Terry Pratchett and Isaac Asimov are two of my favourites (I have the whole of Terry's canon up to Snuff as e-books on my netbook for reading on the 1 hour each way commute). Between those two I could cut out a month without a pause!

I've generally stopped reading the comments on ursulav as I find them a little too fawning when I'm pushed for time (which seems to be happening a lot lately...