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Which Science Fiction Writer are you?
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:27 pm
by Loredoctor
paulkienitz.net/skiffy.html
I got:
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.
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:33 pm
by Waddley
I'm Gregory Benford
"A master literary stylist who is also a working scientist"
Uh... woot??
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:33 pm
by Loredoctor
Waddley Hasselhoff wrote:I'm Gregory Benford
"A master literary stylist who is also a working scientist"
Uh... woot??
Benford is an excellent writer.
Timescape is a masterpiece.
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:41 pm
by Waddley
Yay! Then I retract my "Uh... woot?" and repalce it with a "WOOT!"
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:44 pm
by Loredoctor
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:58 pm
by Warmark
Jerry Pournelle
This old-fashioned writer may be the most unapologetic capitalist in the field. He has also been influential in many other fields, from space policy to the computer industry
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:59 pm
by Damelon
Isaac Asimov
One of the most prolific writers in history, on any imaginable subject. Cared little for art but created lasting and memorable tales.
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:12 pm
by danlo
I'm Benford too, it's odd that Wadds and I come out the same on some of these polls...
I got Cordwainder Smith on another such poll...
~grandfather of space opera~
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:17 pm
by Waddley
It's because I'm really you, danlo!
You knew that.
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:22 pm
by Farm Ur-Ted
I'm that benford guy, too. I wonder how they figured that I'm a working scientist, too? Bums didn't even list chemistry in the favorite field question.
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:35 pm
by Cameraman Jenn
I'm James Tiptee Jr (Alice B. Sheldon)
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:45 pm
by Loredoctor
Waddley Hasselhoff wrote:It's because I'm really you, danlo!
You knew that.
Oh god.
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:47 pm
by I'm Murrin
I got Alfred Bester. In think I did this one a couple of weeks ago when it was going around blogs I read, and got a different result--but I can't remember what it was.
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:43 am
by A Gunslinger
John Brunner
His best known works are dystopias -- vivid realizations of the futures we want to avoid.
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:40 am
by Avatar
Robert A. Heinlein
Beginning with technological action stories and progressing to epics with religious overtones, this take-no-prisoners writer racked up some huge sales numbers.
One of my favourite Sci-Fi authors.
--A
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:33 am
by Vain
Isaac Asimov - I'm pleased
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:08 pm
by aTOMiC2
Robert A. Heinlein
Beginning with technological action stories and progressing to epics with religious overtones, this take-no-prisoners writer racked up some huge sales numbers.
Nice.
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:42 pm
by danlo
I took it again and answered everything differently except "astro physics" and got Benford again...my theory has been proven!
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:20 pm
by lucimay
ugh. David Brinn. blech.
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:33 pm
by danlo
You don't like Brin!!!??? well, he really
is an astro physicist, anyway...
