All is well here, DARK TEMPLAR, how's it going with you?
A fierce multi-player challenge is going on on some part of the forum, other parts Far Cry, Clear Sky notes/reviews, views. You have a long and very interesting reading waiting all around.
Authors? They are great authors Asimov and Crichton rocks (how much, depends on the reader and the critic) ; while H.G.Wells is almost a school of writing/thinking himself.
As you seem to like to read a lot, then I recommend you to read (if you haven't so) Russian writer,
Nobel prize winner Michael Sholokhov's Silent Don. 4 volume masterpiece.
Having read many classics from Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey and to Notre Dame de Paris from Victor Hugo before I was 18, I mostly like to read thrillers. I like Hemingway, Steinbeck, Arthur Hailey, most recent ones: John Grisham, Richard North Patterson, a few names among others.
I also read the whole catalog of "Agatha Christie" and "Earl Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason series" which I can mention among some of my detective books reading portfolio.
Then, I also read a lot of real stories (news, etc) which actually portray -to the right pair of eyes- human drama very colourfully, most of the times much better than many glorified books. Real life...