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I'm Ursula LeGuin:
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I'm Jules Verne's tard cousin.
ROBERT FRICKIN' HEINLIEN???
Oh, the HUMILIATION!
You think you're humiliated?
I'm Arthur C. Clarke.
Roger, you probably answered that first question "rape and mind control."
I'm William Gibson.
Quote from: MedeoEnjoy. (http://gning.org/skiffy.html)
I'm Ursula LeGuin:
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No you're not! *I'M* Ursula LeGuin!
(Well, actually, no, I'm just DJRubberducky. I *wish* I had that sort of writing talent, though.)
"I did not do the ape act. I stood up and did the human act as well as possible."
I am Arthur C Clarke.
John Brunner
His best known works are dystopias -- vivid realizations of the futures we want to avoid.
Will the real arther c. clarke please stand up?
Quote from: gnimbleyRoger, you probably answered that first question "rape and mind control."
I'm William Gibson.
Didn't!
Who the heck is Gregory Benford?
The Commander
DIA
Beats me, Commander.
If that's who you are, then I've never heard of you.
And I don't think I've ever heard of me, either.....I'm Samuel R. "Chip" Delany
Kurt Vonnegut.
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Aren't I hot!?!
? :?: ?
Benford (http://www.authorcafe.com/benford/) is a competent hard sf writer and a scientist. He is a
proponent of writing stories where the "science" has to be consistent
with current scientific theory.
Delaney (http://www.uic.edu/depts/quic/history/samuel_delaney.html) is a black homosexual who has
written some very challenging sf. He has won 2 Hugos and 4 Nebulas. His
most famous works are Babel-17, The Einstein Intersection and Dhalgren.
Vonnegut is from Indy and he is very discordian.
Maaaa... I wanted to be Kurt Vonnegut, but instead I'm Octavia E. Butler whom I've never even heard of.
Octavia is another black sf writer, who is considered very literary. I
haven't read anything by her yet, but I got a couple of her books
around somewhere.
I put in a bunch of answers trying for "John Norman," but I got
Jerry Pournelle instead. HA!
Arthur C Clark
Childhood's End was a classic, but the Ender's saga has enver held my attention
Ender was written by Orson Scott Card. Clarke is okay, if you
like formualistic "big science" discovery epics.
::checks bookshelf:: Hmmm... so it was. That's probably why I didn't enjoy it :lol:
I only read "Childhood's End" because the Demons (?) where listed in Barlow's Guide to the Extraterrestrials. It's also where I discovered Heinlein (Venetians - Have Spacesuit, Will Travel), and ??? (Denebians - SpacePaw, Spacial Delivery). And about half a dozin other aliens (who authors/titles escape me at the moment.
Like we didn't all see this one coming... :twisted:
David Brin
Bestselling producer of impossible-to-put-down epic adventures in a far-flung future.
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Bow before the wrath of the Soro Wolfling Humans or we shall crush you.
anyone know if Baxter was an option?
Quote from: Phantom Trollaxanyone know if Baxter was an option?
Maybe on another time line.
I wanted to be Jules Verne, or Asimov, but no, I had to go and become Clarke.
Stupid test!
Quote from: gnimbleyQuote from: Phantom Trollaxanyone know if Baxter was an option?
Maybe on another time line.
maybe if I can find a wormhole camera... but these damn mammoth feet aren't good for anything...
Quote from: chalemagneI wanted to be Jules Verne, or Asimov, but no, I had to go and become Clarke.
Stupid test!
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You
really want to look like this? (said the bald-headed ex-NASA engineer)
Gnimbley: OK, looked her up a bit but it seems like none of her books are available in the library here. Now I'm curious enough that I think I'll have to find some.
I'm Larry Frickin' Niven.
No I'm not.
I'm Rudy Rucker.
No, I'm not.
I'm John Brunner.
Iain M. Banks
I'm Neal Stephenson.
I'm Joe Haldemann, but the test insists that I be
QuoteHal Clement (Harry C. Stubbs)
A quiet and underrated master of "hard science" fiction who, among other things, foresaw integrated circuits back in the 1940s.
Quote from: chaosgraves:agentoferisJohn Brunner
His best known works are dystopias -- vivid realizations of the futures we want to avoid.
Will the real arther c. clarke please stand up?
who the hell am I please.... I have never heard of me.
Hal Clement rings a bell - Riverworld?
John Brunner also vaugely triggers a memory - I believe I once had a three in one of his novels (Hardcover, $.99 new), but I don't memeber any of it
EEEEKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!
Philip Jose Farmer wrote Riverworld.
Hal Clement wrote Mission of Gravity, which, according to the Ultimate
Guide to Science Fiction (by David Pringle who just retired/quit as editor
of Interzone) "is one of the best loved examples of 'hard sf.'"
John Brunner wrote Stand on Zanzibar (Hugo winner. One of my favorite
all-time sf novels. "Primarily didactic in intent, it borrows suface bravura
from John Dos Passo's social-realistic U.S.A. trilogy" -Pringle again) and
the Sheep Look Up, prophetic environmental disaster novels. I collect his
paperbacks. I also loved Squares of the City where the characters are
pawns in a chess game being played using subliminal messages.
And of course there is Brunners Shockwave Rider which is still having an effect every time you hear something about an computer worm.
I thought the idea behind computers has been around for a long time and there is no reason to call me a worm.
Worm.
Quote from: gnimbleyEEEEKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!
Philip Jose Farmer wrote Riverworld.
Hal Clement wrote Mission of Gravity, which, according to the Ultimate
Guide to Science Fiction (by David Pringle who just retired/quit as editor
of Interzone) "is one of the best loved examples of 'hard sf.'"
Ah ... that was in
Barlow's Guide to ET's, that why I recognised it. Never read Riverworld anyway, although I did read book 1 of P J Farmer's "Dungeon" series
Quote from: gnimbley
John Brunner wrote Stand on Zanzibar (Hugo winner. One of my favorite
all-time sf novels. "Primarily didactic in intent, it borrows suface bravura
from John Dos Passo's social-realistic U.S.A. trilogy" -Pringle again) and
the Sheep Look Up, prophetic environmental disaster novels. I collect his
paperbacks. I also loved Squares of the City where the characters are
pawns in a chess game being played using subliminal messages.
Doesn't chage the fact I found some of his books on "this book's been sitting around so long it's falling apart" clearance ... of course, I've also found copies of
Foundation and
Farmers in the Sky in the same palce.
Please forgive my unpardonable Speculative Fiction ignorance - blame it on the 20 hour days I've been having recently - I always liked SciFi better anyway.
Pop Quiz: What award winning novel starts with the phrase "It was a dark and stormy night"?
Snoopy wrote it in the funnies. (Sounds like Resnick or another
prankster.)
BTW, all the novels I mentioned are SciFi.
Brunner wrote tons of stuff, some under other names, and most of it was
just craftsman type stuff. But he also wrote a lot of interesting stuff for
somebody who used to never buy sf unless it was in the bottom of a box
at a used book store.
I never read Balow's Guide to ET's. Wondered why I wanted a
compilation of other people's work when I had the original material on
the shelf.
It also started Madaline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time (and incidently, Mercedes Lackey's Oathbreaker)
I got Barlow's while I was part of the SciFi Book club; I find it a wonderful sorce for finding writers I might not otherwise have read (like, for example, Heinlein)
Oh, yeah, sorry about that spec-fic/sci-fi thing, too. I, um, don't like being wrong :oops:
Quote from: SMFabalIt also started Madaline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time (and incidently, Mercedes Lackey's Oathbreaker)
I got Barlow's while I was part of the SciFi Book club; I find it a wonderful sorce for finding writers I might not otherwise have read (like, for example, Heinlein)
Oh, yeah, sorry about that spec-fic/sci-fi thing, too. I, um, don't like being wrong :oops:
::groans:: I actually read
A Wrinkle in TIme. Don't remember
reading Lackey, but probably some along the way. Did she write some
Thieves World stories? And didn't she do the script for some David
Arkenstone CDs?
I still belong to SFBC but will probably drop it cause I am reading less
"popular" fantasy/sf than I used to.
If you don't want to be wrong, then crawl into a hole and stay there.
Of course, you will have to pick another hole because this one is full
of gnomes. And we are hardly ever right. So you will have to find one
where the occupants are hardly ever wrong instead.
:D
I'm wrong alot, but I say things with such self-convidence and conviction that few people ever challenge me on it :mrgreen: I should have said "I don't like being proven wrong" :P
Lackey wrote some of the Bard's Tale Novels, the Valdemar Novels, The Free Bards, The SERRAted Edge ... the also wrote Wing Commander: Freedom Flight (with Ellen Guon) and The Ship Who Searched (with Anne McCaffrey, who I'm just starting to enjoy, now that she's writing more than just Pern). I've got about 50 novels by Lackey on my shelves. I aslo enjoy Asimov (and his alter-ego, Paul French), Heinlein (pre 1984), Robert Asprin David Webber, Peirs Anthony, Jody Lynn Nye, and Tanya Huff
Actually, I seem to be leaninbg more towards fantasy these days, don't I?
i love being proven wrong, then convincign the other person it was in fact they who were wrong. lol :mrgreen:
Quote from: SMFabalHeinlein (pre 1984),
Biased against those who have had a stroke, eh?
I'll remember that if we ever meet.
You bastard.
No, biased against the fact that in 1984, Heinlein's publishers began releasing novels (including Number of the Beast, Time Enough for Love, and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls) that tried to force all his previous work into a single Universe, despite the fact that it didn't have any need whatsoever to be forced into a single universe.
The ecessively complex plot and theory distracted from the story even more than the narrator monologues of his "juveniles", which literally stopped the novel halfway through to lecture on efficiency.
Quote from: Dream of the EndlessQuote from: SMFabalHeinlein (pre 1984),
Biased against those who have had a stroke, eh?
I'll remember that if we ever meet.
You bastard.
yes. everyone people who've had strokes are only half the man they once were... ;)
Quote from: SMFabalNo, biased against the fact that in 1984, Heinlein's publishers began releasing novels (including Number of the Beast, Time Enough for Love, and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls) that tried to force all his previous work into a single Universe, despite the fact that it didn't have any need whatsoever to be forced into a single universe.
The ecessively complex plot and theory distracted from the story even more than the narrator monologues of his "juveniles", which literally stopped the novel halfway through to lecture on efficiency.
They were always in Universe ... whatever...
he Stopped the book to talk about efficiency
* STARTS LAUGHING*
HOW CAN ANYONE HERE HATE SOMETHING SO DISCORDIAN AS THAT.
( the edit is the first capital s in my post... that is to say the first one that appears after the quote)
It's quite easy really.
Just dobn;r ask for some kindf of defense becasuse that is way beyonbd my capabilites, althoiug ti am pretty goosd at stuff thsat is wayt beyond my capabilities./..
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:shock: Frank Herbert?!
Cool!
wow, this I wasn't expecting...
Stanislav Lem
This pessimistic Pole has spent a whole career telling ironic stories of futility and frustration. Yet he is also a master of wordplay so witty that it sparkles even when translated into English.
I'm James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice B. Sheldon)... Never heard of her...
I'm Stanislav Lem. The site has some other good quizzes too.
I like Heinlein's later stuff despite his tendancy to get too political (and on things I disagree with) and the contrived universe switching.
::Waves hello to Bob the Mediocre::
Heinlein's later stuff might have been better if it had made sense. Sadly,
he had some grandiose scheme he was working on that he failed to
adequately explain before he croaked.
Kind of like a CBS soap opera.
I'm Stan, too.
sweet-ass...I'm Isaac Asimov! wait...my chops aren't quite as grey as his...I must be...SON OF ASIMOV!!!!
8)
Quote from: gnimbley::Waves hello to Bob the Mediocre::
Greetings and good morning.
I'm Alfred Bester, A pyrotechnic talent who put only a small portion of his energy into writing.
Somehow that doesn't surprise me. He sounds pretty flaky.