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#3475437 - 12/16/11 11:53 AM
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When talking about the "golden age" of sci-fi literature from the 20th century, is there anyone you would include besides Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, Robert Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke? I'm just wondering if I'm missing anyone else who was huge during that era.
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#3475481 - 12/16/11 01:04 PM
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Poul Anderson, Hal Clement, Eric Frank Russell, CM Kornbluth, Frederic Pohl, William Tenn.....many many more.
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#3475486 - 12/16/11 01:13 PM
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Poul Anderson, Hal Clement, Eric Frank Russell, CM Kornbluth, Frederic Pohl, William Tenn.....many many more. I see I need to broaden my horizons since I've not heard of any of those authors. Thanks for the list!
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#3475492 - 12/16/11 01:24 PM
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How about Phillip Dick? I bet most people would say they've seen or heard of "Blade Runner", "Minority Report", "Total Recall" or "The Adjustment Bureau" but very few would know they were all based on stories by Phillip Dick.
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#3475503 - 12/16/11 01:47 PM
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Don't forget William Gibson the father of cyberpunk.
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#3475523 - 12/16/11 02:31 PM
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Aww you left out E.E. Doc Smith and his Lensman series, The Family D'Alembert series, Skylark series, Lord Tedric series, and his other stories were classics and influenced many writers.
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#3475590 - 12/16/11 04:28 PM
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#3475651 - 12/16/11 07:05 PM
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My dad gave me all of his old sci-fi that he read growing up. I have a picture here of some of the books in one of the boxes... books pic
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#3475719 - 12/16/11 10:58 PM
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Stanislaw Lem. He was Douglas Adams before Douglas Adams was funny OR cool.
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#3475784 - 12/17/11 04:59 AM
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Don't forget William Gibson the father of cyberpunk. Gibson is long after what is generally defined as the "golden age" (1930-50s).
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#3475844 - 12/17/11 07:44 AM
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Panzer, Mad Dog brings up an interesting point. Is that era (30s-50s) what you were talking about? Usually these kinds of threads tend to eventually swing well beyond any limits set by the first post, but I'd like to know anyway.
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#3475846 - 12/17/11 07:49 AM
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Wikipedia is always an interesting read (with a grain of salt): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Science_FictionHeh heh, their handy list of prominent and influential authors includes L. Ron Hubbard. I forgot that he wrote science fiction as well as books like Battlefield Earth.
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#3475946 - 12/17/11 10:36 AM
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James Blish's Cities in flight series was very good, I had forgeten about them, I wonder how Mayor Amalfi is doing  A life for the Stars Does Perry Rhodan count? it came in 1961
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#3476075 - 12/17/11 03:21 PM
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I classify "golden age" by what I've read and when it was written. Nothing golden to me about a book I've never read or heard of from 1930-50. 
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#3476168 - 12/17/11 06:38 PM
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Panzer, Mad Dog brings up an interesting point. Is that era (30s-50s) what you were talking about? Usually these kinds of threads tend to eventually swing well beyond any limits set by the first post, but I'd like to know anyway. I was thinking of a much broader definition of "golden era". Basically the entire 20th century.
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#3476248 - 12/17/11 11:25 PM
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Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Greg Bear, David Brin, and Gregory Benford.
ETA Forgot Alan Dean Foster.
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#3476939 - 12/19/11 04:50 AM
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So, if BE isn't SF, what is it? Future history??  The Jedi Master
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#3476966 - 12/19/11 05:36 AM
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With this broader timeframe, I would like to add Iain Banks.
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#3476979 - 12/19/11 05:47 AM
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So, if BE isn't SF, what is it? Future history?? The Jedi Master I'm not sure but I do know that "Dianetics" is purely science fiction.
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#3477220 - 12/19/11 12:46 PM
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Is this book SF?
Page 43.
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#3477277 - 12/19/11 01:56 PM
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So, if BE isn't SF, what is it? Future history?? The revered bible of a sect, of course.
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#3477300 - 12/19/11 02:30 PM
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That's not Battlefield Earth, that's the previously mentioned Dianetics.
BE was SF and was (poorly) turned into an SF film.
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#3477398 - 12/19/11 05:26 PM
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I can't believe anyone didn't mention Harlan Ellison........JEEZ!!
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He was the Edgar Allen Poe of science fiction back then. Dark with a sick sense of humor.
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#3477468 - 12/19/11 08:54 PM
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Harlan Ellison provided a lot of creative input to Babylon 5 and he even played a Psy Cop in one episode.
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#3477559 - 12/20/11 04:55 AM
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He also wrote a Star Trek episode and then later spent an awful lot of time complaining about it.
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And a masterpiece of a screenplay for "I Robot". Say what you will about Ellison the man (cantankerous codgy old coot), he know's how to write good Sci-Fi.
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#3477915 - 12/20/11 01:24 PM
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And a masterpiece of a screenplay for "I Robot". His was obviously rejected since it was the screenplay by Akiva Goldsman that got turned into the film with Will Smith. I would have liked to have seen how the movie would have turned out differently though had his screenplay been adapted.
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#3478346 - 12/21/11 05:12 AM
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Will Smith would've been a bitter old man that complained about everything, mostly about how little talent there was out there.
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Alfred Bester. One of the most under-appreciated SF greats of the 20th century. Read The Stars My Destination and tell me this guy wasn't a master. He has more happen in 300 pages than most writers can get into 1500. He won the first Hugo given out, in 1953.
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#3480843 - 12/24/11 05:20 PM
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Alfred Bester. One of the most under-appreciated SF greats of the 20th century. Read The Stars My Destination and tell me this guy wasn't a master. He has more happen in 300 pages than most writers can get into 1500. He won the first Hugo given out, in 1953. More recent generations may know the name from Babylon 5, as Walter Koenigs character was named after him.
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#3480908 - 12/24/11 09:09 PM
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Babylon 5 is the show that finally gave Walter Koenig the opportunity to demonstrate his full range of acting skills.
I love Star Trek but Chekov didn't have much depth.
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Babylon 5 is the show that finally gave Walter Koenig the opportunity to demonstrate his full range of acting skills.
I love Star Trek but Chekov didn't have much depth. I had no clue he was part of that cast. Now I will have to find a way to watch that series. Wheels
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Timothy Zahn did some Star Wars books and they are good. It had more depth then Lucas can put in his morning cereal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Zahn
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Babylon 5 is the show that finally gave Walter Koenig the opportunity to demonstrate his full range of acting skills.
I love Star Trek but Chekov didn't have much depth. I had no clue he was part of that cast. Now I will have to find a way to watch that series. Wheels He was only a recurring guest star so he shows up on about 10 episodes.
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#3481965 - 12/27/11 06:10 AM
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Yet every appearance was worthy. He even raised the level of eps with Byron. The Jedi Master
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#3481974 - 12/27/11 06:26 AM
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He even raised the level of eps with Byron. The Jedi Master And THAT was no small feat.
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Possibly the worst character in SF television I can recall...or rather fail to purge from my memory.
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#3482045 - 12/27/11 08:07 AM
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Possibly the worst character in SF television I can recall...or rather fail to purge from my memory.
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#3482229 - 12/27/11 12:40 PM
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There are characters that bore you and instill apathy, then are those you loathe that stir antipathy.
The Crushers and Reyes are the former, Byron is the latter.
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