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Top 15 Greatest Science Fiction Writers of All-Time
http://www.mania.com ^ | Jan 30, 2009 | Tim Janson

Posted on 12/04/2013 8:13:32 AM PST by Kip Russell

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To: Kip Russell

bfl = bump for later (gots to have me sci-fi)


141 posted on 12/04/2013 1:32:15 PM PST by VRW Conspirator (Obama is a proven liar, an admitted liar, an unrepentent liar.)
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To: reformedliberal
My preference is for what I call *sociological science fiction* that explores life and people within a future context or within the context of paranormal abilities.

Just goes to show how much "different strokes" applies to sf...I like my SF hard as diamond. Give me a story that gives details of life in the first second after the Big Bang (with discussions of the physics of such life as part of the story!) and I'm happy as a clam.

142 posted on 12/04/2013 1:36:36 PM 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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To: Notary Sojac
And D-v-d G-rr-ld's name will never be uttered by me until he finishes the damn Chtorr series.

I was going to make a similar statement, until I saw you had already covered it. And you know what? He is never, ever going to finish it! It's obvious he has no intention of ever even trying. I plan on finding and desecrating his grave, if I outlive him.

143 posted on 12/04/2013 1:54:50 PM PST by NewMexLurker
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To: Kip Russell

I have great ideas, I might be on the list if I could actually write. lol


144 posted on 12/04/2013 1:56:13 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: 6ppc
James Blish should be somewhere in that list. Allen Steele and Spider Robinson need honorable mentions.

Agree about Blish. Clifford Simak deserves mention for City.

145 posted on 12/04/2013 2:01:13 PM PST by Stentor
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To: Billthedrill

Loved Slan!

There’s a posthumous sequel written from a partial draft. Anyone read it?

http://www.amazon.com/Slan-Hunter-Kevin-J-Anderson/dp/B004JU1TK2/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1386196743&sr=1-10&keywords=Slan


146 posted on 12/04/2013 2:42:21 PM PST by reformedliberal
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To: Kip Russell

No “honorable mention” at least for Poul Anderson? James Blish? Marion Zimmer Bradley? John Brunner? Henry Kuttner? Keith Laumer? Anne McCaffrey? Clifford Simak? A.E. VanVogt? Disagree with excluding Roger Zelazny. And my personal favorites that would be on my list but probably few others: A. Bertram Chandler, Ron Goulart, Lloyd Biggle Jr. & G. C. Edmondson


147 posted on 12/04/2013 7:01:56 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: NewMexLurker
I plan on finding and desecrating his grave, if I outlive him.

Well....you can travel to Spokane, WA in August 2015 for Worldcon and tell him yourself.. He's one of the Guests of Honor

148 posted on 12/04/2013 7:10:18 PM PST by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: Kip Russell

ping for later reading...


149 posted on 12/20/2013 9:28:02 AM PST by BrandtMichaels
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To: Kip Russell
I guess that Greg Bear is too much science in Sci-Fi for him to be included.

But Edgar Rice Burrows should be on there too, even if he seems to be somewhat anachronistic.

150 posted on 12/20/2013 9:31:09 AM PST by Maigrey (Life, for a liberal, is one never-ending game of Calvinball. - giotto)
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