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PostTop Ten Speculative Fiction Authors of All Time

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:09 pm
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The membership of ARWZ voted on this one back in August 2001, so it is admittedly dated and weighted toward the interests of our visitors at the time. What are your thoughts? What did we get right? What did we get wrong?



1. J R R Tolkien

2. Isaac Asimov

3. J K Rowling

4. Robert A Heinlein

4. George R R Martin

4. Terry Goodkind

7. Robert Jordan

8. C S Lewis

9. Arthur C Clarke

9. Terry Pratchett



And just in case you're curious:

11. Ray Bradbury

12. Roger Zelazny

13. Stephen King

13. Frank Herbert

15. Douglas Adams

16. David Eddings

16. Brian Jacques

18. Ursula K Le Guin

18. C S Freidman

20. Piers Anthony
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Golophin
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:52 pm
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Well my personal top ten would probably include Jack Vance and Gene Wolfe.
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:35 pm
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Looking back I'm surprised that Gene Wolf didn't make the list.
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Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 9:23 pm
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Wolfe definitely makes my list, and the others in my Top 10 would include (purely alphabetical):

Brian W. Aldiss
Alfred Bester
Ray Bradbury
Arthur C. Clarke
Philip K. Dick
Harlan Ellison
Robert A. Heinlein
Theodore Sturgeon
J. R. R. Tolkien

And here's another ten honorable mentions:

Philip Jos� Farmer
David Gerrold
Ursula K. LeGuin
Stanislaw Lem
Frederik Pohl
Robert Silverberg
Cordwainer Smith
Olaf Stapledon
James Tiptree Jr.
John Varley
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 6:28 pm
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I hope we can do another author list soon. Maybe someday when I have more time to devote to the magazine, and the number of voters increase, we can do the lists more often.
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