Who do you consider a Great Author of the last 50 years or so (first well-known work after 1970)? I'd like to get a feel for who's who in modern literature. Any language/culture. Fiction only.

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Bonus points for any books you believe are classics from that time period. Any language, but only fiction please.

I'm really excited to see what Lemmy has.

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William Gibson. He's a huge influence on modern scifi

Thought so too, and looked it up, Burning Chrome is from the 80s.

This was my first thought, but realize he's probably not well known enough.... Yet