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03-04-2008, 10:56 PM
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Speaking of Gary Gygax & SF authors, I was wondering what people's favorite SF/Fantasy authors are? Multiple Choice Poll - choose more than 1 if you want. Quote: |
Originally Posted by njaco Anybody else list Bradury's "The Veldt" as inspiration? |
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03-04-2008, 11:10 PM
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Too bad he died before he could finish his 12 book series!
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03-05-2008, 12:01 AM
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Country: | THX Freebird!  Mine, of course, is Ray Bradbury. Best description is he paints with words.
For fantasy (if its such) is the master before all the hype - John Ronald Ruel Tolkien.
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03-05-2008, 12:38 AM
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Country: | Sorry it took me some time to do all the poll options Njaco. I listed 24 authors, many more that were left out...
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03-05-2008, 12:56 AM
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Country: | No need for apologises Freebird. After all this time here it never occured to me anyone else would like SF. I tend to the older type of writers - Tolkien, Lovecraft, Welles.
Ought to add Lord Dunsany to that list. Talk about ahead of his time. He influenced Lovecraft and if you read him you can see why.
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03-05-2008, 01:37 AM
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Country:  | Hi Freebird,
>Speaking of Gary Gygax & SF authors, I was wondering what people's favorite SF/Fantasy authors are?
Science Fiction I'd have to think long and hard ... Fantasy is spontaneous: George RR Martin. George R. R. Martin's Official Website
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03-05-2008, 01:57 AM
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Country:  | Fantasie: Robin Hobb. She writes books that I never can put down, but I'm also a Tolkien fan.
I don't read that much SF, but I like Arthur C Clarke and I'm a fan of Startrek, so Roddenberry is also a favorite
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03-05-2008, 02:11 AM
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Country:  | I gotta go with Jules Verne, that man probably foresaw the future with its books.I read them all and I read them again and again if they where mine.
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03-05-2008, 02:21 AM
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Country:  | J.R.R Tolkien, and Terry Pratchett. Colin Wilson also wrote a good book called 'The space Vampires' - title sounds corny, but it's an interesting read into human nature. | |
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03-05-2008, 03:18 AM
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Im currently doing a journalism course, non fiction is my thing. However I am enjoying George Orwell and also Matthew Reiley.
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Country:  | Riiiiight....as Tolkien is the only one that I've heard about, what kinda sience fiction/fantasy do the others write??
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03-05-2008, 08:33 AM
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Country: | I've always had a tendancy to serperate alot of the Authors. To me, Bradbury, Asimov, Verne and Welles were sci-fi. Tolkien, CS Lewis and those with dragons and such are Fantasy and Lovercraft and Dunsany are horror (though Lovecraft did have a great sci-fi story "In the Walls of Eryx" - how do you get out of a maze when the walls are transparent and moving?)
Of course, this is just IMHO.
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| Don't have a number one, but Verne, Orwell, Asimov, Lovecraft and Douglas Adams above the others
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03-05-2008, 01:44 PM
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>Riiiiight....as Tolkien is the only one that I've heard about, what kinda sience fiction/fantasy do the others write??
H.G. Wells - Genre-defining Science Fiction like "The Time Machine".
J.R.R. Tolkien - Linguistically sophisticated adoption of ancient myths into a greater whole.
Ray Bradbury - Poetic rather than technology-driven Sci Fi.
Jules Verne - Genre-defining stories on realistic future technology.
Edgar Rice Burroughs - You might have heard of one character he invented ... "Tarzan"
Robert Heinlein - "Starship Troopers" ... more a political manifest than a science fiction novel
Robert Howard - "Conan the Barbarian"
C.S. Lewis - "Chronicles of Narnia" ... slightly strange but very atmospheric
Isaac Asimov - strictly scientific Sci Fi, robot stories, invented stricly logical laws of robotics and outlined the consequences of these laws to human society
Arthur C. Clarke - WW2 radar nerd, scientifc Sci Fi, pointed out the usefulness of the geostationary orbit for communciation satellites.
H.P. Lovecraft - old stuff, the attack of ancient and unconceivable forces on normal life
Roger Zelazny - very rich and brilliantly written adventure/escapism fantasy
Michael Moorcock - grim stuff, his "Elric of Melnibone" is sort of Conan backwards. He deliberately broke the mold of the old "sword and sorcery" stuff.
Larry Niven - a master of technological visions that often make his stories pale in comparison. Often works with co-authors (unfortunately?)
Frederick Pohl - I only know him as one of Niven's co-authors.
Ursula Le Guin - I've only read a few short stories, but they were sort of a thoughful Fantasy/Sci Fi mix I like quite well.
George Orwell - "1984" ... a great description of totalitarism and the capability of humans to deceive themselves despite seeing through their own deception
Poul Anderson - Good old-fashioned Fantasy/Sci-Fi mix. I don't remember anything specifically, but most of it was quite good.
L. Ron Hubbard - Founder of scientology. Supposedly his books echo their ideology.
Douglas Adams - "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Brilliant, funny re-definition of Science Fiction in the 1980s.
Fred Saberhagen - Hm, must have missed this guy.
Piers Anthony - Best known for his "Xanth" Fantasy series which features a lot of unique characters and interesting stories despite not being too serious and actually relying on puns as one of the major story devices. Good stuff.
Frank Herbert - "Dune" series. Great scenery, thousands of pages, little action.
Gene Roddenberry - I didn't know he wrote books, too.
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