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Top 15 Greatest Science Fiction Writers of All-Time
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| Jan 30, 2009
| Tim Janson
Posted on 12/04/2013 8:13:32 AM PST by Kip Russell
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To: Telepathic Intruder
No way I mean. I practically grew up on Larry Niven novels.
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posted on
12/04/2013 8:28:14 AM PST
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: Kip Russell
James Blish should be somewhere in that list. Allen Steele and Spider Robinson need honorable mentions.
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posted on
12/04/2013 8:28:17 AM PST
by
6ppc
(It's torch and pitchfork time)
To: Kip Russell
Harlan Ellison is too low, and not having H.G. Wells on this list beggars belief. JMO.
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posted on
12/04/2013 8:28:17 AM PST
by
Colonel_Flagg
(Some people meet their heroes. I raised mine. Go Army.)
To: Telepathic Intruder
I got through a couple of seasons of that series and the special effects were great but the plot was so darn depressing I couldn't take any more. The stinking Cylons were a friendlier bunch than the humans. They certainly smiled and laughed more.
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posted on
12/04/2013 8:30:45 AM PST
by
Pan_Yan
(Who told you that you were naked? Genesis 3:11)
To: Telepathic Intruder
I practically grew up on Larry Niven novels. In my case, it was Heinlein, Niven, Asimov, and Moorcock.
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posted on
12/04/2013 8:31:14 AM PST
by
Kip Russell
(Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss. ---Robert A. Heinlein)
To: Kip Russell
John Ringo, probably in the middle 20s...
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posted on
12/04/2013 8:31:35 AM PST
by
real saxophonist
(Looking for the joke with a microscope)
To: Pan_Yan
I got through a couple of seasons of that series and the special effects were great but the plot was so darn depressing I couldn't take any more I agree...Babylon 5 remains my pick for the best SF series of all time.
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posted on
12/04/2013 8:32:12 AM PST
by
Kip Russell
(Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss. ---Robert A. Heinlein)
To: Kip Russell
The late Iain M. Banks surely belongs on that list.
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posted on
12/04/2013 8:32:26 AM PST
by
Noumenon
(What would Michael Collins do?)
To: Kip Russell
Michael Crichton deserves to be on the list somewhere.
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posted on
12/04/2013 8:32:36 AM PST
by
DManA
To: Kip Russell
Agreed about the sleeve, but the alternate probability is such a great vehicle.
Buttons pushed!
Great tagline!
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posted on
12/04/2013 8:33:04 AM PST
by
petro45acp
(It's a fabian thing.....how do you boil a frog? How's that water feelin right about now?)
To: Kip Russell
OK then, Asimov too. And Clark. I never really got into Heinlein, my loss I guess.
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posted on
12/04/2013 8:33:07 AM PST
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: Kip Russell
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posted on
12/04/2013 8:34:14 AM PST
by
7thson
(I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
To: Kip Russell
I’m just finishing up the Barsoom series again. His books are flawed but seriously enjoyable.
When John Carter first arrived on mars, he stated as fact that there are no birds on Mars but by the time you get to The synthetic men of mars he has them riding giant birds.
On the other hand, much of what he imagined has come to pass in some manner or another. He wrote that mars was a dying planet before we had a clue, he imagined cloning etc.
If you like lots of technical Details, Robert L Forward was good because he was a physicist. His company “Tethers unlimited” was introduced in Saturn Rukh an exists as an actual company today with many earth and space bound applications.
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posted on
12/04/2013 8:34:30 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: petro45acp
No. HGW.. list is not up to speed.
Clarke..as no 1 is also very suspect.
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posted on
12/04/2013 8:35:16 AM PST
by
Bidimus1
To: Kip Russell
Heinlein, for this alone:
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded here and there, now and then are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as 'bad luck'. - Robert Heinlein
To: Pan_Yan
"the plot was so darn depressing"
Yes, there is no single movie or TV series in which more humans were killed. 50 billion.
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posted on
12/04/2013 8:36:33 AM PST
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: Kip Russell
Ben Bova should be on the list., and Philip K. Dick shouldn’t be so high. But when you make a bunch of movies loosely based on his short stories, he gets more credit than he deserved IMHO.
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posted on
12/04/2013 8:36:35 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
To: Kip Russell
Norman Spinrad belongs on the list as well.
To: Kip Russell
3/4 of those writers would have Jack Vance on their own top 15 list. Jack Vance would have none of those other writers on his own top 15 list, despite being good friends with at least two of them (Herbert and Silverberg).
Every living person on that list would say that Gene Wolfe is the best living speculative fiction writer.
Freegards
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posted on
12/04/2013 8:37:10 AM PST
by
Ransomed
To: Bidimus1
No. HGW.. list is not up to speed. He pretty much excludes any pre-1926 material.
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posted on
12/04/2013 8:37:27 AM PST
by
Kip Russell
(Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss. ---Robert A. Heinlein)
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