Date

2014-11-01

Featuring

Ben, Matt

Length

31:56

Category

Countdowns

Essential

2020-01-17

The start of an amazing countdown

Ben made an intro clip for the series.

Authors Who Received Mentions but No Votes

  • Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  • Alastair Reynolds
  • Cory Doctorow
  • David Eagleman
  • Hugh Howie
  • Joe Abercrombie
  • Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Lev Grossman
  • Hugo Gernsback
  • R. Scott Bakker
  • Scott Westerfield
  • Stephen Erickson
  • Ian C. Esslemont
7:20

Instantly, even with the first name, terror has struck me. Because I'm realizing, this conversation is gonna be so one-sided. It'll be good. I'll be good color commentary for you. So there might just be a lot of Ben reading lists and commenting, and me saying, 'Sounds like a nice guy.'

Authors Who Received One Runner-Up Vote

  • Bruce Coville (Jeremy Thatcher: Dragon Hatcher)
  • Patrick W. Carr
  • Kristine Cashore
  • Brothers Grimm
  • J Sheridan La Fanu
  • Jaqueline Moriarty
  • Robert Howard
  • Tom Clancy
  • Cindy Dees
  • Robert Aspirin
  • CJ Cherryh
  • Monica Hughes
  • Charles De Lint
  • Ken Scholes
  • Philip Pullman
  • Washington Irving
  • Seth Graham-Smith
  • Mark Twain
  • Harlan Ellison
  • Mikhail Bulgakov
  • John Mandeville
  • Laini Taylor
  • Robert Aikman
  • Stephen Donaldson
  • Jonathan Swift
  • Joe Haldeman
  • Nathan Lowell
  • Raymond E. Feist
  • Lynn Reid Banks
  • Charles Williams
  • T.H. White
  • SM Stirling
  • Apostle John
  • Maggie Shayne
  • Nancy Kress
  • Vonda McItyre
  • Marie Lu
  • Jeff Vandermeer
  • Sherry Thomas
  • Michael J. Sullivan
  • Daniel H. Wilson (Robopocalypse
  • J. Grace Pennington
  • Jack Vance
  • Jake Yolen
  • J.L. Bourne
  • Peter Straub
  • Richard Adams
  • Jasper Fforde
  • John Ajvide Lindqvist
  • Sarah J. Maas
  • Spider Robinson
  • William Gibson
  • Robert Silverberg
  • Brian Jaques
  • Ken Liu
  • Jean D'Arras
  • Natalie Babbitt
  • John Flanagan
  • David Levithan
  • Brandon Sanderson
  • David Brin
  • Gene Roddenberry