Kevin's Watch

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.

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'.

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'.

That might explain why I like them both so much.

Still, compared to Heinlein, Niven "looks like a f***ing socialist".

Ursula K. LeGuin

Isaac Asimov here.

Stanislav 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.

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.

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

Kurt Vonnegut

Never read him myself. Is it any good?

Took the test again. (Forgot I took it before) With the same results.



<b> E.E. "Doc" Smith </b>

The inventor of space opera.
His purple space war tales remain well-read generations later.

Prebe, I'm pretty sure you'd like Vonnegut.

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:



and

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!

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....

oooh yeah...and don't forget



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.

I love Sirens, but I'm partial to Player Piano--FTS!!!

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....

Vonnegut's freaking great. My favorite, though has gotta be Jailbird. Hysterical.

see! that's what i love about vonnegut. there's something for everyone.