January-31st-2008, 08:45 PM
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science fiction writers??!!
what science fiction writers do you all like if any??!! 
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January-31st-2008, 08:48 PM
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I like Dick!
I try to take in as much Dick as I possibly can.
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January-31st-2008, 09:05 PM
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Next year....
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Ray Bradbury.
The man just exudes awesome.
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January-31st-2008, 09:08 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GoodSpeak
Ray Bradbury.
The man just exudes awesome.
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Well putted.
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January-31st-2008, 09:32 PM
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Next year....
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Thread killer.
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February-1st-2008, 12:37 AM
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Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (the Mote in God's Eye, Inferno)
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February-1st-2008, 03:28 AM
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how do you feel about niven's ring world series? its one of my favorites. louis wu rules. i'm really digging stephen baxter right now.
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February-1st-2008, 10:07 AM
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I like plenty, but off the top of my head, of recent vintage:
Greg Egan
Greg Bear
Lucius Shepard
Here's a handy blog entry recommending new authors:
http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/top_10_science_.html
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February-1st-2008, 10:13 AM
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Haven't really dipped into the genre in a while. Last one I really liked (if it's considered SF) was Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon", though I couldn't get into his "Quicksilver" at all.
I'll second Lucius Shepard, especially "Life During Wartime". Howard Waldrop was a fave, Keith Roberts, Philip Jose Farmer, JG Ballard, Samuel Delaney.
Every so often, I get a slight itch to revisit the Dangerous Visions collection which was pretty much my intro to serious contemporary speculative fiction when I was in HS. Not sure how much would hold up.
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February-1st-2008, 10:15 AM
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Plus ça change...
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My older daughter is reading two classics at present: Stars My Destination, and Farenheit 451.
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February-1st-2008, 10:16 AM
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De harder dey come...
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott Dolan
I like Dick!
I try to take in as much Dick as I possibly can.
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Then you'd probably like Moorcock. Michael Moorcock, that is.
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February-1st-2008, 10:21 AM
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Just wiki'd Keith Roberts and was saddened to learn that he died of multiple sclerosis in 2000 at 65. His "Pavane" was a favorite of my youth and I greatly enjoyed his collection "The Grain Kings" and his novel, "Kiteworld".
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February-1st-2008, 10:27 AM
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Spurred by this thread, I just ordered this collection of Waldrop. One reviewer at Amazon referred to him as the American Calvino, no bad thing.
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February-1st-2008, 10:30 AM
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Oh, and Gene Wolfe, of course. He's pretty amazing, in a literary sense.
David Brin's Startide Rising is a great novel. Subsequent entries in that universe are decent, but a little overextended.
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February-1st-2008, 12:07 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by groover
Then you'd probably like Moorcock. Michael Moorcock, that is.
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My mouth is watering at the very thought of Moorcock.
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February-1st-2008, 12:13 PM
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Moorcock's "Behold the Man" was a big deal for me when I was 16 or whatever but it's one of those that I'm fairly sure wouldn't hold up well.
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February-1st-2008, 12:14 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott Dolan
My mouth is watering at the very thought of Moorcock.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott Dolan
I like Dick!
I try to take in as much Dick as I possibly can.
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Scottie, I am worried about you.
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February-1st-2008, 01:41 PM
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I haven't read SciFi in years, but back in the days when I did, Bradbury and Heinlein were my faves.
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February-1st-2008, 01:45 PM
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De harder dey come...
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What about Clarke and Asimov?
Who's had the most film adaptations of their work? Dick or Clarke, maybe?
Last edited by groover; February-1st-2008 at 01:49 PM.
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February-1st-2008, 02:00 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by groover
What about Clarke and Asimov?
Who's had the most film adaptations of their work? Dick or Clarke, maybe?
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I'd say Wells has both of them beat. Other than The Sentinel, what Clarke books were made into movies?
OTOH, Dick has had quite a few made.
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February-1st-2008, 02:01 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott Dolan
I'd say Wells has both of them beat. Other than The Sentinel, what Clarke books were made into movies?
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2000: A Space Odyssey and 2010.
Last edited by groover; February-1st-2008 at 02:01 PM.
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February-1st-2008, 02:04 PM
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Plus ça change...
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Fixed.
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Who looks like a science fiction monster now? Dick Clarke.
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February-1st-2008, 02:09 PM
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Clarke's "Rendezvous with Rama" was a favorite of mine.
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February-1st-2008, 02:20 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by groover
2000: A Space Odyssey and 2010.
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2001, actually. And that came from The Sentinel.
I had forgotten about that follow up turd.
But it is odd that you'd list him with Dick. Although, like Dick, he's only had one really good movie made from his books.
Last edited by Scott Dolan; February-1st-2008 at 02:21 PM.
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February-1st-2008, 02:34 PM
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What about Jules Verne? 20,00 Leagues and Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
Wells had War of the Worlds, First Men in the Moon, and the Time Machine, so I guess he's still ahead on film.
Last edited by groover; February-1st-2008 at 02:34 PM.
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February-1st-2008, 02:39 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by groover
What about Jules Verne? 20,00 Leagues and Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
Wells had War of the Worlds, First Men in the Moon, and the Time Machine, so I guess he's still ahead on film.
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Things To Come, The Island Of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man...
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February-1st-2008, 02:40 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott Dolan
I had forgotten about that follow up turd.
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The movie version of 2010, directed by Peter Hyams, is surprisingly decent (not in the same league as 2001, but still). Hyams did a few solid SF films in the 80s, including Outland and Star Chamber before reverting to dreckish stuff.
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February-1st-2008, 02:45 PM
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OK, I'll retract my turd statement. I guess I just had a hard time getting past the fact that it was a sequel to 2001. I suppose without that lineage it would have seemed much better to me.
Hey, I'm a sucker for bad science fiction too.
The Astronauts Wife, anyone?
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February-1st-2008, 02:46 PM
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Oh, and unlike 2001, I thought the novel 2010 was far superior to the movie.
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February-1st-2008, 02:51 PM
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Quote:
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Oh, and unlike 2001, I thought the novel 2010 was far superior to the movie.
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Never read the book.
Not sure how Asimov would stack up today. Liked the Foundation trilogy* a bunch at the time.
* I can never think about these books without recalling the classic ad that appeared in the NYT Book Review when the fourth installment appeared: "The Fourth Volume of the Foundation Trilogy!"
Excellent.
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