Kevin's Watch

Donaldson, Erikson, Martin, and Pratchet. I've heard him speak before and he cracked me up.

Ooh, I'd definitely put Rowling and Pratchett together to finish my list. They had some little spat through the british media a while ago IIRC, so maybe they could spice things up a lil.

EDIT-Ok, not really a spat, Pratchett was pretty tactful.

For me:

SRD
Julian May
Douglas Adams
Tolkien
J K Rowling

And I'd be so starstruck I'd probably crap myself, and burn the souffle

Julian May? I've never heard of this fellow.
*Jots down the name*

Oh! Don't get me started...there are a few of us fans here on the Watch.

And Julian May is, believe it or not, a female sci-fi writer. I humbly recommend The Galactic Milieu Trilogy or The Saga of the Exiles

variol son wrote:Donaldson, Erikson, Martin, and Pratchet. I've heard him speak before and he cracked me up.

Which one?

SRD, David & Leigh Eddings, Anne McCaffrey, Ray Bradbury, Janny Wurtz (of the living)
JRRTolkien, Douglas Adams (if they can be resurrected)

ur-monkey wrote:Oh! Don't get me started...there are a few of us fans here on the Watch.

And Julian May is, believe it or not, a female sci-fi writer. I humbly recommend The Galactic Milieu Trilogy or The Saga of the Exiles

I believe it. CJ Cherryjh (sp?) is a female sci-fi writer too! And Margaret Atwood (I believe she refers to it as speculative fiction, but that's nitpicking IMHO)! There are a number of others, but I'm too lazy to go digging through my head.

For the express purpose of watching these authors interact with one another (though I'd likely stay in the background as much as possible--I'm not really a meet&greet girl) I'd have the following authors to my dinner party:

Living
Charles de Lint
JV Jones
Stephen King
J. Michael Straczynski
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Robert Jordan



Dead
C.S. Lewis
J.R.R. Tolkien
Aldous Huxley
H.P. Lovecraft
G.K. Chesterton
George MacDonald


Personally, I'd almost rather be at the resurrected dinner party. Imagine what the conversations would be like between Tolkien and Lovecraft--both of whom built a new mythology! Lewis and Huxley would have a good go at debating mankind and where it is headed. And Chesterton, MacDonald, Lewis and Tolkien talking about building fantasy worlds? I'd videotape the entire thing just so I could replay it time and again. Being around creative people inspires my creativity, so playing a video of that conversation could have a lot of mileage in it!

Fun topic.

SRD (of course)
Ray Bradbury
Sean Russell
Michael Moorcock
Steven Erikson
R. Scott Bakker
George R.R. Martin
David Zindell

recycled to see what the fresh crop of noobs would do...

SRD,Stephen King, Elizabeth Moon, Terry Brooks, and Neil Gaiman. Elizabeth would become impatient, then hostile, eventually lunging across the table to scream into Terrys face "You dont belong here you hack wanna be Tolkien", to which he would reply "Did you ride McCaffrey's coat tails to get here to?", at which point a half drunken King would be heard mumbling something into his right breast pocket and following it up with some crumbs from the table.Neil then seemingly responding to no one "I had a dream like this once." Donaldson would then reply firmly, "its not a dream."

excellent!

Mine would be...

Donaldson
King
Carde
Gaiman
Palahniuk

(Of course limited to living. Ellison I would like to meet but not at the same time as my other favorite authors, he can be contentious!)

wyldewode wrote:Dead
C.S. Lewis
J.R.R. Tolkien
Aldous Huxley
H.P. Lovecraft
G.K. Chesterton
George MacDonald

I love your "dead" list Wyldwode - Lewis, MacDonald, and Tolkien are all high priorities for me! Yay, someone else who loves MacDonald!!!

My "live" list currently only includes:

SRD,
Modesitt,
LeGuin (Maybe.)
Elizabeth Goudge (historical fiction - if we stretch the line)

I think I'd probably be quite nervous around both SRD and Modesitt. There would be alot I'd want to say to each of them, but I'd try to keep my mouth shut and hope my husband would do most of the talking for the two of us. I would probably enjoy talking to LeGuin in a more "normal" relaxed fashion.

But then, I'd also want to invite a few RL friends - some of whom are avid Fantasy readers, and some of whom are probably not yet!!!

wyldewode wrote:Personally, I'd almost rather be at the resurrected dinner party. Imagine what the conversations would be like between Tolkien and Lovecraft--both of whom built a new mythology! Lewis and Huxley would have a good go at debating mankind and where it is headed. And Chesterton, MacDonald, Lewis and Tolkien talking about building fantasy worlds? I'd videotape the entire thing just so I could replay it time and again. Being around creative people inspires my creativity, so playing a video of that conversation could have a lot of mileage in it!

Fun topic.

I actually very much expect to find Lewis, Chesterton, MacDonald, and Tolkien seated around a warm fireplace, each with a pint, in some corner of Heaven someday. It's one of my few images of heaven that isn't heavily Biblically-derived. Plus they'll all have time and willingness to talk to anyone else there again and again. And nobody would be ashamed to ask them "stupid" questions! Can you just imagine?

Mr. Broken, I love your depiction of how things would go down! But I really think SRD would tend to say something more cryptic!

Your right He'd say "Dont Touch Me!"

1. Stephen R. Donaldson
2. Arthur C. Clarke - if he were alive
3. Peter S. Beagle
4. Ray Bradbury
5. Walter M. Miller - again, if he were alive

That would be it for me. I do have an extensive library of books, but there are very few authors I would like to meet. This is not out of snobbery, but rather out of social anxiety. I would be willing to deal with it to meet those five brilliant men, though.