Which Sci-Fi Writer Are You?

[gnimbley]

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.

[Schweinepriester G.]

And of course there is Brunners Shockwave Rider which is still having an effect every time you hear something about an computer worm.

[chaosgraves:agentoferis]

I thought the idea behind computers has been around for a long time and there is no reason to call me a worm.

[gnimbley]

Worm.

[SMFabal]

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.'"

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

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"?

[gnimbley]

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.

[SMFabal]

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  

[gnimbley]

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  

::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.

[SMFabal]

I'm wrong alot, but I say things with such self-convidence and conviction that few people ever challenge me on it 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?

[Horab Fibslager]

i love being proven wrong, then convincign the other person it was in fact they who were wrong. lol

[Rupert Giles]

Heinlein (pre 1984),

Biased against those who have had a stroke, eh?

I'll remember that if we ever meet.

You bastard.

[SMFabal]

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.

[Horab Fibslager]

Heinlein (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...

[chaosgraves:agentoferis]

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.

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)

[datacorruption]

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./..