This quiz is set up so you can answer the questions one at a time and get an answer, so you could reverse-engineer it. I pretty much knew that Ursula LeGuinn would be the peace-and-love scifi person, so I just answered that one question and sure enough, it was her. It would be interesting to se whether they have a complex algorithm for combined multi-question results, at all, but I doubt it.
Apparently I'm also Arthur C. Clarke. Except for the fact that both my fiction and my non-fiction writing is crap compared to him (and just about everyone else). But if I'm going to be lumped in with impressive company, Clarke's good company.
Apparently I'm James Tiptree, Jr (Alice Bradley Sheldon)
"It is very rarely that a James Tiptree story does not both deal directly with death and end with a death of the spirit, or of all hope, or of the race" -- John Clute
You are:
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Gregory Benford
A master literary stylist who is also a working scientist.
Cool stuff.
Samuel Delaney.
Damn. I thought I was Phil Dick. Dhalgren was a trudge even for me.
Kurt Vonnegut -- the only "sci-fi" I've ever read, incidentally.
Olaf Stapledon! Cool!
This quiz is set up so you can answer the questions one at a time and get an answer, so you could reverse-engineer it. I pretty much knew that Ursula LeGuinn would be the peace-and-love scifi person, so I just answered that one question and sure enough, it was her. It would be interesting to se whether they have a complex algorithm for combined multi-question results, at all, but I doubt it.
H.G. Wells, me.
Relieved I'm not Ursula LeGuinn.
Cordwainer Smith (Paul M.A. Linebarger)
This inimitably unique storyteller created a future with so many deep layers of history that all the world we know is practically lost in it.
Though I've read little Sci-Fi?!
Vonnegut. No surprise. Wells would fit slightly better, but those are the obvious two choices.
Frank Herbert - not a huge surprise. But I wish it was John Wyndham.
E.E. "Doc" Smith
The inventor of space opera. His purple space war tales remain well-read generations later.
Apparently I'm also Arthur C. Clarke. Except for the fact that both my fiction and my non-fiction writing is crap compared to him (and just about everyone else). But if I'm going to be lumped in with impressive company, Clarke's good company.
Hal Clemment. Sheesh, I never even read any of his stuff. I was holding out for Heinlein...
Apparently I'm James Tiptree, Jr (Alice Bradley Sheldon)
"It is very rarely that a James Tiptree story does not both deal directly with death and end with a death of the spirit, or of all hope, or of the race" -- John Clute
A cheery sort of person, then. ;-)