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| | | (...) Not without doing some digging(0). Plus it varies according to taste. Lately I like the "killer B's"...(1) they all are within a "few" years of that mark, as compared to the grand masters you name (whether I'd put Chalker up there is a (...) (20 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: ( (Good SF authors) != (young SF authors) ) ?? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (snip) So, further, while I was chasing that question, I thought of another favorite of mine, one who hasn't gotten too much press because he hasn't written a lot, so I thought maybe he's young enough to qualify... Steven Gould. He wrote (...) (20 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: ( (Good SF authors) != (young SF authors) ) ?? —David Koudys
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| | | | | | In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> Byron(1). Nice. Dave K 1-Sometimes that disturbs me, that people drop names like that. Here's a writer that probably spent numerous months composing these fantastic poems and I (...) (20 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: ( (Good SF authors) != (young SF authors) ) ?? —David Koudys
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| | | | | (...) Thanks Larry! I did like the ring series by Chalker (though it was a long long time ago (in my teens) so I may be misremembering...) Thanks for the other info as well--I'll finish 'The Teeth and the Tiger' by Clancy and find some of those (...) (20 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: ( (Good SF authors) != (young SF authors) ) ?? —Kyle McDonald
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| | | | | | (...) How about Orson Scott Card. Ender's game, and many other very good (in My opinion anyway) Sci-Fi books. Not too dry, and not too much (but enough) science. -Kyle (...) (20 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: ( (Good SF authors) != (young SF authors) ) ?? —David Koudys
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| | | | | | | (...) My friends like him. My only time with OSC was the novel of "The Abyss" (at one time, my favourite movie, and the book is an excellent adaptation thereof) Thanks for advice. Dave K (20 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: ( (Good SF authors) != (young SF authors) ) ?? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | (...) Born in 1951, I think.(1) (...) Some people (2) really like him. (3) Some people find him a bit too preachy. ++Lar 1 - so does (URL) - me for instance. I usually have a preachyness detector but his mormonness doesn't come through strongly (...) (20 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: ( (Good SF authors) != (young SF authors) ) ?? —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | | | (...) My son is reading Ender's Game as I type this (page 200). I started after him and zoomed by him to page 273 (just put it down so he could go read it - he has to have it read for school by Sunday). I'd agree with your analysis. -->Bruce<-- (20 years ago, 20-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: ( (Good SF authors) != (young SF authors) ) ?? —David Laswell
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| | | | | | (...) I tried reading one of the Alvin Maker series a while back, and I just could not get into it at all. Aside from that, the only OSC books I've ever touched were in the Ender series. I wouldn't want to say that he's a good sci-fi author in (...) (20 years ago, 20-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: ( (Good SF authors) != (young SF authors) ) ?? —Frank Filz
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| | | | (...) Hmm, I'll have to check this out sometime. I just checked out my favorite SF author, CJ Cherryh, and I didn't find a birth date, but she received some kind of honors in 1960 and a degree in 1964 so clearly she was born before 1960. Another (...) (20 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: ( (Good SF authors) != (young SF authors) ) ?? —Dan Boger
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| | | | (...) 1942: (URL) the wikipedia!) (20 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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