Which Science Fiction Author is Your Favorite?

The people who wrote this :)

I was just scrolling down and S/H took my vote away from me.
So I am putting in two votes.
One for Robert Heinlein and one for Isaac Asimov.

No offense but WHERE is William F. Nolan, Richard Matheson or Charles Beaumont on this list?!

No offense taken. I ran out of room.

I meant to vote for Bradbury on here.

Phillip K. Dick http://www.philipkdickfans.co...

It's a shame you added Ayn Rand here. She wan't much of a science fiction writer, at least not like Heinlein or Asimov. I like both equally though, they managed to paint a vivid picture. Rand; in the here and now, Heinlein: in the not so distant future. Both had a great political philosophy.

"Atlas Shrugged" was required reading in my college level Science Fiction class.

OK

douglas adams.

John Ringo

H.G. Wells and Jules Verne were the best.

Arthur C. Clarke

Larry Niven.

Ring World

Great series. Also, he wrote one of my all time favorite short stories, "Inconstant Moon".

His greatest wealth of writings has yet to be published. He has 100's of short stories, manuscripts and novels yet to be edited in the archives of his library. Unfortunately has been dead since 1988.

Well, not the "greatest wealth" of his work, by any means.

Get into the Heinlein Society's Web site (http://www.heinleinsociety.o... and poke around a bit.

William Patterson (see http://www.whpattersonjr.com/ ) is Heinlein's official biographer, and reported last year his progress with the manuscript of the second and last volume of his extensive examination of Heinlein's life and work. Unfortunately, he also reported his own health complications, and I have no ready appreciation of when that second volume can be expected to see print.

Patterson's first volume thus far (released in 2010) has generated a buncha contumely in fandom in which I haven't much participated as yet. Damned interesting stuff in the years 1907-1948 of Heinlein's life, though.

In the 1959 and 1960 I met him at a beach park in Santa Cruz, CA I was just a kid, but I loved to read. I had seen his picture in a Scientific American and recognized him. I have several of his books autographed by him. My favoriate of his novels is Red Planet. Second favoriate is Star Beast and third is Orphans in the Sky. Of course Farnham's Freehold is right up there too. I have an entire collection of his books in hardback.

In the 70's & 80's...now he's losing it!

I totally agree.

My son gave me "The Black House" in the early 2000's...i still,to this day,cannot finish it.

Douglas Adams

I'm not really into Science fiction, but I have read many of Ray Bradbury's books and Stephen King.

Heinlein first, last and always.

--
"The great trouble with religion — any religion — is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason — but one cannot have both."
--

My grandfather left me a collection of Poe's works after he passed. I've been in love with the man's writing since then.

Heinlein may have a tendency to put a dress on a man and call him a girl in his stories, but he kicks A$$ when it comes to explaining our freedoms and how to keep them.

HG Wells and Jules Verne would be a tie both wrote excellent Scifi b4 many of the things they wrote about were even thought of.

Hands down

None better!

I've got to go with Asimov. He wrote some really good stuff both in fiction and in nonfiction.

He was also a helluva lot of fun IRL.

he also had the most epic sideburns i have ever seen

Philip K. Dick

You left out the greatest of them all, Philip K. Dick

I know. I have only read "A Scanner Darkly." But I know him from his films. I loved "Minority Report."

A Scanner Darkly and Valis are his two best books.