Which Science Fiction Writer are you?

Post by **lucimay** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:55 pm

i got tagged as david brinn just cause i clicked astro-physisist????
pft. so not fair. i wanted to be william gibson.

Post by **dANdeLION** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:26 pm

E.E. "Doc" Smith, the inventor of the space opera.

Post by **Creator** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:35 pm

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?

Post by **iQuestor** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:09 pm

I am Gregory beneford. I loved Great Sky River....

Post by **A Gunslinger** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:10 pm

Creator wrote:

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?

lucky you!

Post by **Creator** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:56 pm

I agree. I love Clarke! 2001, et al ... I liked 2010 a lot! And an old favorite, Childhoods End, Rendezvous with Rama, and sequels... good one for me!!

Post by **taraswizard** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:10 pm

A few years ago, I took a quiz like this, or maybe this one, and I came out as Walter Jon Williams. ATT, I almost confused that result as saying I was "Jack Williamson".

ATT, the Tor Editor Theresa Neilson-Hayden tried to answer the quiz as a another author. When she answered as David Brin, she got the result as Greg Benford, and her comment was "that's about the same thing". And Lucimay you should be William Gibson, you're nothing like Brin (who's a little pompous and very egotistical).

Post by **Loredoctor** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:19 pm

Creator wrote:

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?

Do you like kids?

Post by **Seareach** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 10:01 pm

Samuel R. "Chip" Delany: "Few have had such broad commercial success with aggressively experimental prose techniques."

Hmmmm...yeah...that'll do!

Website · Post by **Khaliban** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:19 am

Olaf Stapledon

Standing outside the science fiction "field", he wrote fictional explorations of the futures of whole species and galaxies.

Post by **Loredoctor** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:29 am

Khaliban wrote:Olaf Stapledon

Standing outside the science fiction "field", he wrote fictional explorations of the futures of whole species and galaxies.

You lucky man. Stapledon is incredible.

Post by **Creator** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 3:58 am

Loremaster wrote:
Creator wrote:

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?
Do you like kids?

Are you proposing?!!

Post by **matrixman** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:54 pm

I am: Hal Clement (Harry C. Stubbs)

A quiet and underrated master of "hard science" fiction who, among other things, foresaw integrated circuits back in the 1940s.

Which science fiction writer are you?

Interesting. Clarke is my favorite sf writer, so I was hoping I'd get him. However, this Clement chap seems similar to Clarke, in outlook and appearance!

Post by **Caer Bombadil** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 5:44 pm

Saw this 2 or 3 yrs ago & discussed on another board. I'd tried to see what combos got me tagged as, say, Larry Niven or Gene Wolfe. Then I discovered there was a set of possible answers: (the following was copied from the page code)

Spoiler

/* The SF writers are each represented by one letter, as follows:
a: Isaac Asimov
b: Alfred Bester
c: Arthur C. Clarke
d: David Brin
e: Octavia E. Butler
f: Philip José Farmer
g: Gregory Benford
h: Frank Herbert
i: Samuel R. Delany
j: Jerry Pournelle
k: Mickey Spillane
l: Ursula LeGuin
m: Stanislav Lem
n: William Gibson
o: Olaf Stapledon
p: Philip K. Dick
q: Hal Clement
r: Robert A. Heinlein
s: E.E. "Doc" Smith
t: James Tiptree, Jr.
u: Jules Verne
v: Kurt Vonnegut
w: H.G. Wells
x: Cordwainer Smith
y: Ayn Rand
z: John Brunner

DISCLAIMER: Generally speaking, the answers that I attach to each writer
should not be construed as necessarily accurate or factual. When I have no
idea what the right answer is, I just make one up.
*/

The site author has appended some interesting comments to the code regarding developments since that time. Apparently some authors on & off the list have tried this themselves!

I wonder if a comparable fantasy page will ever be done, & how SRD would fare on it?

Post by **sgt.null** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 1:14 am

Frank Herbert
His style is often stilted, but he created what some consider the greatest SF novel of all time.

Post by **Elfgirl** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:53 am

"Alfred Bester
A pyrotechnic talent who put only a small portion of his energy into writing."

this is obviously a test for blokes...

I did like this question though...

4) How big of an asshole are you?
I am so sweet and harmless that nobody could ever wish ill of me.
I try to practice common courtesy -- which I don't find to be terribly common.
I do not believe someone of my stature should have to suffer fools gladly.
I'll shit on you like you've never been shit on before.
I can take a dildo the size of a Louisville Slugger.

no, I didn't answer Luavll slugger...

Post by **Alsem** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:06 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.

A chance it was one I knew about !

Elfgirl> Yeah, very funny that Question

Post by **Holsety** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:16 pm

Stalinslav Lem
This pessimistic Pole has spent a whole career telling ironic stories of futility and frustration. Yet he is also a master of wordplay so witty that it sparkles even when translated into English.

Pessimistic?

Oh well. Never heard of the guy, I'll have to check up on him.

EDIT-At least he's unique. Nice!

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:36 pm

If you want to look up stuff about him, it might help to know his name is actually spelt "Stanislaw".

Post by **Holsety** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:20 pm

Murrin wrote:If you want to look up stuff about him, it might help to know his name is actually spelt "Stanislaw".

Another point of identification. People never spell my name right either! Mathew instead of Matthew.

Well, not that often, but I've seen it happen. Would probably be worse for someone named Mathew.

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