Question:
does anyone like the old sci fi authors, if so which are your particular favourites, like ray bradbury?
muffinisis
2009-06-11 12:36:35 UTC
asimov, h g wells, greg bear, alan dean foster, david eddings, terry brooks,
Fourteen answers:
Pedestal 42
2009-06-11 12:55:37 UTC
I cut my teeth on Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke,

For re-reading the latter has lasted better. "Tales from the White Hart"

"Report on planet three", though to 2001 and beyond.



Heinlein, of course, from his classic "By his bootstraps" to "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress...



The great romp which is the Lensman series of E E "Doc" Smith...

T H White's "Sector General" stories.



P K Dick at his most nightmarish,

Piper in Paratime,



Roger Zelazny, Keith Laumer...

Saberhagen's Beserkers

The Bolos of the Dinochrome brigade, Hammer's Slammers...



Brin's Uplift Wars.

And more and more.



These new writers have a lot to live up to.
twilight equals Buffy fan fic
2009-06-11 13:30:28 UTC
Foster is old school now? Well this isn't a top ten, more what occurs to me today.



Ok Heinlein, why flog it, everyone will say him.



Poul Anderson, nobody ever seems to plug him like they should. The guy produced scif-fi, fantasy, historical fiction, and some of the best modern versions of the eddas I've read.



Fritz Leiber, the Big Time, One of the best time travel books ever written.



Frank Herbert, the Dune series, before his son got a hold of it and mucked it up. As a whole it is an almost overwhelming commentary on immortality.



Cordwainer Smith, now this is old school. Instrumentality of Mankind is one of those books you wonder why nobody has ever made a movie of.



Fredrick Pohl

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C.M. Kornbluth Try the Space Merchants or Gladiator-at-law,



Gordon Dickinson His Dorsai series might not always hit, but you have to admire the scope. Plenty of his non-series books surpass it as well such as the dragon and the George.



Harry Harrison. His Stainless Steel Rat stories are iconic, once again, how is it that these are not a money making movie franchise? Can they only make comic books?



H. Beam Piper. I swear people could identify my screen names based by searching this name in answers and assuming every recommendation is mine. I'm a partisan for this guy. Read the man who Jerry Pournelle has spent a lifetime aping. the best thing? A fair number of his stories are free on Project Gutenberg due to a legal snafu. Next time you're bored at work, go read some of them.







New school just tossed in

Roger Zelazny, still one of the best fantasy and sci-fi writers

William Gibson, if Foster is old school, then so is Gibson these days.

Joan Vinge

Keith Laumer, any war sci-fi fan , his Bolo should be required reading.

OK, if foster makes your list, and I admit I enjoy his light stories, than Jack Chalker should get a mention.

Melinda Snodgrass, sure she sold out and went TV, but Dreamsnake is still a very haunting novel and it deserved every award it won.

John Varley Titan & sequels, as well as his Mars books

theodore Sturgeon, well he might not be new school, but he always seemed modern to me

Phillip K. Dick, same as Sturgeon, just seems modern

Ursula Le Guin, Left Hand still blows minds today





OK so my old and new school blurs quite a bit, but at least I didn't mention anyone real young.



Ending today's rant
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2016-05-27 03:05:36 UTC
Larry Niven Orson Scott Card Robert A Heinlein and Ray Bradbury
The Road goes ever on
2009-06-11 12:44:23 UTC
My favorite type of sci-fi is the old-fashion kind, the books written by those 'older' authors. One of my favorite authors of sci-fi is Edgar Rice Burroughs. I really enjoyed his book called The Moon Maid, and I have a whole stack of his books waiting to be read in the next couple of weeks.



Best wishes!
anonymous
2009-06-11 14:55:53 UTC
YEP,I started in 1947 with WELLS ,Burroughs,and most of the DUNE stories,and A .C. CLARK. Looking back now, i can not help feeling amazed at how many of their VISIONS have become reality,like rockets to the moon, and planets,space stations, and even space walks.I am getting on a bit now, but i would love to live long enough to see them bring home to earth a life form we could recognise,and Communicate with,as long as they do not just talk football and politics .
mighty_mic_53
2009-06-11 20:26:01 UTC
You have already added some of my favorite oldies (Edgar Rice Burroughs & E.E. (Doc) Smith) but I can still provide a few more you might enjoy. I would also have mentioned Asimov, Dickson, Harrison, Laumer, Anthony, Foster, Card, Heinlien, Pohl, Brin and Clarke had they not already been mentioned.



Some not mentioned I reccomend:



Almost anything by Jerry Pournelle.



"Cross-Time Engineer / Conrad Stargard" series by Leo Frankowski

in which a twentieth-century engineer travels back in time to thirteenth-century Poland. The series begins with "The Cross-Time Engineer"



The "Sand Wars" series by Charles Ingrid

which begins with "Solar Kill" (1987)



The "Sten" series by Chris Bunch & Allen Cole

which begins with "Sten" (1982)



The "Foreigner" series by C.J Cherryh

which begins with "Foreigner" (1994)



The "Chanur" series by C.J. Cherryh

which begins with "The Pride of Chanur" (1981)



The "Sam McCade" series by William C. Dietz

which begins with "War World" (1986)



"The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman



The "Rim World" series by A. Bertram Chandler

which begins with "The Rim of Space" (1961)



The "Regiment" series by John Dalmas

which begins with "Regiment" (1987)



The "War Against the Chtorr" series by David Gerrold

which begins with "A Matter for Men" (1983)



The "Small Colonial War" Series by Robert Frezza

which begins with "A Small Colonial War" (1989)



"The Helmsman Saga" by Bill Baldwin

which begins with "The Helmsman" (1985)



The "Mageworld" series by Debra Doyle

which begins with "By Honor Betray'd"



"Chronicles of Gor" series by John Norman

which begins with Tarnsman of Gor (1966)

Sort of overlaps with the Fantasy genre, much as Edgar Rice Burroughs does. The first dozen ot so were great (Of course I read them in college so keep that in mind.) but he must have had a really bad run in with a woman at some point, because the later books take a definite negative slant on women. However, that does not take away from the worth of the earlier books. It is my opinion that the Pern books of Anne McCaffery were likely influenced by the "Riding Birds" of Gor.



The "Callisto" series by Lin Carter

which begins with Jandar of Callisto (1972)



The "Gondwane" series by Lin Carter

which begins with "The Warrior of World's End" (1974)





Some FANTASY novels that you might enjoy are:



"King Kull" series by Robert E. Howard

which begins with "King Kull" (1967)



"Conan the Barbarian" series by Robert E. Howard



The "Horseclans" series by Robert Adams

which begins with The Coming of the Horseclans (1975)



Almost anything by R.A. Salvatore



You did not give a range of OLD so I figured anyone who went back at least 10-20 years would qualify.



More recently in the Fantasy realm I have LOVED

anything written by David Gemmell.
anonymous
2009-06-11 12:40:44 UTC
Yes! I love Orson Scott Card and Alan Dean Foster!
El Hombre de los Libros
2009-06-11 12:40:59 UTC
Edgar Rice Burrows

Tarzan

Outlaw of Torn

AWESOME
Windrider unchained M.A.M.
2009-06-11 15:05:31 UTC
I like David Eddings and Anne McCaffrey. With my utter favourite being Mercedes Lackey.
chorle
2009-06-11 13:07:53 UTC
I like Robert Asprin, Doug Adams, and Pierce Anthony but I don't know if I would call them old.

There are things plan to see at http://www.sffaudio.com/ if I ever caught up on podiobooks.com



I like many of Heinlein's books and Ray Bradbury and many of the stories in X Minus 1 http://xmone.libsyn.com/
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2009-06-11 12:43:41 UTC
Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is my favorite
Martin P
2009-06-11 12:47:32 UTC
H. G Wells is my favorite, then probaly Asimov.



Edgar Allen Poe kind of fits as in one story he describes a balloon ride to the moon. Poe is by far my favorite author.
davches
2009-06-11 14:17:51 UTC
Theodore Sturgeon. The first one I read is still my favorite, "More Than Human".
los
2009-06-12 02:56:44 UTC
Cordwainer Smith, the greatest of them all...


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