h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I was just wondering;who are your favorite Science-fiction authors?Do you prefer dectectives instead? just curious, Neugen

i started on bradbury, way back when, and just finished his latest who-dunnit 'let's all kill constance' but that isn't realy a sci-fi novel. robert heinlein for his characters, i guess. i have more asimov than clarke, but for pure entertainment, DNA.

I remember Dad belonged to sci-fi book club of the month& i devoured all of them;but Isaac Asimov,Ray Bradbury,Robert Heinlein...painting worlds that exist in your imagination into the imagination of someone else..That`s an art-form!of course,D.A.`s series is in its own catagory.This is a steller version of Dungens & Dragon`s(not that I`ve actually done it-the synonym just seemed right)oh,and Sherlock Holmes-absolutely. Neugen

Well, obviously DNA for Sci-Fi comedy, but for just plain sci-fi i think i have to go with asimov.

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Asimov was the first thought i had-his style of writing transported you into his senario before you realized you`d even started reading ..Neugen

Sir Isaac sure does tell you exactly where you are in his time/space/reality, and arthur c. clarke can add bits of whimsey, especially in his collections of short stories. if i'm not mistaken, vidmaster has a heinlein Guide entry in peer review at A650369 and my futile stab is somewhere like A849080 somewhere. it would be a doctorate to do asimov for the Guide.

i'm a robert anton wilson man myself but very few people have ever heard of him. his definitive novel is, "the illumanatus triology" it's really weird but really cool.

heinlein, asimov and bradbury are all classic greats.

i've seen references to wilson that were very positive. does he by chance have a website?

Can R.A.Wilson be googled?? Neugen

i think if you just type robert anton wilson into a google search you can come up with his site. i couldn't tell you for sure but i think that it's www.rawilson.com. let me know what you think.

what i think is of no consequence, but that is an AWESOME website that i'll have to investigate further, along with wilson's writings. i wish i had the time...but don't we all?

While I also love 'Illuminatus', I get the distinct impression that Anton Wilson actually believes (!) what he is writing about, and that is a very, very sad thing.

Sherlock Holmes, H.G. Wells, Laurie R. King (SH pastiches), Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, C.S. Friedman (A very underappreciated author), and Larry Millet (another SH pastiche).
I'm a Sci-fi nut, can you tell?

Amdams is good, but he only has a handfull of books. For about a year I wouldn't read anything but Orson Scott Card. I've read all of his series. Ender's is probably the best but Pastwatch is interesting. Theres this one series of book but I can't remember the autor, Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue mars. I'll have to google it later.

Margaret Thatcher...her autobiography is pure fiction. Though not much science...or indeed thought...or talent.

I started with L'Engle and then DNA and Frank Herbert.

i started out reading dna when i was about 11 (i nicked my dad's copy of hitchhikers and the restaurant at the end of the universe). in the wilderness years, ok my self-absorbed teen nightmare, i read the v novelisations by a variety of writers and flittered hither and thither in the local library.
but in later years i have gone for dna and terry pratchet for sf and fantasy fun, arthur c clarke for sheer emotion , robin hobb for being transported away to the 6 duchies and robert rankin for sheer strangeness.
for non sf and fantasy, spike milligan, ovid, dilbert, roald dahl and jane austen (apart from emma. that was a waste of paper).

L. Ron Hubbard, "Old Doc Methusaleh", the collected short stories about the Soldier of Light.

It may have been crap, but I loved it.
Just enough science, and just enough violence, and just enough schmaltz.

The man may have been an egomaniac, but once a upon a time he could write.

Micheal Moorcock, "The Cornelius Chronicles". More crap but elegant New Worlds crap.

Edgar Rice Burroughs: anything this idiot cranked out

Louis L'Amour: just 'cause it's in the old west doesn't mean it's not science fiction.

Niven: the man who scared me out of even thinking of writing science fiction for years!

Harry Harrison: Death World Trilogy and the Stainless Steel Rat stories.

Oh, all right, that "Dune" guy...

E.E. "Doc" Smith: the only man who could out-fascist Heinlein and Pournelle.

"The Twonkie" I forget who wrote it. I never looked at a console stereo quite the same way again.

Asimov: the Susan Calvin stories.

Harlan Ellison: stay sober, leave the lights on and the dog in.

Norman Spinrad: urf!

Verne: the original geek.

Poe: the original Goth.

Bierce: the man who scared H.P. Lovecraft more than Robert E. Howard And Clark Ashton Smith.

James Blish: Star Dreck, the short stories. What else?

And, of course, Madeline L'Engle, who started it all, with the help of Dr. Seuss, who had a strong science fiction element to his work.

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Ah, here it is. "The Twonky" Henry Kuttner.
I read it in the "Man and Machines" collection, oh, about '72, in a library copy.

I have to confess a slight obsession with Iain M Banks - especially his Culture novels. Elegant, adult science fiction, sometimes morally ambiguous - ah, fabulous. 'The Player of Games' is a favourite of mine.