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Looking for author recommendation website

 
 
David Roel
05:34 / 09.10.07
There's a website where you enter an author and then it shows you a cloud of authors in relation to that first author, so that you can get a recommendation based on how close they are. So you would enter Douglas Adams, and Terry Pratchett would show up very close to his name in the cloud, and so you would see that they are probably similar to your taste, etc. Anyone know that website I'm talking about?
 
 
The Falcon
09:08 / 09.10.07
I think you will find fantastic fiction does this for pretty much any author you can think of, based generally on recommendations they've written one another. I certainly find it useful, e.g. scroll to the bottom of China Mieville's page and you get Bronte, Wells, Stefan Grabinski, Dick, Peake, etc.

The Who Else Writes Like...? books are I think the standard reference guide for public libraries but, searching briefly, there doesn't appear to be a useful or extensive web-equivalent.
 
 
Bradley Sands
17:38 / 27.10.07
It's this: www.literature-map.com

Doesn't seem very accurate though.
 
 
Dusto
00:32 / 28.10.07
LibraryThing also has a cloud like you describe.
 
 
David Roel
19:19 / 28.10.07
That's it! Thank you, Bradley!
 
  
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