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At least I'm not Heinlein

I am:

Stanislav Lem

This pessimistic Pole has spent a whole career telling ironic stories of futility and frustration. Yet he is also a master of wordplay so witty that it sparkles even when translated into English.

Which science fiction writer are you?

Quiz via Boing Boing

Futility and frustration! Must be Monday.

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Which science fiction writer are you? (http://paulkienitz.net/skiffy.html)

hal clements wrote an awesome book called MISSION OF GRAVITY abt the encounter between humans and little centipede-like creatures on a v.high-gravity planet -- it is very subtle and sensitive abt cultural difference and how both sides are quietly exploiting the other

ha ha i got the same and the same reaction.

i think i've heard of mission of gravity (reading his wikipedia entry) and that's about all

i totally recommend MoG! but i don't know anything else about him

I read one or two others, but they were dull. MoG is great, yes.

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NB no idea who this is.

JP = very gung-ho pro-military ultra-libertarian -- runs some foundation linked to the star wars project i think

in the early 70s he was co-author with larry niven of a sequence of space-navy novels which were kind of HORNBLOWER IN SPACE (with futurist america = 1800s britain)

(i am fond of niven for his depiction of a multi-alien galactic fed in NEUTRON STAR and also for RINGWORLD, which is grebt fun)

According to the site, realactual JP took the test and was told he was Heinlein.

Ringworld was ace but it's one of those books that's been frequently let down by REALLY BAD COVER ART which put me off reading it for ages.

i was disappointed by ringworld cos the story wasn't about the world as such! there was some sort of "right stuff" main sotry that was distracting little me from thinking about the possibilities of the ringworld. ISTR reading the sequel Ringworld Engineers and liking that more. DOUBLE ALSO BONUS: wasn't there a RPG based on ringworld =:-O

"Orbitsville" (author forgotten - blish?) about a Dyson Sphere was way more my thing.

it's true the main RW story is ringworld-unrelated, viz abt tina, who has been darwinianly selected for being PERFECTLY LUCKY -- i think LN actually handles this idea nicely (in that it gradually punctures the smugness of the guy who is a. narrator and b. her boyf from the bulk of the picture)

but yes, the ringworld is just there to BE on: ie as backstory, w.some implicatons only explored -- viz the consequences of its SIZE as a world

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RingworldRPG

Which science fiction writer are you? (http://paulkienitz.net/skiffy.html)

WHO?? i wanna be LEM! whaaaa!

I'm Arthur C. Clarke, apparently (there aren't many to choose from, it seems). I don't mind, as The City And The Stars is one of my favourite SF novels ever.

whoops, that was me - don't know why I wasn't logged in automatically, as usually happens.

I am Frank Herbert.

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