I think I remember E.E. 'Doc Smith' :P

Other than him, I'd agree mostly with quite a few other people here -

Arthur C. Clarke, Frank Herbert for the 6 Dune books, Isaac Asimov for the Foundation series and the Robot books (the movie I, Robot was nothing like the book, btw!!), Douglas Adams of course - I'm going mad though maybe - I thought there were only 4 in the HHGTTG series, the last being "So long, and thanks for all the fish", Anne McCaffrey for the Dragon series (maybe she's more Science Fantasy than Fiction though..). Ummm.. lot's of others would be worth a mention, but I'll shut up!
Never read L.Ron Hubbard, I'm afraid, I heard he was something of a religious nutter, so I avoided him - lol!

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- Arthur Clarke
- Stephen Baxter
- Isaac Asimov
- H.G. Wells

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I have to say my favorites are the "big three", Asimov, Heinlein, and Clarke.

Clarke just has great, largely "hard science" stories like The Deep Range or the Rama series. If you try to read Childhood's End though, and you really "get into" stories, prepare to be depressed.

Asimov's stories are amazing to me. His prose is nothing spectacular, but I'll finish a story and it'll hit me like a freight train, "Man that was a good story!" Read a short story called Gold and you'll see what I mean.

Heinlein is especially a favorite for Starship Troopers, which not only was a fun read but kinda cemented in my mind what I believe is the way things should be: in all aspects of society one should not be allowed to lead until at some time in their life they had to put the group before themselves.

Ursula K. LeGuin. More fantasy than SF.

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Actually as well, I've got to say, one of the best SciFi novels ever was Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card. An absolutely fabulous book - definately in my all-time top ten :) You should read it!

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Anne Mccaffrey, Heinlein, Clarke, Tokien nit necessarily in that order.

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I agree with all them, Celtic Wolf, but you can't really argue that J.R.R.Tolkien was a Science Fiction writer :)
I think in the UK at least, Lord of the Rings was voted the best book of the 20th century, and personally I'd go along with that, but he wasn't a scifi writer!

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> I agree with all them, Celtic Wolf, but you can't really argue that
> J.R.R.Tolkien was a Science Fiction writer :)
> I think in the UK at least, Lord of the Rings was voted the best book of the
> 20th century, and personally I'd go along with that, but he wasn't a scifi
> writer!
>

Well in that case either can Mccaffrey!! However, the defination of Sci-Fi includes Fantasy of the type of the Dragon Riders and those of Middle Earth.

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The line between scifi and fantasy is rather ambiguous. I remember reading one of McCaffrey's books that explained in scifi terms the origins of the dragons and dragonriders. My science fiction teacher (yes, we actually had a course in science fiction in high school) even once tried to convince all of us that Star Wars could not be considered scifi at all because they completely disregarded a plethora of known physical laws in the movies, eg, walking out in what should be a hard vacuum with just a breath mask in ESB, so it has to be fantasy.

I read "Man in the High Castle" by Philip K Dick. That was in the Scifi section, but is really just alternate history fiction.

My personal definition is that science fiction is just a subset of the fantasy genre that places some restrictions on the scientific feasibility of the story.

> Douglas Adams of course - I'm going mad though maybe - I thought
> there were only 4 in the HHGTTG series, the last being "So long, and thanks
> for all the fish"

5. Mostly Harmless
6. The Salmon of Doubt (Published posthum, and just a big fragment, I agree, but nevertheless...:-)

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Most of my favourites were already mentioned here:

- Philip K Dick
- Stanislaw Lem
- Stephen Baxter
- William Gibson
- U.K LeGuin

I'd like to add

Arkadi & Boris Strugatzki

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> Now some of his work was barely readable or worse, but I really enjoyed L. Ron
> Hubbard's Battlefield Earth. I spent a weekend and a couple of nights after
> work reading the 1064 pages or whatever. There were some parts where I felt
> that I was Johnny Goodboy Tyler, and the rest of the book that I was just
> there with him.
> The movie left way too much out.
>
> Glenn.
>
>
I agree, the book was absolutely brilliant! I have intentionally NOT watched the movie because I don't want to spoil the fantasy of it all in my head :)

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I can't believe no-one has mentioned Greg Bear?! Eon, Forge Of God and their follow-up books were deep, heavy physics-based stuff that really made you think.

I would honestly be prepared to assure anyone and everyone to buy Forge Of God (and the sequels) if they love Sci-Fi :)

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and Clifford D. Simak... :)

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William Gibson is my favorite.
My roomate even named his Red Nose Pit Gibson after him.
But I also like Ray Bradbury.

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-Tad Williams (Otherland Series is great)
-William Gibson
-Jack L. Chalker (Well of Souls Series is great)
-Alan Dean Foster
-Orson Scott Card

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> > Douglas Adams of course - I'm going mad though maybe - I thought
> > there were only 4 in the HHGTTG series, the last being "So long, and
> thanks
> > for all the fish"
>
> 5. Mostly Harmless
> 6. The Salmon of Doubt (Published posthum, and just a big fragment, I agree,
> but nevertheless...:-)
>
Did you read The Salmon of Doubt?
As far as I know this is the "would be" part 3 of the Dirk Gently series togheter with a collection of essays and stuff, found on DNA's Apple.
But I didn't read it myself, so I could be wrong there.

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