Who Is your favourite Sci Fi author ?

[BGFG]

Mine is Neil Stephenson. Pure genius...I strongly recommend
Snow Crash - Blew My mind
Diamond Age - Insane
Cryptonomicon - The protagonist, in one scene, describes whe he uses BeOS, Unix, and other os'es for hacking and whatnot.

For the best combination of scientific reality, theory, and out of this world tech spun with fantastic genius, Pick any Neil Stephenson and have a read.

Can't find the time to work through the Baroque Cycle yet, another Stephenson trilogy...

[crimesaucer]

I haven't read much Science Fiction.... just a few Robert A. Heinlein novels like "Stranger in a Strange Land" and "Methuselah's Children". (and one L. Ron Hubbard book that wasn't that bad.... it was "The Invaders Plan" of the Mission Earth series).... Douglas Adams was cool too.


I plan on reading a lot of Philip K. **** soon. I also want to read all of the DUNE books.

[Toffeeapple]

I don't read much SF nowadays but I used to like..

Larry Niven - First two Ringworld books, Protector, A world Out Of Time, Integral trees and lots more.

Clifford D. Simack - Way Station, Shakespeare's Planet, Destiny Doll and loads more.

[jr3us]

I'm going classic SciFi... Isaac Asimov for his Foundation series, Robot series, and all the short stories he did in the 40s/50s.

Also Michael Crichton for the books that had all the story before the movies came out.

[smartboyathome]

I would have to say, atm, Madeline L'Engle is my favorite. She did fantastic work on her time quartet and many of her other books (I've read most of them, in fact ). I just watched the movie "Contact" by Carl Sagan, though, and have liked his show Cosmos, so I am planning on reading some of his books next.

[GCG199]

I'll have to go with Robert A. Heinlein and L. Neil Smith [Smith is highly influenced by Heinlein].

I have read a few of their books and have a lot more to read still.

[bobmitch]

Asimov was my first, and favourite for many years.
Nowadays, I`d probably have to go for either Ian M Banks or Peter F Hamilton.

[PartisanEntity]

Philip K. **** and Neal Asher are two of my favourites, although I also like Arthur C. Clarke, Iain M. Banks, some of Isaac Asimov and Richard Paul Russo.

[ksennin]

Samuel Delany, Roger Zelazny and Iain M. Banks.

[cariboo]

I love space opera, David Weber and John Ringo.

Jim