04-06-2005 06:37									#61
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Cross-posted to my LJ.

And:

I am: Isaac Asimov One of the most prolific writers in history, on any imaginable subject. Cared little for art but created lasting and memorable tales.

	04-06-2005 06:49									#62
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I got a copy at Borders a few years back that includes both L&FM & SM.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...=books&n=507846

	04-06-2005 07:24									#63
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I never read Sci Fi, but:

I am: 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.

	04-06-2005 16:01									#64
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quote: Originally posted by Krill Who the Hell is he?

A writer who came to fame during the British New Wave of science fiction in the mid 60s to early 70s, best known for 'The Sheep Look Up' and 'Stand on Zanzibar', and also 'The Shockwave Rider' which has the best claim to be the precursor of cyberpunk.

He dealt with overpopulation, media control, urban life and the concomitant stresses on human civilization and the environment.

	04-06-2005 16:08									#65
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quote: Originally posted by Spiffor Who's she?

Someone I think you'd enjoy reading.


A favourite author of mine and Ramo's, the work of hers I think you'd most enjoy is 'The Dispossessed' about a dual planetary system where one planet is clearly meant to resemble modern Earth, with capitalist economies, third world dictatorships and worker unrest, and the other has has been used as a dumping ground for the begetters of an anarcho-syndicalist revolution.


Her main interests are anarchism, biology-sociology-anthropology and feminism and human sexuality.

Her book 'The Left Hand of Darkness' is steeped in Taoist philosophy and benefits also from her reading of Kropotkin and Goldman, and envisages a society where humans are hermaphroditic, and the menstrual cycle has been replaced with a 'gender' cycle, so that each 'month' people have the possibility of becoming sexual and male or female, but for most of the time are sexually inactive and 'neuter' .

	04-06-2005 16:14									#66
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Greg Benford, ap'rently.

	04-06-2005 16:54									#67
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quote: "The Dispossessed" about an Einstein-like mathematician raised by a communist society on his planet's moon.

A physicist (yes, like Einstein) raised in an anarcho-syndicalist society.

Sometimes I think that the book was tailor-written for me.

	04-06-2005 16:55									#68
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At least it looks as if the creator of the test knows his sci-fi. But where's the Harlan Ellison selection for the Agathon/Ashers of the world??

	05-06-2005 04:54									#69
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I am: E.E. "Doc" Smith The inventor of space opera. His purple space war tales remain well-read generations later.

	05-06-2005 05:39									#70
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I am: Ayn Rand (Alissa Rosenbaum) This charismatic cult leader occasionally used science fiction as one of her recruiting tools for new converts.

	05-06-2005 06:01									#72
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I am: Gregory Benford A master literary stylist who is also a working scientist.

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quote: Originally posted by molly bloom A favourite author of mine and Ramo's, the work of hers [Ursula K. LeGuin] I think you'd most enjoy is 'The Dispossessed' about a dual planetary system where one planet is clearly meant to resemble modern Earth, with capitalist economies, third world dictatorships and worker unrest, and the other has has been used as a dumping ground for the begetters of an anarcho-syndicalist revolution. Her main interests are anarchism, biology-sociology-anthropology and feminism and human sexuality. Her book 'The Left Hand of Darkness' is steeped in Taoist philosophy and benefits also from her reading of Kropotkin and Goldman, and envisages a society where humans are hermaphroditic, and the menstrual cycle has been replaced with a 'gender' cycle, so that each 'month' people have the possibility of becoming sexual and male or female, but for most of the time are sexually inactive and 'neuter' .

She also wrote one of my fave sf books, The Lathe of Heaven, about a man who discovers his dreams actually change the world, and the psychiatrist who tries to wield this "tool" to make a better world.