I would have to pick two favourite authors from the SF genre: Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein. I would say the works of these two masters had a profound effect on the way I perceived the world as a child and now as a young woman. And I would say that they are indirectly connected to the reasons and the motivation I have for learning Perl now. | [reply] |
John Steinbeck.
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It's got to be Flann O'Brien.
Nothing whatsoever to do with computers at all., but The Third Policeman is one of the best books I ever experienced.
Oh yeah, and that's "Favourite Author" where I come from; for obvious reasons, "favorite" just starts me thinking of Bill... | [reply] |
Yay!! Vonnegut.. I like him, his stories seem to drift towards gentle farce. If you read Eden Express by Mark Vonnegut.. well it's not sci-fi but it's still pretty disturbing.
My favourite author is Philip K. Dick. he's the king of neurotic, dysfunctional familly sketches :)
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Brother Frankus. | [reply] |
Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series of detective novels are undoubtedly the best books I've ever read. And he wrote a phenomenal number of books (something like 40, spanning four or five decades), so by the time I finished the last one, I had forgotten the first one enough to read it again! | [reply] |
Merv Griffen! Err sorry wrong sketch, Larry Niven!
Close seconds are options NS and DNA, as well as Robert L. Forward.
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Flann O'Brien, Brian O'Nolan, Myles na Gopaleen - one voice,
one mind, one master. At Swim-Two-Birds verges on psychoactive. | [reply] |
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