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Post by Chicago Jake on Feb 6, 2008 0:30:57 GMT -6
Another one of those annoying quizzes! Eleven questions that totally characterize your life and times. www.paulkienitz.net/skiffy.htmlI am H. G. Wells, apparently......Jake |
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Post by mugsey on Feb 6, 2008 3:59:32 GMT -6
I came up with Isaac Asimov. Not one of my favorites these days but when I was younger I read just about everything he wrote.
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Post by Irish Stu on Feb 6, 2008 5:27:14 GMT -6
Alfred Bester here :
"A pyrotechnic talent who put only a small portion of his energy into writing."
Simon
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Post by New Mama on Feb 6, 2008 9:57:09 GMT -6
Robert A. Heinlein
Beginning with technological action stories and progressing to epics with religious overtones, this take-no-prisoners writer racked up some huge sales numbers.
Interesting....
I've never been fond of reading science fiction, so I don't know what this guy wrote anywho.
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Post by Christinko on Feb 6, 2008 15:33:31 GMT -6
Arthur C. Clarke
Well known for nonfiction science writing and for early promotion of the effort toward space travel, his fiction was often grand and visionary.
I wanted to be Isaac Asimov.
I've read lots of Heinlein...he's into lots of sex between old guys and young babes.
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Post by wareagle on Feb 11, 2008 15:29:08 GMT -6
Arthur C. Clarke Well known for nonfiction science writing and for early promotion of the effort toward space travel, his fiction was often grand and visionary. I wanted to be Isaac Asimov. I've read lots of Heinlein...he's into lots of sex between old guys and young babes. So am I. |
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Post by Kawaii Kaiju on Feb 11, 2008 16:11:33 GMT -6
David Brin
Bestselling producer of impossible-to-put-down epic adventures in a far-flung future.
Okay, true story. David Brin was one of my husband's favorite authors. I was going to a WorldCon, and David Brin was going to be there, but my husband wasn't going to be able to attend so he asked me to have some of his books signed for him. Like the good devoted wife I was, I stood in the astoundingly long and slow moving line for book signings. When I finally got to the front of the line, David Brin asked me my name, I told him but then explained that the book was for my husband. David asked me a few questions about my husband, why he wasn't there to get his own book signed etc. I explained he was unable to attend due to work. "Oh. Where does he work?" "McDonnell Douglas", at which point David Brin and I started to argue about the ethics of a pacifist working on building war planes. Voices were raised. Opinions were flung with deadly aim at vulnerabilities in the other's stance. Security came over to try to break it up, at which point David Brin said "But this is the most fun I have had all day, and I haven't signed her book yet" He then proceeded to sign the book with something along the lines of "Please look into a job that doesn't peddle death" and I almost punched him.
I've never had the best of luck talking to science fiction authors. I now try to avoid it if I can.
Zilla (who did have a very pleasant conversation once with Maureen F. McHugh before I figured out she was famous)
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Post by Chicago Jake on Feb 11, 2008 16:37:08 GMT -6
If I ever meet David Brin, I'll try to remember not to mention the years I spent at General Dynamics designing nuclear cruise missiles.
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Post by Tex on Feb 11, 2008 16:49:42 GMT -6
Arthur C Clarke
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Feb 11, 2008 16:56:16 GMT -6
Danielle Steel
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Post by Kawaii Kaiju on Feb 11, 2008 16:58:51 GMT -6
Damn, I totally would have pegged you as Barbara Cartland Zilla (who has read almost as many bodice rippers as I have read scifi/fantasy novels) |
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Feb 11, 2008 17:01:56 GMT -6
I was very disappointed -- I was hoping for Jackie Collins.
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Post by Exildo Wonsetler Briggs III on Feb 11, 2008 17:40:21 GMT -6
Who the heck is Gregory Benford??
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Feb 11, 2008 17:45:01 GMT -6
He's someone who's very easy to find on Google.
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Post by Exildo Wonsetler Briggs III on Feb 11, 2008 19:38:55 GMT -6
He's someone who's very easy to find on Google. Yes, but *how* did he become my science fiction writer? |
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Post by Kawaii Kaiju on Feb 12, 2008 7:57:26 GMT -6
Yes, but *how* did he become my science fiction writer? My guess is he became your science fiction writer because you took the quiz. Zilla (*how* seems a rather silly question) |
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Post by Exildo Wonsetler Briggs III on Feb 12, 2008 8:23:54 GMT -6
Well, I think the test if flawed. I've never even heard of the guy and obviously have never read anything he wrote. I should have come up Arthur C Clark or Isaac Asimov or someone famous.
Damn!!
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Feb 12, 2008 9:30:11 GMT -6
In that case, I think you took the wrong quiz. It sounds like you wanted this one. |
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Post by edie2u on Feb 14, 2008 7:17:33 GMT -6
E.E. "Doc" Smith..........LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! These are my real initials and last name!!!!
The inventor of space opera. His purple space war tales remain well-read generations later.
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Post by Chicago Jake on Feb 14, 2008 8:55:10 GMT -6
Good old Doc Smith! I think I've read every one of his books. They're all great. All the same, pretty much, but all great!
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Post by mugsey on Feb 17, 2008 12:48:15 GMT -6
Ah Doc Smith. I starting reading him when I was,I think,about 10. Might still have a couple of his books buried in this mess someplace.  |
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Post by ducksoup on Aug 9, 2008 8:47:40 GMT -6
William Gibson
"The chief instigator of the "cyberpunk" wave of the 1980s, his razzle-dazzle futuristic intrigues were, for a while, the most imitated work in science fiction."
I'm not exactly a science fiction fan, but the science fiction I like, I really love. I've never read a single one of William Gibson's books, but I guess I'll have to now.
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Post by pixiedust on Aug 9, 2008 11:51:17 GMT -6
Gregory Benford
A master literary stylist who is also a working scientist.
Never heard of him...
Colleen
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