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Who are your favorite Sci-fi writers? Here are mine:

• Arthur C. Clarke
• C.S. Lewis
• Isaac Asimov
• Ray Bradbury
• Piers Anthony
• Robert A. Heinlein

C. J. Cherryh!!!

Isaac Asimov
Arthur C. Clarke
Robert A. Heinlein

Those are the only Sci-fi authors I can remember that I have read multiple works of. All the others that I remember were just single books.

Lester del Rey.
Heinlein (only for children's books)
Bradbury

Can't think of others at the moment.

*Piers Anthony
*Robert A.Heinlein
*H.G.Wells
*C.S.Lewis
*J.R.R.Tolkien(I know LOTR is fantasy but since they're related..)
*Diane Duane
*Ann McCafferty
*Isaac Asimov
*George Alec Effinger(for his Maureen Birnbaum,Barbarian Swordsperson stories
plus the short story:The Aliens Who Knew Like Totally Everything)
*Margaret Ball

Gene Wolfe
R.A. Lafferty
Philip K. Dick
William Tenn
John Sladek
Joanna Russ
Ursula K. LeGuin
... and others I'll think of later.

Timothy Zahn
Kathy Tyers
C. S. Lewis

And one other whose name escapes me at the moment.

H.G. Wells
Jules Verne
Timothy Zahn
Kevin J Anderson
C. S. Lewis
Sean Williams
Garth Nix
Philip K Dick

I know it's not Sci Fi but Morgan Llweyen has done a series of novels based on
Celtic mythology including Red Branch and Finn McCool.

Timothy Zahn

Kevin J. Anderson

H.G. Wells

I admire the intelligence and creativity of Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asmiov, but I found their stories so boring and empty (emotionally). I guess for me to enjoy a book I have to have some emotional tie with it and they just don't have any.
Philip K Dick is borderline. He has great ideas and some good emotion in there.

Not to mention, his stories make great movies. Blade Runner, anyone?

I know! I also enjoyed Minority Report a lot.

The actual title of the book that inspired Blade Runner was:Do Androids Dream Of
Electronic Sheep?
It should be noted that Blade Runner was also supposed to be part of the inspiration for Bubblegum Crisis.

Would Douglas Adams count? *you probably all saw this mention coming from a mile away-*

Douglas Adams and Ray Bradbury are all who come to mind. I don't read much science-fiction.

Dang! I forgot Douglas Adams! *punches self*

I actually don't think I've ever read Douglas Adams.

When I was younger, I was pretty sure he wrote blasphemous stuff, so I never read it. And I've never read any since I got older, although I've thought about it. There's inertia involved, and the fact that I can't just pick up his first book at the library, plus I suppose I'm still a bit uncertain about his sarcasms about God.

Well, he's heavily humanistic but most of what he says about God isn't meant to be taken seriously I think. It's humour for a reason.

I salute the man's works, but not that man himself. He described himself as a "Radical Atheist" so people would quit asking if he meant Agnostic.

I'm not heavily into science fiction, but I have a few authors.

• Douglas Adams (should read more)
• CS Lewis (I wish he wrote more science fiction)
• Gene Wolfe (an excellent writer, but at times maybe too self-consiously difficult for his own good)
• Philip K Dick (what little I've read of him)

In order of preference:

Kevin J. Anderson
Timothy Zahn
Isaac Asimov
Robert Silverberg
Arthur C. Clarke

C.S. Lewis (Cosmic Trilogy and Narnia)

Narnia's not Sci-Fi!

Richard Paul Russo--author of the Carlucci trilogy. Cyberpunk mysteries that I actually like.

H.G. Wells--The Time Machine? Good. The Invisible Man? Even better. War of the Worlds? Awesome!

Alan Dean Foster--some of his stuff is cute. Jed the Dead lol.

Frank Herbert--DUNE!! I did like his son's Legends of Dune series, too.