Literature Map

[natalie_ca]

http://www.literature-map.com/lee+child.html

Check out the above link if you are looking for reading material. You type in the name of an author that you like, and it finds other authors that you may be interested in.

 

[mani]

This'll take you to the place where you type in the name:

http://www.literature-map.com/

It's pretty impressive.  I put in an obscure author and still got lots of input.

 

[catspaw66]

That is amazing. I like how the names move around to show how likely you are to enjoy the authors. Somebody did some superior programming there. I bookmarked it.

 

[goonie]

if you click on  Gnod in the upper left hand corner it'll take you to a music and a movie page

 

[catspaw66]

I didn't notice that. Thanks for pointing it out. MIT Technology Review had some good things to say about his site.

 

[plan]

This is pretty cool...when I typed in the name of my favorite SF author, the "cloud" it gave me in return had the usual names of novelists, but also writers I've never heard of.

I'd love to see a more in-depth version of this tool with tags that show each author's attributes, so we can see whether a suggested author writes novels with a similar mood or setting, whether they're in the same genre, what themes they share -- anything that links them. That would be incredibly useful, but I'm glad it exists at all.