I wouldn't try to talk you out of giving Steven King a shot. He's a good writer, I just don't like his writing. As for my own recommendation, Phillip K. Dick h

I wouldn't try to talk you out of giving Steven King a shot. He's a good writer, I just don't like his writing. As for my own recommendation, Phillip K. Dick has a ton of great short story compilations if you're into Science Fiction. Technically he's not the most gifted writer, but he was good enough and his ideas were very creative. To give an example, he wrote the stories that inspired Total Recall, Blade Runner, Imposter, A Scanner Darkly, Paycheck, The Minority Report, and many others.