Every great book starts with a great mind behind it. Here you’ll find the authors who fuel our Side Quest Book Club Podcast adventures—masters of fantasy, horror, sci-fi, and beyond.
Stephen King (Photo: Shane Leonard)
Chuck Palahniuk (Photo: Allan Amato)
Brandon Sanderson
William Blatty
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
M.R. Carey (Photo: Luigi Novi)
Patrick Rothfuss
Will Wight
Robert McCammon
Ursula K. Le Guin (Photo: Marian Wood Kolisch)
Philip K. Dick
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Micheal Crichton (Photo: michaelcrichton.com)
Scott Lynch
Andy Weir (Photo: By Gage Skidmore)
CS Lewis
Drew Karpyshyn (Photo: Niccolò Caranti)
Ray Bradbury (Photo: Library of Congress)
Orson Scott Card
Dean Koontz
Peter Benchley
Robert Jackson Bennett
Octavia Butler (Photo: Nikolas Coukouma)
Jay Anson
Cormac McCarthy
H. P. Lovecraft
Manel Loureiro
John Grisham (Photo: Blake Grady)
China Miéville
W.W. Jacobs
Pual Tremblay (Photo: Larry D. Moore)
Anthony Burgess (Photo: AP/REX/Shutterstock)
R.F. Kuang (Photo: The British Library)
Stay tuned for more side quests. While you wait suggest more authors for us to read.
Author Submission Form
Are you an author who wrote an awesome book? Would you like more people to learn about your book? Well, you've come to the right place. Slava and Jonathan now have open slots for authors to join the show to discuss their books.
We look forward to side questing into your world.