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The top science fiction writers get ranked
READING SCIENCE FICTION is a common pastime for many IT workers, from computer operators and admins all the way to data centre directors and CIOs. So we here at The INQUIRER believe that our readers might be interested to take a look at who some of our colleagues think are perhaps the best science fiction writers ever to have set pen to paper or hands to typewriters or keyboards.
After all, many good ideas first explored in scifi short stories, novels, television and film presentations over the last half-century and more have since been realised in our daily lives. The Communicators of Star Trek over 40 years ago are largely reflected in our smartphones of today, and it is likely that actual devices very like its Tri-D recorders will soon appear to create lifelike 3D video recordings. The list of technologies first imagined in science fiction that have later been built by our society's science and engineering professions is long, much to the credit of science fiction writers who dared to dream, and whose visions are now real.
Follow the link to review a ranking of what a couple of our colleagues regard as the Top 10 science fiction writers. µ
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If you read Clarke, you want to build your own rocket. If you read Asimov, a robot. Heinlein, a ray gun. Verne, airship. Or submarine. If you read Dick, you want to pop a pill... that ain't what it's about.
Lots of people like different kind of writing. it might be a starting point for someone just getting in to SF but lists like that are kind of worthless. its just someones opinion.
They aren't even aware of Michael Crichton.
nope. They fooled me twice. Not clicking on these asinine links anymore. Do NOT care what ignorant blogger at v3 thinks.
I bet deep down "inquirer staff" (nobody wants to take credit for this) feels the same way
I see you've stopped telling us you're trying to get us to read an article on V3. It won't work - we can still see where the link points to by hovering over it. Perhaps you could try using a tinyurl which would disguise it better.
Kings Of Orient Are.
P2 of the review:
"It is also refreshing to see a writer that enjoys a drink or three..."
I gave up there.
Another V3 referral to a lame top-10 list? I guess I should be thankful that you used more than one paragraph to introduce it.
I think an honourable mention has to go to Peter F Hamilton from the UK, writer of the Greg Mandel trilogy, as well as Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained (IMO his best work).
His style is one of the best i have ever read.
The list should be corrected to read The Top Ten MALE SF Writers.
The Inquirer is getting more boring, and that V3 site is so dull.
WTF has happened to The Inq? Who are the twats in charge that bought The Inq and why are they killing it with dull mundane drivvel?
OMG Mike Magee, where are you when we need you?
Mr Magee, please can you sort out this once great webazine? It's turning into a blog, and blogs are usually dull and poorly edited.
Today's "smartphones" aren't much more than full duplex walkie-talkies. I never watched the show closely, but don't recall even a button being pushed, nor cell towers every five miles, nor obnoxious ring tones, nor Kirk wandering around a supermarket asking his current alien love interest whether she wants Brie or Camembert.
Conversely, don't recall Kirk ever getting visual info on his Communicator, so as prediction, it fails.
This only points up how The Future has devolved into a cartoonish dystopia, full of chatty kids unable to reach a decision on groceries without consulting someone else, driving ridiculously gaudy cars, listening to ear-damaging booms, and mistaking annoying graphical shells for advances in computing. I could go on, but most have no basis for comparison and don't grasp that true progress is actually grinding to a halt.
...for posting this. Geeks rejoice!