Who are today's Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein?

Tech Republic ^ | July 26, 2007, 10:17 AM PDT | Jay Garmon

[mrsmith]

“Stranger in a Strange Land (my favorite Heinlein novel...)”
I assume he’s under 21 LOL!

Asimov, Clarke and Heinlein were historians- not techies or soap-operatists.
I do not believe their like exist today. (Mainly because there are no venues like magazines for them to develop their craft.)

[GeronL]

That just gave me a great idea... crap I hate copying ideas... :p

[Norm Lenhart]

The problem with great ideas I have found is that upon researching them...someone already wrote that exact book in 1950 ;)

So I read it. And grumble...a lot...

[Ransomed]

Three authors owned a house boat together and tried to live in Mexico together with their respective families on the cheap with writing advances/ pulp work: Frank Herbert, Jack Vance, and Poul Anderson.

If you read any autobiographical type stuff from any on them they will mention being great buddies and having adventures.

Jack Vance says he was there when Herbert came up with the concept of Dune in Mexico; he’s never read it though. He’s a character, Vance.

My favs from Anderson are Polesotechnic League/van Rinj/ Terran Empire/Ensign Flandry. We actually have a Freeper named ‘dominic flandry.’

Vance and Anderson have written both classic sci-fi and ‘fantasy.’ Fairly unusual.

My handle is taken from CS Lewis and his space trilogy.

Freegards

[Sawdring]

I loved Heinlein and Asimov and have read many science fiction books. I really enjoyed The Unincorporated Man.

A great tale about when a man who is found a couple hundred years after the Grand Collapse. The second book in the trilogy wasn't as good add the first though.

[Ophiucus]

Jack Campell, the lost fleet series
John Varley
Allan Steele, the coyote series

[FreeperinRATcage]

Yeah...the Harrington books can get a little stale, though I’d say they are still a good read.

Have you tried the Safehold series? Another great series with a premise I’ve not seen elsewhere.

[NicknamedBob]

"I would love to find a Callahan’s type bar here in Houston. Yah, I know, he’s a little out there, but could you just imagine he conversations?"

You haven't started one yet?

[Have Ruck - Will Travel]

Hmm, let’s see. Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Orson Scott Card, Anne McCaffrey, John Ringo, B. V. Larson, T. R. Harris, Richard Phillips, Michael McCloskey... There are others, but these will do for now.

As others have said here, of course our own Travis McGee, but I don’t think we can classify his books as science fiction.

[Norm Lenhart]

Greg Bear’s “Dead Lines” was one of the most original ideas I have read in a while. If not a completely original idea in and of itself, what he did with it was.

[Norm Lenhart]

Any love for the cyberpunk Sci Fi here? Sterling and Gibson? Neuromancer?

[bigheadfred]

I wrote a story tonite. Ya'll inspire me.

STORY

[GeronL]

Awesome!!

[GeronL]

Yep.. I just wrote a page.... now the hard parts... heh

[RikaStrom]

I've got 1 & 2 of the safehold series. I like the premise, absolutely, but I got sidetracked when he released In Fury Born, with that entire new beginning story, that went from short to epic in a blink, and the I got sidetracked by . . Ooooo look, shiney! Lol

I need more shelves. :)

Have you completed the safehold series, maybe I just need to go back to it?

[Norm Lenhart]

Friggin writers...buncha liberals...all of em!!! ;)

[null and void]

Wait! That’s no Wookie!

[Ransomed]

I actually only read ‘Neuromancer’ recently despite it being a proclaimed classic.

I thought it was really good, excepting the sex garbage he included. I though it was good enough to overlook that.

Freegards

[bigheadfred]

That’s another story.

[null and void]

I would love to find a Callahan’s type bar here in Houston.

Here ya go...