Poll: Favorite Sci-fi Author

[Orcus The Ultimate]

ok, here i go:
Between only those famous authors, which one, does your mind admires the most?
and say why please?

 

[Avatar Roku]

Only between those? Well, of them, I've only read H.G. Wells, so I guess him. I'd say David Weber if it didn't have to be one of them, though.

 

[Dudemeister]

Lovecraft, because he writes about HORRORS TOO TERRIFYING TO IMAGINE, TO LOOK UPON THEM IS TO KNOW MADNESS!

 

[oliveira8]

Frank Herbert. He is better than all those 6 combined.(Not really...)Dune is epic. And it's a crime to leave him out.

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

shit on me, i can't decide between Lovecraft, Asimov and Huxley...

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

Frank Herbert. He is better than all those 6 combined.(Not really...)Dune is epic. And it's a crime to leave him out.

yeah sorry, i just wanted a few...

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

ok Cthulhu Rising!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY9fLCeEYPs

 

[Avatar Roku]

Frank Herbert. He is better than all those 6 combined.(Not really...)Dune is epic. And it's a crime to leave him out.

My favorite Sci Fi author is still Weber, but I do have to give Herbert an honorable mention, I just started God Emperor of Dune, and I'm loving the series.

 

[Cherry Cola]

George Orwell.

He wrote 1984! That's technically sci-fi.

Wait, we can only choose between those?

That makes this thread more boring if you ask me...

I'll say Lovecraft.

 

[The Warden]

I don't find the Star Wars Death Trooper book too bad, so I'll go with the author behind that.

 

[Indecizion]

HG wells is the only one ive read, but then i read more fantasy than sci fi so meh.

 

[TheStickman]

I've only read H.G. Wells so I vote for him.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

Interesting list.

By interesting list I mean, damn it, where are the options for Philip K Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, Vernor Vinge, Neil Gaiman, Alfred Bester, Olaf Stapledon, Charles Stross and so on.

 

[quantum mechanic]

I tend to read more recent sci-fi authors like Iain M. Banks and Neal Stephenson, so H.G. Wells wins by default due to the amazing Orson Welles radio version of "War of the Worlds."

Plus I love the idea that the killer Martians are defeated by common bacteria.

 

[Flames66]

None of the above. At the moment it's Karen Traviss.

 

[TheDoctor455]

Why must you make me choose?
I love H.G. Wells, Lovecraft, and Asminov!

 

[StriderShinryu]

William Gibson, easily. I love most of his work both for the ideas presented as well as the writing.

 

[Go Fighting In The War Room]

In the year A.F 614, the world has been split into 5 castes... Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon...

Aldous Huxley forever.

Also...

My Palmflower is black. It`s time to run...

 

[Skarvig]

WTF! Are you serious? Lovecraft is not, and I say absolutly not! Sci-Fi.
All his stories are placed in the 19th century and that is not science fiction. H.P. Lovecraft is Horror. Some authors who were inspired by Loveraft were Sci-Fi authors but not Lovecraft himself. You fail at so many levels!

That's why I voted for Wells, his "War of the Worlds" was just epic.

 

[oliveira8]

Frank Herbert. He is better than all those 6 combined.(Not really...)Dune is epic. And it's a crime to leave him out.

My favorite Sci Fi author is still Weber, but I do have to give Herbert an honorable mention, I just started God Emperor of Dune, and I'm loving the series.

Don't read anything Dune related past Chapterhouseune, which was Frank's last book. Sadly the Dune series was never concluded, as Frank died before finishing the last book. So don't buy Dune books that don't have Frank Herbert name on it. Stay away from Brian "I murdered my fathers work" Herbert and Kevin J. Hackanderson Dune books. STAY AWAY!
If you ever finish Chapterhouse, just make your own ending, it's guaranteed that will be better than that crap Brian and Kevin conjured up.

But anyway, I'l pick Lovecraft from the list.