Which Science Fiction Writer Are You?

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[EveningStar]

The guy who wrote it is a pinko, but you might like to take the test anyway. :)

[EveningStar]

The problem with Stapledon is that you have to be bright to fully appreciate him. Unfortunately, I'm not there. :)

[tacticalogic]

Poul Anderson and Jack Vance

How are you on Theodore Sturgeon or Larry Niven?

[MarkL]

WooHoo!!!!

I am: 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.

Which science fiction writer are you?

Mark

[MarkL]

I like to imagine it possibly turning some kid on to reading, the way Andre Norton, Edgar Rice Burroughs and others turned me on.

My mother played a dirty trick on me... When I was little, and she thought that it was time for me to learn how to read, once we got the basics out of the way, she began reading more "advanced" books to me... ERB's Tarzan and Mars series, Heinlein's "juvinile" (and not so juvinile) books, and the Out of the Silent Planet books... The sneaky trick was that she eventually had me start reading along with her, then making me read aloud to her. I was hooked!

Mark

[MarkL]

Smith was a huge influence on Heinlein

In Number of the Beast, Heinlein makes it very clear that there are some writers he was VERY fond of... And there's a hillarious salute to Harlan Ellison at the very end.

Mark

[Jack Deth]

I am: E.E. "Doc" Smith The inventor of space opera. His purple space war tales remain well-read generations later.

Which science fiction writer are you?

Dang! I've always thought of myself as either a Joe Haldeman, Heinlein, or David Drake kind of guy.


I'm a big fan of "Forever War" and "Hammer's Slammers".


Jack.

[EveningStar]

Ellison as a writer, certainly deserves a salute. He's superb. As a person, however, he's a punk - unless he's changed in his old age.

[Jack Deth]

Ellison as a writer, certainly deserves a salute. He's superb. As a person, however, he's a punk - unless he's changed in his old age.

Ellison's still a punk!


Decades ago he'd written the original 'Outer Limits" episode, "Demon With A Glass Hand" and later sued James Cameron's "The Terminator" for supposed Copyright Infringement and Plagerism for the use of time travel in saving the Earth as we know it.

Jack.

[NicknamedBob]

"My mother played a dirty trick on me...

I believe Spider Robinson said the same thing. With Heinlein.

[EveningStar]

There are some striking similarities between The Terminator and Ellison's other Outer Limits episode, Soldier.

[SunkenCiv]

It could be that the author of this fun quiz is at fault here. :')

[grey_whiskers]

I am: Gregory Benford A master literary stylist who is also a working scientist.

Which science fiction writer are you?

That fits me, except I've never heard of the guy ;-)

For the nonce, I still need to get around to reading Stapledon. C.S. Lewis recommended his stuff.

Used to love Asimov when I was an atheist, still love his puns and am intrigued by the sheer volume of sociology he made an explicit part of his works (e.g. Nightfall, The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun.
That being said, some of his work is as sociologically dated (chronologically self-stereotyped) as Ayn Rand's.

Cheers! Cheers!

[Perdogg]

Robert A. Heinlein!!!!

[NicknamedBob]

Uh-oh.

Now that we're all discovering all these old masters, no one is going to read my stuff, even if I am an incipient Robert Heinlein.

[NicknamedBob]

Uh-oh.

Now that we're all discovering all these old masters, no one is going to read my stuff, even if I am an incipient Robert Heinlein.

[BlazingArizona]

Allegedly I am someone whom I have never heard of (which, frankly, doesn't bode well for me succeeding at anything in a significant way)

Stapledon wrote so long ago that it was even before my time. His specialty was very large scale stories, written in prose dense as Christmas fruitcake, whose characters were entire civilizations.

[NicknamedBob]

Double-click.

Too many peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches over the keyboard.

[SunkenCiv]

I dunno. Seems like I've read your stuff before...

;')

[AnnaZ]

"If you ever get the idea that you're somebody special..."

Nah... my children cured me of that one.

LOL.

[Jack Deth]

There are some striking similarities between The Terminator and Ellison's other Outer Limits episode, Soldier.


True, EveningStar. The Soldier from the Future, Quarlo leans more towards Michael Biehn's Kyle character than Ahhhnold.


Always enjoyed the original 'Outer Limits' for the directors' use of shadow and light ("The Chameleon", "Architects Of Fear") in telling stories way, way ahead their time with a small budget and actors doing some of their best work!


Jack.