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I am:Robert A. HeinleinBeginning with technological action stories and progressing to epics with religious overtones, this take-no-prisoners writer racked up some huge sales numbers. |
Oh, real big surprise there. ;)
Posted on 01/28/2007 3:21:58 PM PST by EveningStar
ping!
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I am:Robert A. HeinleinBeginning with technological action stories and progressing to epics with religious overtones, this take-no-prisoners writer racked up some huge sales numbers. |
Oh, real big surprise there. ;)
Robert A. Heinlein
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'm myself--I just received a magazine with the latest story I sold! :) (No, you haven't heard of me...yet.)
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I am:Philip José FarmerThis prolific author brings surprising depths to he-man adventure tales, and broke science fiction's prudery barrier. |
Congratulations!
Thank you! It's a fantasy story, my first sold to a children's magazine. I've sold to more adult mags, but this is the first to a kid's mag; I like to imagine it possibly turning some kid on to reading, the way Andre Norton, Edgar Rice Burroughs and others turned me on.
Another Heinlein... whoodathunkit.
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I am:E.E. "Doc" SmithThe inventor of space opera. His purple space war tales remain well-read generations later. |
ES I am some dude named David Brin who is hell is that ROFL
Doc Smith.
I expected RAH.
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I am:E.E. "Doc" SmithThe inventor of space opera. His purple space war tales remain well-read generations later. |
Brin is a remarkably uneven writer. Some of his stuff is great and some is atrocious.
A lot like Orson Scott Card in that respect.
Smith was a huge influence on Heinlein - in fact, he essentially invented most of the space opera cliches. They were original when he wrote them. ;)
He wrote "The Postman" on which the Kevin Costner film is based.
I retook the test to see if I could come up RAH. Hit it first time.
I've heard of Smith but don't think I've ever read anything he wrote. I don't go THAT far back. :)
I'm Hal Clement (Harry C. Stubbs).
I've never heard of him. The only science fiction I read is Heinlein (Stranger In A Strange Land is one of my favorite books) and Ben Bova.
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