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I am: Arthur C. Clarke Well known for nonfiction science writing and for early promotion of the effort toward space travel, his fiction was often grand and visionary.
Which science fiction writer are you?
PZ made me do it.
Okay, this quiz is silly, but I took it and was amused. Except I am less-than-amused by who I was determined to be.
Why? I've never heard of him before. Also, I am unemployed, which means I'd have to get a job in science before I could become the writer I am supposed to be. Although, the real Greg…
If I had a category for "If all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you?" this would be in it. The Sciblings are doing it, so I must.
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Gregory Benford
A master literary stylist who is also a working scientist.
Which science fiction writer are you?
It's oddly apposite. Benford is one…
Arthur C. Clarke is 90 today. He has three wishes:
Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke listed three wishes on his 90th birthday Sunday: for the world to embrace cleaner energy resources, for a lasting peace in his adopted home, Sri Lanka, and for evidence of extraterrestrial beings.
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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. ;-)