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06 Oct 2011, 1:53 pm

Olaf Stapledon
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Standing outside the science fiction "field", he wrote fictional explorations of the futures of whole species and galaxies.



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06 Oct 2011, 2:34 pm

My RL name is not on the list.



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06 Oct 2011, 7:10 pm

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Hal Clement (Harry C. Stubbs)

A quiet and underrated master of "hard science" fiction who, among other things, foresaw integrated circuits back in the 1940s.

I can think of far worse people to be compared to than the author of such classics as Mission of Gravity. OTOH, when I go back and choose some slightly different answers, I get Olaf Stapledon (Last and First Men). I was kind of hoping for Spider Robinson, but there was nothing in that list of questions about puns...


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31 Oct 2011, 11:58 am

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Cordwainer Smith (Paul M.A. Linebarger)
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This inimitably unique storyteller created a future with so many deep layers of history that all the world we know is practically lost in it.


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