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Re: Really, I write like...What?
« Reply #30 on: July 23, 2010, 05:18:04 am »
Someone around here once suggested that if I ever have a reason to write an autobiography, I should entitle it "Some Bullshit Exegesis".

I've always loved that.

I would title my online journal that but that website don't dig swears.
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Re: Really, I write like...What?
« Reply #31 on: July 23, 2010, 02:19:02 pm »
I had some Dick time back in my day, it was a rough ride, and he's not my usual type.  It was a singular affair and I never looked back.

Also, I just pasted some Doctorow from Ash's link into the "I write like" and it came back Stephen King.
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Re: Really, I write like...What?
« Reply #32 on: July 23, 2010, 03:01:47 pm »
Quote from: AugustWest on July 23, 2010, 03:53:41 am
I think Dick is overrated.  He's kind of a lousy writer and I give his ideas a B+ at best.  I can think of several SF writers of his generation that I respect more.

Heinlein
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Re: Really, I write like...What?
« Reply #33 on: July 23, 2010, 05:46:18 pm »
Hell, I like Niven better than Dick.
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Re: Really, I write like...What?
« Reply #34 on: May 31, 2011, 06:18:37 am »
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Fuck you, I've been here since the start and I don't have to follow your stupid rules. Plus it's slow around here.

Dick has some interesting ideas, but he was a serious dick. Heinlein is fun to read and also has some interesting ideas, but he also has some pretty stupid ideas - which is not to say I haven't read all his stuff (random fact I just learned - the various branches of the military have official reading lists, and Starship Troopers is in there).

When I want sci-fi I want Varley, Niven/Pournelle, Harrison (fun and often silly), Verne, Wells, Douglas Adams, Bradbury (but jesus is he uneven) and Fred Brown. William Gibson is good . . . but I think a little goes a long way. Everybody probably ought to read Vonnegut, but I wonder about folks who always put him in the top five. He's one of those guys that I feel like you read him and then you move on after a bit. Huxley's in the top 20 or something as is Burgess and Ballard. I liked reading Orson Scott Card's books, and along the same lines Nancy Kress. I haven't really dialled into Bester and Van Vogt and Doc Smith and those guys like I should - I've read some of that stuff but not enough. Harlan Ellison . . . . some stuff is good and some is pretty annoying. Neil Gaiman is obviously awesome.

Also, I wrote this post in the style of Cory Doctorow.
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Re: Really, I write like...What?
« Reply #35 on: May 31, 2011, 07:16:11 am »
No love for Asimov?
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Re: Really, I write like...What?
« Reply #36 on: May 31, 2011, 07:39:27 am »
Quote from: pmcd9 on May 31, 2011, 07:16:11 am
No love for Asimov?

This probably ought to go in the other thread, but I've never read an Asimov work, other than some weird trivia book he put out.
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