Inspiring SFF Books

The latest Mind Meld column at SF Signal collects answers to the question What SF/F/H book (or books) inspired you the most? which was posed to a group of authors.

Their answers:

1. Dan Koboldt:
1. Robert Jordan The Wheel of Time
2. Michael Crichton Jurassic Park
3. Frank Herbert Dune
4. Robin Hobb Farseer Trilogy
5. Patrick Rothfuss The Name of the Wind
2. Nicole Cushing
1. Thomas Ligotti Teatro Grottesco
2. Anonymous The Nightwatches of Bonaventura
3. Sadegh Hedayat The Blind Owl
4. Roland Topor The Tenant
5. The work of Bruno Schulz, Witkacy, and Mário de Sá-Carneiro
6. Hermann Ungar The Maimed
3. Jeremy Szal
1. George R. R. Martin Game of Thrones
2. Stephen King
3. Karen Traviss Halo: Glasslands
4. M. Darusha Wehm
1. Nathan Lowell Golden Age of the Solar Clipper series. Writes Wehm:

Beginning with Quarter Share, the series follows Ishmael Wang as he navigates the world of interstellar cargo hauling first as a green, unskilled recruit through to running his own ship in the “final” book, Owner’s Share.

5. Anatoly Belilovsky
1. Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire
6. Dawn Bonanno
1.  Mercedes Lackey Valdemar series.
7. Amy Sisson
1. Eleanor Cameron The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet.
2. Laurent de Brunhoff Babar Visits Another Planet.
3. Poul Anderson Tau Zero
8. Kate Heartfield
1. Pat O'Shea The Hounds of the Morrigan

I thought this was a very interesting list. I look forward to checking out Lowell's Solar Clipper series, which sounds right up my alley. The Hounds of Morrigan also sounds pretty cool from the brief synopsis you can find at the original link.