voice,""The Star Diaries,""The Futurological Congress" and "Tales of Prix the Pilot."

In Requiem...

gutting. Lem was a true visionary, an original contributor to the sci-fi genre who helped give it real literary credibility (and there's precious too little of that)

funnily enough i watched both Solaris versions last weekend, Tsarkovsky's brilliant interpretation and that rather dull Clooney version. Apparently, Tsarkovsky gave almost no direction to his actors during the filming of Solaris because he wanted them to be convincingly surprised and confused by events.

if i could remember his name ?

he wrote

nights dawn trilogy
second chance at eden

and two others

UPDATED! ; )

Peter F. Hamilton

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the path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and of the tryannys of evil men.blessed is he who, in the name of chariety and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brothers keeper and the finder of lost children. and i will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poisen and destroy my brothers. and you will know my name is the lord when i lay my vengeance upon thee

Edited by - MACC on 3/30/2006 5:52:56 PM

I believe it was Eric von Lustbader that you are thinking of

no i remember it was........

Peter f. hamilton

Orson Scott Card and Alastair Reynolds.