BEST author ever.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-11-15 11:25pm

Stravo wrote:
verilon wrote:Brownie points: Stravo.
Verilon...I am NO WHERE in the class as these giants but thanks anyway.

Yet.

David · Post by **David** » 2002-11-15 11:28pm

Robert Jordan, Asimov, George R.R. Martin and to many others to name.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-11-15 11:29pm

David wrote:Robert Jordan

Yay! Someone agrees with me! And I cant remember who it is, but his first name is Isaac and he has three names, but he wrote a bunch of Hebrew Children's tales.

EIDT: It was Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-11-16 12:01am

Asimov and the Foundation are decently but exactly top notch, or maybe its just the fact I'm used to Storys with wide reacing plots and defined charaters rather than bundles O short stroys as was Asimov's trademark

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2002-11-16 01:35am

Iain M. Banks is good at science fiction. He also has a secret identity of Iain (no M) Banks, writer of books that aren't science fiction. Have any of you read The Wasp Factory? It's quite the read. I must also say that Feersum Endjinn is one of the great underrated works of the cyberpunk genre.

Neal Stephenson has a lively style but he doesn't do endings well.

Vernor Vinge is great. A Fire Upon the Deep rivals the Culture series in scope.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2002-11-16 01:36am

I won't say he's the best ever, but William Gibson's Neuromancer is one of my favorite books.

For reliable, good books, I would have to say (for science fiction):
Asimov
Bradbury
Heinlein
McCaffrey (she's had a couple stinkers, but few and far between)
Moon

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2002-11-16 03:23am

For me (and I apologise in advanced if I mispell or reiterate);

Timothy Zahn
JRR Tolkien
Raymond E Feist
Homer

And honourable mention to JK Rowling, not in their league per-se, but I do enjoy reading her work.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2002-11-16 09:13am

Eh. Robert Jordan is decent, but I think WoT is, at best, an average story...Martin, though, is excellant. I can't believe I forgot him.

CmdrSweevo · Post by **CmdrSweevo** » 2002-11-16 09:33am

Terry Pratchett!

and Douglas Adams.

Larz · Post by **Larz** » 2002-11-16 02:06pm

Hugh Heffner!...er, I mean... uhhh... Terry Prachet!....

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-11-16 02:10pm

The Dark wrote:McCaffrey (she's had a couple stinkers, but few and far between)

Ha!

Her work has been going down hill for a long time. Some of her stuff is pretty good and her earliest stuff really is pretty damn good (filled with quite a few brain bugs and ideas that would never fly in a rational world) but it's fallen off badly. I think some of it has to do with the fact that she should have wrapped up some of the series years before.

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2002-11-16 02:16pm

In no particular order,

Heinlein
Pierce Anthony
Terry Brooks
Tom Clancy
Clive Cussler (ocasionally)
Timithy Zahn

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2002-11-16 02:17pm

You bastards, I canot believe you forgot Orwell!

But others are in the Sci-Fi League are Asmiov, Zahn,Toliken, Allston too list a few.

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2002-11-16 02:18pm

Captain Lennox wrote:You bastards, I canot believe you forgot Orwell! But others are in the Sci-Fi League are Asmiov, Zahn,Toliken, Allston too list a few.

Who? Orwell who?

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-11-16 02:20pm

Captain Lennox wrote:Toliken

Who's Toliken?

Because Tolkien wrote fantasy not science fiction.

Ands have you read any of Zahn's non-Star Wars works. Good reads but not anywhere as good as his Star Wars novels.

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2002-11-16 02:30pm

Stormbringer wrote:
Captain Lennox wrote:Toliken
Who's Toliken?

Because Tolkien wrote fantasy not science fiction.

Ands have you read any of Zahn's non-Star Wars works. Good reads but not anywhere as good as his Star Wars novels.

Sorry, I have a problem spelling Tolkien right.

I've heard about a few of Zahn's other works but none are in my book stores, gues'll check Barnes & Noble ometime this month.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-11-16 02:32pm

Captain Lennox wrote:
Stormbringer wrote:
Captain Lennox wrote:Toliken
Who's Toliken?

Because Tolkien wrote fantasy not science fiction.

Ands have you read any of Zahn's non-Star Wars works. Good reads but not anywhere as good as his Star Wars novels.
Sorry, I have a problem spelling Tolkien right. I've heard about a few of Zahn's other works but none are in my book stores, gues'll check Barnes & Noble ometime this month.

A lot are out of print because they aren't very big sellers. If you can find though the Conquerers Trilogy isn't bad. And the too Black Collar Cobra books are pretty good as well.

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2002-11-16 02:33pm

Knife wrote:
Captain Lennox wrote:You bastards, I canot believe you forgot Orwell! But others are in the Sci-Fi League are Asmiov, Zahn,Toliken, Allston too list a few.
Who? Orwell who?

You bastard!*Grabs his Shortsword and chops your head off, stompoing on O'Brien interrogating it, Ocenia Soldiers shooting it, then the chilren hang it on Hate Week* All George Orwell haters shall before me & Oceania! Besides I never initated in the Brotherhood consider it an Uber Initation-Decapitation.

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2002-11-16 02:36pm

If you want to kill me, just have me read Orwell.

J/K.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-11-16 06:00pm

Duh! Orwell! Great writer....and I'm not sure whether Ayn Rand fits in here or in Worst writers.

Anthem was good, but Atlas Shrugged was a hard read...

Temjin · Post by **Temjin** » 2002-11-16 06:09pm

Three pages so far and there's only one other vote for Orson Scot Card

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-11-16 06:12pm

Temjin wrote:Three pages so far and there's only one other vote for Orson Scot Card

Whee! I believe that was me....

Seriously....have ANY of you read Wyrms!?

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2002-11-16 07:42pm

verilon wrote:
Temjin wrote:Three pages so far and there's only one other vote for Orson Scot Card
Whee! I believe that was me....

Seriously....have ANY of you read Wyrms!?

My sister has. She's a big Card fan. She says it was okay, not terribly good but acceptable.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2002-11-16 07:44pm

William Golding.

After that, maybe Jonathan Swift. Other contenders include: Joseph Conrad, Kate Chopin, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-11-16 07:58pm

Raxmei wrote:
verilon wrote:
Temjin wrote:Three pages so far and there's only one other vote for Orson Scot Card
Whee! I believe that was me....

Seriously....have ANY of you read Wyrms!?
My sister has. She's a big Card fan. She says it was okay, not terribly good but acceptable.

I second her opinion.....but that is also coming after Ender's Game...