Favorite Sci-fi writers

[rocklobster]

Who are your favorite Sci-fi writers? Here are mine:

• Arthur C. Clarke
• C.S. Lewis
• Isaac Asimov
• Ray Bradbury
• Piers Anthony
• Robert A. Heinlein

[Valkaiser]

C. J. Cherryh!!!

Isaac Asimov
Arthur C. Clarke
Robert A. Heinlein

Those are the only Sci-fi authors I can remember that I have read multiple works of. All the others that I remember were just single books.

[Alice]

Lester del Rey.
Heinlein (only for children's books)
Bradbury

Can't think of others at the moment.

[mitsuki lover]

*Piers Anthony
*Robert A.Heinlein
*H.G.Wells
*C.S.Lewis
*J.R.R.Tolkien(I know LOTR is fantasy but since they're related..)
*Diane Duane
*Ann McCafferty
*Isaac Asimov
*George Alec Effinger(for his Maureen Birnbaum,Barbarian Swordsperson stories
plus the short story:The Aliens Who Knew Like Totally Everything)
*Margaret Ball

[Tancos]

Gene Wolfe
R.A. Lafferty
Philip K. Dick
William Tenn
John Sladek
Joanna Russ
Ursula K. LeGuin
... and others I'll think of later.

[Aileen Kailum]

Timothy Zahn
Kathy Tyers
C. S. Lewis

And one other whose name escapes me at the moment.

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

H.G. Wells
Jules Verne
Timothy Zahn
Kevin J Anderson
C. S. Lewis
Sean Williams
Garth Nix
Philip K Dick

[mitsuki lover]

I know it's not Sci Fi but Morgan Llweyen has done a series of novels based on
Celtic mythology including Red Branch and Finn McCool.

[Shao Feng-Li]

Timothy Zahn

Kevin J. Anderson

H.G. Wells

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

I admire the intelligence and creativity of Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asmiov, but I found their stories so boring and empty (emotionally). I guess for me to enjoy a book I have to have some emotional tie with it and they just don't have any.
Philip K Dick is borderline. He has great ideas and some good emotion in there.

[rocklobster]

Not to mention, his stories make great movies. Blade Runner, anyone?

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

I know! I also enjoyed Minority Report a lot.

[mitsuki lover]

The actual title of the book that inspired Blade Runner was:Do Androids Dream Of
Electronic Sheep?
It should be noted that Blade Runner was also supposed to be part of the inspiration for Bubblegum Crisis.

[the_lizardqueen]

Would Douglas Adams count? *you probably all saw this mention coming from a mile away-*

[Fish and Chips]

Douglas Adams and Ray Bradbury are all who come to mind. I don't read much science-fiction.

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

Dang! I forgot Douglas Adams! *punches self*

[Alice]

I actually don't think I've ever read Douglas Adams.

When I was younger, I was pretty sure he wrote blasphemous stuff, so I never read it. And I've never read any since I got older, although I've thought about it. There's inertia involved, and the fact that I can't just pick up his first book at the library, plus I suppose I'm still a bit uncertain about his sarcasms about God.

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

Well, he's heavily humanistic but most of what he says about God isn't meant to be taken seriously I think. It's humour for a reason.

[Fish and Chips]

I salute the man's works, but not that man himself. He described himself as a "Radical Atheist" so people would quit asking if he meant Agnostic.

[bigsleepj]

I'm not heavily into science fiction, but I have a few authors.

• Douglas Adams (should read more)
• CS Lewis (I wish he wrote more science fiction)
• Gene Wolfe (an excellent writer, but at times maybe too self-consiously difficult for his own good)
• Philip K Dick (what little I've read of him)

[Sammy Boy]

In order of preference:

Kevin J. Anderson
Timothy Zahn
Isaac Asimov
Robert Silverberg
Arthur C. Clarke

[craner]

C.S. Lewis (Cosmic Trilogy and Narnia)

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

Narnia's not Sci-Fi!

[Maledicte]

Richard Paul Russo--author of the Carlucci trilogy. Cyberpunk mysteries that I actually like.

H.G. Wells--The Time Machine? Good. The Invisible Man? Even better. War of the Worlds? Awesome!

Alan Dean Foster--some of his stuff is cute. Jed the Dead lol.

Frank Herbert--DUNE!! I did like his son's Legends of Dune series, too.