I got RAH, too.
Then I went through all the writers.
Niven's not on the list.
The Pak and I will short be arriving in the Sol System, with a very large, complicated weapon, which could not be understood by small brains such as those possessed by you degenerate Pak breeders.
The creator of this survey is a corruption of the Pak form, and must be destroyed.
He smells wrong.
Which Science Fiction Writer are you?
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The what author are you?
Emotional Leper, Niven and Heinlein nearly the same thing, in oh so many ways. Especially since Niven is getting older now and not very much like the young man he was, and is now a very crumdugeony fellow.
Zahir, coming out as 'Chip' Delany is very cool. Maybe you can explain the short story 'Aye, and Gomorrah'.
Zahir, coming out as 'Chip' Delany is very cool. Maybe you can explain the short story 'Aye, and Gomorrah'.
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That might explain why I like them both so much.taraswizard wrote:Emotional Leper, Niven and Heinlein nearly the same thing, in oh so many ways. Especially since Niven is getting older now and not very much like the young man he was, and is now a very crumdugeony fellow.
Zahir, coming out as 'Chip' Delany is very cool. Maybe you can explain the short story 'Aye, and Gomorrah'.
Still, compared to Heinlein, Niven "looks like a f***ing socialist".
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Ursula K. LeGuin
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
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I am a german, so i have to be a multipersonal human.
I am sometimes.
Robert Aaron Heinliein, because starship troppers helped me out of the army
Cordwainer Smith (Paul Anthony Myron Linebarger 1913 - 1966) because i like his kind of stories and how he wrote them.
sometimes i am a
Alan Dean Foster because i like Flinx and his little flying death Pep and Alien too.
and i am E. E. "Doc" Smith because nothing harder, better and can kill things so easiely like a fleet of superdoper Lensmen ships.
and dont forget Orson Scott Card because i am in the age to be a speaker of the deaths, because iam loosing friends to this kind of stange guy. Its hard but i am the guy who must speak about the death one to the living ones. So i like Enders Game and most of the stuff from Orson Scott Card.
I am sometimes.
Robert Aaron Heinliein, because starship troppers helped me out of the army
Cordwainer Smith (Paul Anthony Myron Linebarger 1913 - 1966) because i like his kind of stories and how he wrote them.
sometimes i am a
Alan Dean Foster because i like Flinx and his little flying death Pep
and Alien too.and i am E. E. "Doc" Smith because nothing harder, better and can kill things so easiely like a fleet of superdoper Lensmen ships.
and dont forget Orson Scott Card because i am in the age to be a speaker of the deaths, because iam loosing friends to this kind of stange guy. Its hard but i am the guy who must speak about the death one to the living ones. So i like Enders Game and most of the stuff from Orson Scott Card.
Have mercy but the english i wrote. I am german and english is not me best friend now.
feeling like a kid teaching gods things about creation of worlds.
feeling like a kid teaching gods things about creation of worlds.
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Prebe, I'm pretty sure you'd like Vonnegut.
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner
-George Steiner
Prebe wrote:Kurt Vonnegut
Never read him myself. Is it any good?
Syl wrote:Prebe, I'm pretty sure you'd like Vonnegut.
lemme add my vote to that, you'd definitely like him Prebe.
i highly reccomend my three favorites:
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you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
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Thanks Syl and Lucimay.
The only title I recognised was Slaughterhouse Five. However, I will take litterary recommendations from the two of you any day, so when I'm through Tad Williams MSaT (well over half way) I'll go to an antiquary bookshop and pick me up some Vonnegut. After reading FR of course!
The only title I recognised was Slaughterhouse Five. However, I will take litterary recommendations from the two of you any day, so when I'm through Tad Williams MSaT (well over half way) I'll go to an antiquary bookshop and pick me up some Vonnegut. After reading FR of course!
"I would have gone to the thesaurus for a more erudite word."
-Hashi Lebwohl
-Hashi Lebwohl
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
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And when you're finished with those, Prebe, read "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater". That's the one where Vonnegut gets rid of all his stock characters....
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oooh yeah...and don't forget
howard w campbell, jr. is one of vonnegut's best characters!!!
howard w campbell, jr. is one of vonnegut's best characters!!!
Literary devices
Throughout the novel Vonnegut uses metafiction devices to blur the line between pretence and reality; for example, the book's dedication is to Mata Hari, and in the text we read that the dedication is Campbell's: "She whored in the interests of espionage, and so did I." Similarly, Vonnegut's introduction treats Campbell's memoir as a genuine historical document, and claims that certain chapters have been censored due to pornography or fears of libel.
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
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They're all good. I tried to get my kids to read "Breakfast of Champions" -- told them there was a picture of an a**hole in it, thinking that would pique their interest. Alas, kids today have no time for reading the classics.... 
EZ Board Survivor
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see! that's what i love about vonnegut. there's something for everyone.
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~