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12-18-2002, 08:52 PM
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Take the quiz and find out what author's writing style yours would most resemble: What kind of sci-fi writer are you?
I most resemble Ursula K. LeGuin. I can live with that. 
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12-18-2002, 09:42 PM
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Philip José Farmer
This prolific author brings surprising depths to he-man adventure tales, and broke science fiction's prudery barrier.
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12-18-2002, 09:44 PM
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John Brunner
His best known works are dystopias -- vivid realizations of the futures we want to avoid.
Hell, how do I get to be Heinlein? I don't want to be John Brunner. (Um, should I know John Brunner? I read a lot of SF/F) |
12-18-2002, 09:47 PM
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Not too surprisingly, I, too, am Ursula. |
12-18-2002, 09:56 PM
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Ok, I just read all the questions to my husband. He is: Quote:
E.E. "Doc" Smith
The inventor of space opera. His purple space war tales remain well-read generations later.
| He says that makes sense.
I then asked him who he thought I was. He thought for a second and said, 'Ursula K. LeGuin?'
I guess I am predictable. |
12-18-2002, 09:57 PM
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I would have picked Ursula for you also. So did you ask him who John Brunner is since I'm too lazy to google? |
12-18-2002, 10:09 PM
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John Brunner:
Stand on Zanzibar
The Sheep Look Up
Good stuff. |
12-18-2002, 10:14 PM
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Thanks, Eye! I just read the two Epinions on his stuff. Now I wanna go read him. I still wanna be Bob Heinlein - or even Spider Robinson, but this stuff sounds write up my alley. |
12-18-2002, 10:17 PM
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Hal Clement (Needle)
Works for me.... |
12-19-2002, 12:54 AM
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William Gibson
The chief inspirer of the "cyberpunk" wave of the 1980s, his razzle-dazzle futuristic intrigues were, for a while, the most imitated work in science fiction.
Razzle-dazzle? *raises eyebrow* Hmmm, never would have figured that one. 
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12-19-2002, 01:04 AM
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I'm Gregory Benford.
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12-19-2002, 09:38 AM
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My husband is Octavia Butler. He obviously answered the gender question wrong. 
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12-19-2002, 09:46 AM
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No gender question, Naomi. That's why Quasar got Greg Benford. Your husband simply has to unleash the hidden Octavia within him.  |
12-19-2002, 12:33 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by nc10
Hal Clement (Needle)
Works for me.... | Me, too.
Um, I don't know who he is, but I am he!
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12-19-2002, 12:42 PM
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Hell, how do I get to be Heinlein?
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I think it's the God question.
I am Heinlein!
Well maybe I've just read TOO MUCH Heinlein. But not recently.
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.
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12-19-2002, 01:06 PM
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Maybe it's because he went to Annapolis, Judy. There's some sort of geographical bias in the test. It's just hidden really, really well. |
12-19-2002, 01:42 PM
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Gibson, here.
-JP |
12-19-2002, 07:22 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by jsgoddess
Me, too.
Um, I don't know who he is, but I am he!
Julie |
Re Hal Clement
Classic "hard" SF writer. From the same era as Asimov, Heinlein, etc.
His 1950 novel Needle was the first SF/Detective novel. http://www.geocities.com/gamgeephile//hal/hcbio.html |
12-20-2002, 12:38 AM
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Frank Herbert - once again, I stand out in the crowd. (I'm the only Frank Herbert here - and BTW, I'm female.)
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12-20-2002, 01:17 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by nc10
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Re Hal Clement
Classic "hard" SF writer. From the same era as Asimov, Heinlein, etc.
| How can I be a writer whose writing I wouldn't read?
Actually, that sounds just about perfect for me. I don't like to read anything I wrote!
Julie | |
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