Seen any good American science fiction lately?

[martin_wisse]

It's occured to me that I haven't found any really good American science fiction lately --the last two writers from those parts I discovered were Wil McCarthy and Kage Baker and that's a good five years or more back now. Are there any new stars I should know about?

Don't bother with Cory Doctorow: tried him and his impression of Bruce Sterling at his hucksterish, thinking that's a good role model wearied me.

What I want is somebody who writes novels I can sink my teeth in, proper science fiction that's more than just an entertaining fantasy, something that makes you look up from the page and go "christ what an imagination I got".

Science fiction I've read the past seven years.

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[troo.livejournal.com]

http://escapepod.org/

Not restricted to American writers, and it won't always give you stories you like, but it has a very good selection, and I have found some very thought provoking/emotional rollercoasters/quiet and insightful/intriguing etc. etc. stories there.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised there aren't more comments here. If my experience of Livejournal is any guide, there never will be. Twelve hours after you've poured your heart out, nobody will ever read your entry again. Perhaps another forum would yield more responses.

(Sorry, I have nothing useful to say about the question just yet.)

[stephenshevlin.livejournal.com]

Hmm. The following have impressed me and/or have good reputations:

David Marusek (he's started writing novels now)
David Louis Edelman
Elizabeth Bear
Paul Melko
Christopher Rowe
Paulo Bacigalupi (At the sentence and paragraph level he's great, but I always feel his stories are geared too obviously to making a polemical point).