Tuesday, July 18, 2006

LibraryThing

The 15 most popular authors in LibraryThing:

J. K. Rowling
Terry Pratchett
Stephen King
Neil Gaiman
C. S. Lewis
William Shakespeare
Anne McCaffrey
Isaac Asimov
Jane Austen
Orson Scott Card
Douglas Adams
Robert a. Heinlein
Anne Rice
Mercedes Lackey
Kurt Vonnegut

Interesting, isn't it, that 14 out of 15 have written at least some fantasy fiction, and maybe 11 of those are noted for writing primarily fantasy fiction. Incidentally, Martin is #72.

1 Comments:

At 11:50 AM, Anonymous Ben said...

I noticed that too... and had to wonder whether there might be some fairly large overlap between science fiction fans and the sort of people who enjoy spending hours inputing data about their book collections onto the internet.

Of course, I would plead guilty to both charges!

 

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