Who are the greatest sci-fi writers of all time? I'm going to go with RA Salvatore. Not only is he a great writer, but he has deep characters who share their philosophical ideas in the books through journal entries. The philosophy makes me think and it always applies to today's society and today's issues.
Peter F. Hamilton: "updated" space opera, people, technology, grand ideas. Roger Zelazny: erudite, thought-provoking and fun. I love how he uses the language. David Drake: superficially it's war stories, but they're actually about what war does to people. PS isn't Salvatore a fantasy author rather than SF?
Typically, fantasy is categorized into Sci-Fi in most book stores so I'm following suit. It makes sense to do this because there are many novels that belong in both categories. Thanks for your input!
More books made into movies. A master of the novel AND short story. Most original themes, characters, situations. Transcends the genre.
And it makes it that much harder to find the SF books Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!.
yeah I know, I cant stand fantasy...because they just dump those women drama love stories with hunky men and almost naked women in them, when all I was looking for is a story on spaceships and alternate universes and such...Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
:wtf: Also :wtf: Then you haven't read much fantasy. This or this would be a good start. Or even, given my liking for Zelazny, this. Hence SF not fantasy... Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
yeah Poland does have some good things to it. Lem is one of them. I also like polish cookies with red jam.
Cordwainer Smith because he was way ahead of his time in style and subject matter, he still is! “Scanners Live in Vain” and “A Planet Named Shayol” are two of the best Sci-Fi short stories I’ve read. Dan Simmons because conceptually his Hyperion stories are so sophisticated and Cool especially the first two. And last but not least Phillip K Dick because he has a inverted way of looking at things that I can really relate to.
Frank Herbert - "Dune" Arthur C. Clark - "2001" and "3001" Isaac Asimov - "Foundation" Wil McCarthy - "Bloom" Orson Scott Card - "Ender's Game" ~String
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Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I’ve found that people either love or hate Cordwainer Smith stories those who are not uptight about their Sci-Fi will love him, he wrote “Scanners live in Vain” in 1945 when his fellow Science fiction writers were writing stories about little green men form Mars. He’s stories are quirky and poignant, the struggle of the under people (Animals that have been given humanlike form) mirrors the civil rights movement in the 1960s. He also uses Chinese writing methodologies which those who have read Monkey “Journey to the West “ by Wu Cheng'en would pick up on.