Favourite sci-fi authors

Robert A. Heinlein
Arthur C. Clarcke
Ray Bradbury
Philip K. Dick
Bruce Sterling

 

Sorry for the stupid thread................who cares about my favourite sci-fi authors??

 

And telling the truth, i don't care about yours...............

 

I. Asimov, J. Verne, & H.G. Wells ... partly because all wrote science fiction and fact

Peace,
poor_old_dad

 

Jeff Noon
Phillip k Dick

 

douglas adams
poul anderson
pierce anthony
isaac asamov
alfred bester
ben bova
regenold brentnor
carol j cherreh
arthur c clark
jo claton
c.m.cornbluth
roger delany
philip k dick
gordon dickenson
harlen ellison
phillip jose farmer
ron goulart
phillis gotlieb
joe haldiman
harry harrison
zenna henderson
frank herbert
robert a hienline
kieth laumer
robert alloysious lafferty
ursula kroeber le guinn
macavoy
anne mccaffery
george r r martin
myers
nevin
andre norton
alexi panshin
h beam piper
fred pohl
a.e. schmitz
john shirly
cristofer stashif
ted sturgeon
somtow sukaritcle
tucker
jack vance
john varley
virnor vinge
kurt vonnigut
roger zelazny

those are just the ones i can think of off the top of my head
all of whome i've had and read multiple times at least one book by, most several

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I'd say you've got a good listing. I'd add Spider Robinson and Fritz Leiber, Robert Asprin for grins, and maybe repeat Heinlein because he's the Dean and will always be my favorite.

 

thinking of that many things IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER off the top of your head? don't insult me.

 

A A ATANASIO

Last Legends of Earth
Radix

This guy rocks.. If u hav'nt read 'last legends' u are not an sf buff.

Occam

 

Also Barrington J Bayley.

His 'time' stories are damn cool.
[fall of chronopolis...collision with chronos]

Occam

 

Those 2..with
Niven
Baxter
Brin

are the elite

Occam

 

William Gibson
Douglas Adams
H.G Wells
John Norman
John Wagner
Terrence Dicks
H.P Lovecraft

 

not a big fan of sci-fi, but I fucking love Spider Robinson.

 

Spider Robinson
Heinlein
Asimov
Niven
Kim Stanely Robinson
EE Smith

 

LOL

EE 'doc' Smith..now theres one not heard of in ages....

superdreadnaughts ahoy!!!
More Rays, shields and beams than u can poke a stick at.
All labled with letters// M shields ...k beams..z ray projectors
Cool stuff

Occam

 

A friend asked me to send her some good sci fi titles so this is the short list I sent her

Bruce Sterling.
Distraction ****
Holy Fire
Schismatrix Plus
Heavy Weather
&
A Good Old Fashioned Future.


William Gibson.
Neuromancer ****
Johnny Mnemonic ***
Idoru
Pattern Recognition
&
All Tomorrow's Parties.


Philip K. Dick.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford
The Minority Report ***
&
The World Jones Made.


Michael Moorcock.
The Dancers at the End of Time
&
Elric Saga.


Clifford Simak.
Way Station *****
&
City.


Orson Scott Card.
Speaker for the Dead.


Roger Zelazny.
The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth.


Vernor Vinge.
A deepness in the Sky.


Harlan Ellison.
"Repent Harlequin" Said the Ticktockman.


Theodore Sturgeon.
The Perfect Host.


Fritz Leiber.
The Big Time.


The Collected Stories of Greg Bear (Hard Fought ****).


Wandering Stars : an anthology of jewish fantasy and science fiction.
& More Wandering Stars *****


Why I left Harry's All Night Hamburgers...


Hugo Winners


Nebula Awards

 

Ach, to narrow it down from a LONG list of good authors...

Topping the modern science fiction writers:
Alastair Reynolds
Neil Asher

For some of the older writers:
Edgar Rice Burroughs, in particular his Martians Series. - Bio and Books Online
Samuel Youd (John Christopher) for writing The Tripods Trilogy.

 

I'm not much of a fan of SF, but I do make rare exceptions, and occasionally read something by Kim Stanley Robinson, Clarke, Asimov, or Heinlein. And of course Douglas Adams, though what I've read by him was pure humor and just barely SF. I started re-reading Clarke's 3001 last night, since it's been years... nice

I find fantasy totally unreadable for some reason, I'd rather have wisdom teeth pulled than read that stuff. I do enjoy fiction that draws in discussion of science and engineering, even if it's not set far in the future (a good example being Kim Stanley Robinson's "Antarctica").

 

You'd likely enjoy Alastair Reynold's works then, he draws a lot on scientific theory and ideas. Century Rain is a good insight into science, though to begin it can be a bit strange.