I am an avid reader. I love reading all kinds of books but I'm mostly into sci-fi, fantasy and humourous books. I especially like sci-fi books because I am a technophile and most sci-fi novels, if not all, have some cool gadget as the centerpiece to them.

My favourite author is Robert J. Sawyer, a Canadian science fiction writer and has published almost 20 books. I first met him at a book fair in Toronto (where I used to live). He was sitting at a table with a lot of his books on sale. I looked through the books he had on display and the one that intrigued me the most was Calculating God (it also cost the least and I was a little short on cash at the time). I was very excited at the time to get a signed copy of a book (it was my first and only signed novel). When I got home, I couldn't put the book down, it was that engrossing. He now has one of his novels turned into a television series, FlashForward. I highly recommend the book, and watch the TV show too, if you'd like (9PM Thu on ABC), but I'm a bit peeved they didn't give more credit to Sawyer (his name was displayed for a less than a second).



Another favourite author of mine is Gordon Korman, another Canadian novelist. However, he mostly writes humourous teen-oriented novels. The first time I read a Gordon Korman novel was in the 4th grade. The book was called The War with Mr. Wizzle. It was about the adventures of two high school boys in a Canadian boarding school as they tried to get rid of a progress-obsessed teacher. I absolutely loved the book and I read the rest of the books in the series (the series was called Bruno and Boots). There is one caveat about Gordon Korman, however. While his previous works have been extremely funny (they actually remind me of the TV show Seinfeld, the way somehow-unrelated comedic polt twists would lead to one very funy conclusion), his later novels are more serious, like the Everest series.