Hi. I just want to get this group started by posting an initial article. Here are some questions/topics for discussion. Take them and run with them if you want to, or ignore them and do your own thing if you prefer:
Favorite science fiction authors?
Science fiction authors you can't stand?
New science fiction authors you enjoy?
Favorite authors outside the genre?
Finds (obscure stuff that you love)?
Science Fiction on Gather (published authors with a Gather presence, good science fiction posted to Gather)?
Favorite/least favorite authors from outside the genre?
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I stopped in to say merry chirstmas to you and yours.
Sorry, don't do Sci Fi
Science fiction authors you can't stand?
ditto
New science fiction authors you enjoy?
give me names of a few I should try
Favorite authors outside the genre?
Tayor Caldwell, am I dating myself?
Finds (obscure stuff that you love)?
I'm thinking!
Science Fiction on Gather (published authors with a Gather presence, good science fiction posted to Gather)?
Sorry I don't fit the catagory but wanted to say Merry Christmas and who knows, maybe you will get me into Science Fiction!
Happy New Year too.
Mary Mc
Favorite/least favorite authors from outside the genre?
Mary Mc
Some favorites include Samuel R (Chip) Delany, Robert Sliverberg, John Brunner, Neil Stephenson, Orson Scott Card, Ursula LeGuin, Bruce Sterling and William Gibson.
My original roots were Asimov, Heinlein, C.M. Kornbluth, Fred Pohl, Ted Sturgeon and Clifford Simak and others.
Most erratic SF author: Philip K Dick. Loved the Man in the High Castle and the Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (?).
Like some of Harlan Ellison, but also found him to be erratic.
Also, liked most of John Brunner. Shockwave Rider predicted most of Web 2.0 before most people even knew there was an Internet. Check it out!
I read a lot of Heinlein and Keith Laumer as a punk kid.
James: The first two books in the Riverworld series were extremely good. I think the second one was The Fabulous Riverboat. I remember looking forward to the third book for months. When it finally came out it was--not awful but bloated. It went into so many subplots that the core of the story got lost. Worst yet, it made almost no progress toward solving the core mystery. The fourth book was typical Farmer ending, with him destroying much of the interesting world he had created for no compelling reason.
I just read Robert J. Sawyer's Hominids and I really enjoyed the story about Neanderthals from a parallel universe visiting earth after a physics experiment gone wrong.
If you're into the classics, try Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness (1969). It's about a planet where people regularly change their gender. It's simply mind-blowing.
I'm also a big fan of Orson Scott Card. Start with Ender's Game and keep going.
Ray Bradbury is probably my all-time favorite, and P.K. Dick is a close, close second. Weird combination, huh? Others are Heinlein, Silverberg, LeGuin, Asimov (perhaps the sine qua non of sci-fi?), and I can't remember any others right now but they'll probably come back to me eventually.
Okay, I'm going to have to disagree with Angela B. I do not like Ray Bradbury at all. I think it's because I read his short story about the girl being locked in the room and missing the sunshine's only appearance in her lifetime. I can't stand locked doors.
Good luck with your new group. I'll point all science fiction fans your way.
Happy New Year!
i want you to know that i appreciate your comment to "Not Goodbye"
i'd like to join your group but find other that asimov,arthur c clarke, michael crichton
there are not too many more i know or have read..oh bradbury
i once loved sci fi genre ..better than horror.(although stephen king's earlier stuff were favorites growing up)
now i love historical non fiction,any thing to do with fly fishing, archeological /anthropological periodicals and publications ,( some pretty wild stuff went on way back when!)physical science junk,astronomy is a budding interest...
but i plan to check you out and read more of your'stuff'
who knows,i may have found my latest sci-fi author?
:)