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Which Science Fiction Writer Are You?
paulkienitz.net ^ | Paul Kienitz

Posted on 01/28/2007 3:21:58 PM PST by EveningStar

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1 posted on 01/28/2007 3:22:00 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: KevinDavis; Howlin; onyx; Clemenza; Petronski; GummyIII; SevenofNine; veronica; Xenalyte; ...

ping!


2 posted on 01/28/2007 3:22:46 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
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?

Oh, real big surprise there. ;)

3 posted on 01/28/2007 3:24:36 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: EveningStar

Robert A. Heinlein


4 posted on 01/28/2007 3:25:41 PM PST by cripplecreek (Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
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To: EveningStar

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.


5 posted on 01/28/2007 3:26:03 PM PST by TaraP
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To: EveningStar

I'm myself--I just received a magazine with the latest story I sold! :) (No, you haven't heard of me...yet.)


6 posted on 01/28/2007 3:26:14 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (Republican, Bostonian, Bush supporter, atheist, pro-lifer)
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To: EveningStar
Well...

I am:
Philip José Farmer
This prolific author brings surprising depths to he-man adventure tales, and broke science fiction's prudery barrier.

7 posted on 01/28/2007 3:26:37 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Fell deeds awake! Now for wrath! Now for ruin! And the red dawn!)
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To: Darkwolf377
I just received a magazine with the latest story I sold!

Congratulations!

8 posted on 01/28/2007 3:27:41 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Fell deeds awake! Now for wrath! Now for ruin! And the red dawn!)
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To: EveningStar
What a joke!

They do not understand the difference between Science Fiction and Fantasy.
9 posted on 01/28/2007 3:28:51 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

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.


10 posted on 01/28/2007 3:30:22 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (Republican, Bostonian, Bush supporter, atheist, pro-lifer)
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To: EveningStar

Another Heinlein... whoodathunkit.


11 posted on 01/28/2007 3:31:04 PM PST by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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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?


12 posted on 01/28/2007 3:32:01 PM PST by KevinDavis (“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual ways of preserving peace” – George Washington)
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To: EveningStar

ES I am some dude named David Brin who is hell is that ROFL


13 posted on 01/28/2007 3:32:37 PM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: EveningStar

Doc Smith.

I expected RAH.


14 posted on 01/28/2007 3:34:03 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: EveningStar
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?


15 posted on 01/28/2007 3:34:09 PM PST by narses (St Thomas says "lex injusta non obligat.")
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To: SevenofNine

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.


16 posted on 01/28/2007 3:35:22 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan
I expected RAH.

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. ;)

17 posted on 01/28/2007 3:36:03 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: SevenofNine

He wrote "The Postman" on which the Kevin Costner film is based.


18 posted on 01/28/2007 3:37:27 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: Mr. Jeeves

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. :)


19 posted on 01/28/2007 3:38:17 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: EveningStar

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.


20 posted on 01/28/2007 3:39:00 PM PST by proudofthesouth (Mao said that power comes at the point of a rifle; I say FREEDOM does.)
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