Philip Jose Farmer Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Brian Aldiss Robert Heinlein Isaac Asimov Ben Bova, - Edward Edgar Rice Burroughs Herbert George Wells Jules Verne, - Fred Frank Herbert Ray Bradbury Ursula K Leguin Anne McCaffrey Piers Anthony - James John W, Campbell, Jr. Colin Kapp John Christopher Philip K Dick James Blish Mary Gentle Connie Willis, Orson Scott Card William Gibson Andre Norton Larry Niven - Robert Kim Stanley Robinson, C. J. Cherryh Greg Bear
[/quote]New list. The credits belong to techno and vonn. You must have great view standing up there on the shoulders of giants Buffy
Nearly there Fred Pohl was a good guess. But not on MY list. Probably should have been though. John W Cambell should have been much easier as I mentioned him over on the other thread as a serious contender for the big three.
I really love Mary Gente's Hermetic Science fiction. Ash in particular, but Sundial is brilliant too. And I am still trying to track down Colin Kapp's unorthodox engineers. I first read them in New Writings in SF but missed the now out of print compilation.
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Philip Jose Farmer Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Brian Aldiss Robert Heinlein Isaac Asimov Ben Bova, - Edward Edgar Rice Burroughs Herbert George Wells Jules Verne, - Fred Frank Herbert Ray Bradbury Ursula K Leguin Anne McCaffrey Piers Anthony - James John W, Campbell, Jr. Colin Kapp John Christopher Philip K Dick James Blish Mary Gentle Connie Willis, Orson Scott Card William Gibson Andre Norton Larry Niven - Robert Kim Stanley Robinson, C. J. Cherryh Greg Bear
New list. The credits belong to techno and vonn. You must have great view standing up there on the shoulders of giants Buffy
Nearly there Fred Pohl was a good guess. But not on MY list. Probably should have been though.
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Heyy, it's one unique Lotus!
Edward Lerner
Robert Sawyer
Checking on Fred and James while eating my mini chocolate chocolate cupcakes.
Some friends touch your heart in a way that you can never erase.
Nope. And nope. Robert has already been mentioned but in an either/or scenario. James is like Carolyn. So is Edward. I have already given a clue for Fred.
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Nope. And nope. Robert has already been mentioned but in an either/or scenario. James is like Carolyn. So is Edward. I have already given a clue for Fred.
okay...I finished my cupcakes and milk.
Will have the answers for you when you are up tomorrow morning Xx
Some friends touch your heart in a way that you can never erase.
Buffy. Yes he has. But for some reason I wrote down e e Cummings on my list. He was a poet. I meant e e smith.
Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud was the novel that turned me on to science fiction in the first place. It opened so many doors in my mind it was truly scary. I read a lot of jg in my younger days certainly a lot more than some of the others that were suggested. A few of whom I have never heard of.
Still waiting on that last Robert.
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I need to name ten Sakura Dragons for my newest island, and there is no way I'm doing that on my own, so I thought, why not have a little competition!
Here is how it will work: 1. People submit names of Sakura Dragons, as many as they want. 2. Every so often, I will pick names I like and put them in this post, along with the names of everybody who suggested it. 3. Everybody who had suggested a name I picked will be given one gem.
Also, thought that I'd mention that there will be four adult Sakuras and six FOY'ed ones.
Buffy. Yes he has. But for some reason I wrote down e e Cummings on my list. He was a poet. I meant e e smith.
Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud was the novel that turned me on to science fiction in the first place. It opened so many doors in my mind it was truly scary. I read a lot of jg in my younger days certainly a lot more than some of the others that were suggested. A few of whom I have never heard of.
Still waiting on that last Robert.
Robert Silverberg. I had no idea that the Treasure Island author wrote Science Fiction but Silverberg is one of the golden age authors.
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Buffy. Yes he has. But for some reason I wrote down e e Cummings on my list. He was a poet. I meant e e smith.
Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud was the novel that turned me on to science fiction in the first place. It opened so many doors in my mind it was truly scary. I read a lot of jg in my younger days certainly a lot more than some of the others that were suggested. A few of whom I have never heard of.
Still waiting on that last Robert.
Robert Silverberg. I had no idea that the Treasure Island author wrote Science Fiction but Silverberg is one of the golden age authors.
Yep. Some gems will be coming your way when I remember. Please don't return them.
I wouldn't class Robert Louis as SF either. Not sure why that was suggested. Maybe for doctor Jekyll and mr Hyde.
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Give them to technofantatic. We just built on his good work.
Well I think you all deserve some. It was very much a joint effort from where I watched. So You will all get gems / food over the next few days as I remember. All too often I just go into the gifts menu and automatically start returning from the bottom of my backlog.
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Robert Silverberg. I had no idea that the Treasure Island author wrote Science Fiction but Silverberg is one of the golden age authors.
Yep. Some gems will be coming your way when I remember. Please don't return them.
I wouldn't class Robert Louis as SF either. Not sure why that was suggested. Maybe for doctor Jekyll and mr Hyde.
Sorta depends on how you classify SF back in the day Jekyll was pretty cutting edge I guess. I have trouble classifying anything as science fiction if it doesn't have a space ship and a ray gun... Robert Louis makes all the great SF lists somehow...
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I wouldn't class Robert Louis as SF either. Not sure why that was suggested. Maybe for doctor Jekyll and mr Hyde.
Sorta depends on how you classify SF back in the day Jekyll was pretty cutting edge I guess. I have trouble classifying anything as science fiction if it doesn't have a space ship and a ray gun... Robert Louis makes all the great SF lists somehow...
The trouble that definition is that you exclude some VERY hardcore SF." Neuromancer" is one that springs immediately to mind. also "Day of the Triffids". It would also exclude "Childhoods End" and "The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C Clarke. The man who started this whole discussion.
In Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde we see the prediction of mind and personality altering drugs that are endemic in our modern society. I think that qualifies.
I think a better definition of SF is "what if...?"
... FTL invented
... Hitler won the war
... Telepathy is real
... Time travel (backwards) is possible
...prayer can alter reality
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Then I highly recommend Ash: a secret history by Mary Gentle It starts reading like a straight historical novel set in the medieval period. Then it morphs into a swords and sorcery fantasy. By the end you realize it was science fiction all along
Also Jacqueline Carey's kushiels dart and sequels. Very much in the realm of fantasy and most definitely not for the prudish. Also set in a medieval world roughly corresponding to France and its neighbors. Though she does venture to China and South America in the later (lesser) novels. A world where Jesus was accepted as the messiah by the Jews, Ancient Rome was defeated by the British and Elua was accepted as the patron god of France. To give the places and people their modern labels. As far as I can work out, Elua is her own creation. But most other references can be traced back to history and/or mythology.
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Also Jacqueline Carey's kushiels dart and sequels. Very much in the realm of fantasy and most definitely not for the prudish. Also set in a medieval world roughly corresponding to France and its neighbors. Though she does venture to China and South America in the later (lesser) novels. A world where Jesus was accepted as the messiah by the Jews, Ancient Rome was defeated by the British and Elua was accepted as the patron god of France. To give the places and people their modern labels. As far as I can work out, Elua is her own creation. But most other references can be traced back to history and/or mythology.
This description makes me very curious, but the 2nd sentence makes me wary. If it needs a warning...
Yes it does need a warning. The heroine of the first three books (of nine - three trilogies) is a courtesan who is blessed/cursed by the gods to find pleasure in pain.. I found it challenging reading at times. The at times all too graphic scenes are essential to the story however, so I still recommend it. When I was looking for reviews I did come across one website in ,shall we say dubious taste, that felt the text was boring in its tameness.
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Disappointed that Octavia E Butler didn't make your list, although she would've been easy to guess.
Never heard of her. Googling now.
Ahh. Her peak fame seems to have been in the '80s when I was going through a marriage breakup and subsequent reassessment of my life.
Will see if she is in my local library.
EDIT: Nothing in the nearest three libraries. She may not have made it out here.
EDIT 2: Lilith's brood and Kindred are available in my nearest specialist SF bookstore. But it is over 100km away. Won't be any time soon. Reluctant to buy these without having a flip through.
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