Frank Herbert
By default, I've probably read more American authors than any other country. However, when it came time to draw up this list, I couldn't for the life of me think of the last American author I'd actually read! I racked my brain and my bookshelf, only coming up with non-fiction American titles. I finally remembered Dune, which I'd read just a few months ago! One would think this would be easier to call to mind than books I had read in high school, but the mind works in mysterious ways.
Dune, of course, has nothing to do with America, but with a a feudal interstellar society, set in the far distant future. In a way, however, it has everything to do with America, the rise and fall of empires, resource extraction, and the price of commercialism. The book sees the ascendancy of ecological concerns over commercial ones and we can be hopeful that this too will be the case for our own present world that we seem so keen to ransack.
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