I love reading, but I really don’t get enough time to do that anymore. I've become enamoured of the the process of creating e-books. There's something about it that I very much enjoy.
Edgar Rice Burrough: Barsoom and Amtor
Burroughs wrote these in the early part of the last century, and a they can be challenging to modern readers, both for the writing style and the content. They’re straightforward action, mostly focused and beating the bad guys and getting the girl, who seems to spend a lot of time not understanding our poor hero’s intentions.
The Barsoom Series
The Amtor Series
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Lovecraft has a cult following, which is funny because he always wrote about cults. He takes a view of a universe in which humanity is not only insignificant, but stands on the edge of doom once beings greater than we take notice.
E.E. "Doc" Smith
Just happy adventure stories with strong, exceptional men doing strong, exceptional things. Lensmen became a sort of model for Green Lantern, with its interstellar police who is above the law. I'm not going to defend these as great writing. I'm not going to defend these at all. It's just very juvenile fun.
H.G. Wells
Wells is the Patron Saint of English Science Fiction. Verne might have been first, but Wells is the man who made it work. His books aren't always what you think. While he was an avid wargamer (he created what we consider one of the first tabletop wargames), he was a pacifist. War of the Worlds was a critique of British Empire building.
Raymond Chandler
This man writes like an angel. And tells sordid stories of sin and debauchery.