Word/Author Association: Science Fiction

[Redlass]

What are the first ten names that come into your mind when someone mentions science fiction writers? You don't have to like them or even have read them. Who do you think of?

I'll post the first ten that pop into my head in a separate post so that I don't influence your associations.

[Redlass]

1. Isaac Asimov
2. Sarah Zettel
3. Steven Piziks/Harper
4. Robert Heinlein
5. Frederik Pohl
6. Robert Silverberg
7. Anne McCaffery
8. Arthur C. Clarke
9. Frank Herbert
10. Ray Bradbury

[theworm[$]]

LOL! I'm definately not a sci-fi type, and the only one I could think of was Isaac Asimov, but then I wasn't sure, so I didn't post till I saw that you posted him. I feel validated! I've never even heard of most of the writers on your list.

[mjfrombuffalo[$]]

1. Bradbury
2. Asimov
3. Roddenberry
4. Heinlein
5. Shatner
6. Pratchett (probably fantasy, not sci-fi, but oh well)

that's it.

[quasar]

I could probably spew out several hundred names without thinking about it, but here are the first 10:

Isaac Asimov
Robert Heinlein
Alfred Bester
Poul Anderson
Robert Silverberg
Frederick Pohl
Theodore Sturgeon
Harlan Ellison
Gregory Benford
Larry Niven

Interestingly very few of my favorites made it onto that list

[murasaki]

1. Lois McMaster Bujold
2. Elizabeth Moon
3. Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (they co-write)
4. Ursula K. LeGuin
5. Octavia Butler
6. Anne McCaffrey
7. David Weber
8. Pamela Sargent
9. Sherri Tepper
10. James Tiptree, Jr.

[erik_kosberg]

Philip K. Dick
Roger Zelazny
LeGuin
Neal Stephenson
Bradbury
Asimov
Hugo Gernsback
Philip José Farmer
William Gibson
Iain M. Banks

[emeleel]

Isaac Asimov
Orson Scott Card
Poul Anderson
Arthur C. Clarke
Anne McCaffrey (I know a lot of hers tends toward the sub-genre of fantasy/sci-fi, but she has a lot of straight sci-fi, too)
Ursula K. LeGuin

Wow, these lists of 10 are hard! That's only 6 there, and since sci-fi is my other favorite genre (tying with Mystery) then I know that I know more people than that, I just can't think of them at the moment!

Oh, I just remembered two more that I thought of last night but couldn't remember this morning:

Phillip K. Dick
Phillip Jose Farmer

[Redlass]

I know what you mean, Melanie. I thought they would be easy, but I find myself thinking of titles and then struggling to remember who wrote them.

I'm finding it interesting, though, to see what names are popping up.

[lambchops]

Philip K. Dick
Isaac Asimov
Ursula LeGuin
Jack McDevitt
Octavia Butler
John Christopher
JG Ballard
Robert Heinlein
Orson Scott Card
Neal Stephenson

[soxfan[$]]

Connie Willis
Douglas Adams
Ray Bradbury
Isaac Asimov
Frederick Pohl
Orson Scott Card

[rmthunter]

1. Isaac Asimov
2. Frederik Pohl (including his collaborations w/C. M. Kornbluth)
3. Larry Niven
4. David Weber
5. David Drake
6. Poul Anderson
7. Anne McCaffrey
8. Leigh Brackett
9. Gordon R. Dickson
10. C. J. Cherryh

OK -- that's the first ten.

Bob