Creating a Permanent Science Fiction Library -- Ad-Ah
Zeki Huysman
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1) Douglas Adams
2) Richard Adams
3) Robert Adams
4) Jerry Ahern
AUTHORS I MISSED ON PREVIOUS ROUNDS (Ac)
5) Forrest Ackerman
Which of these would make your cut?
Thanks for playing,
Zeki
David DeLaney
>1) Douglas Adams
(Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dirk Gently)
>2) Richard Adams
(Watership Down)
>3) Robert Adams
(Horseclans)
>4) Jerry Ahern
>
>AUTHORS I MISSED ON PREVIOUS ROUNDS (Ac)
>5) Forrest Ackerman
>
>Which of these would make your cut?
All five, though all I have by Ahern are two by Jerry _and_ Sharon.
Hmmm. Nothing in between comes to mind, though we're about to get to Joan
Aiken.
Dave
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Brian M. Scott
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[...]
> 1) Douglas Adams
> 2) Richard Adams
> 3) Robert Adams
> 4) Jerry Ahern
> AUTHORS I MISSED ON PREVIOUS ROUNDS (Ac)
> 5) Forrest Ackerman
> Which of these would make your cut?
Ackerman's important from a historical point of view, but
I'd certainly not include him as a writer. Douglas Adams
wouldn't go in *my* library, but _The Hitchhiker's Guide to
the Galaxy_ is undeniably a classic. Robert Adams'
Horseclans series is fun and workmanlike. I don't think
that I've read anything by Ahern, with or without his wife
Sharon, and I'm not likely to do so.
Brian
Butch Malahide
> On Wed, 4 May 2011 15:53:47 -0700 (PDT), Zeki Huysman
> <news:be1547b9-2c2b-4d0b...@f15g2000pro.googlegroups.com>
> in rec.arts.sf.written:
>
> [...]
>
> > 1) Douglas Adams
> > 2) Richard Adams
> > 3) Robert Adams
> > 4) Jerry Ahern
> > AUTHORS I MISSED ON PREVIOUS ROUNDS (Ac)
> > 5) Forrest Ackerman
> > Which of these would make your cut?
>
> Ackerman's important from a historical point of view, but
> I'd certainly not include him as a writer.
Doesn't editing count? What would sci-fi be without _Famous Monsters
of Filmland_?
Butch Malahide
> Zeki Huysman <zhuys...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >1) Douglas Adams
>
> (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dirk Gently)
>
> >2) Richard Adams
> (Watership Down)
> >3) Robert Adams
> (Horseclans)
> >4) Jerry Ahern
>
> >AUTHORS I MISSED ON PREVIOUS ROUNDS (Ac)
> >5) Forrest Ackerman
>
> >Which of these would make your cut?
>
> All five, though all I have by Ahern are two by Jerry _and_ Sharon.
>
> Hmmm. Nothing in between comes to mind, though we're about to get to Joan
> Aiken.
Bob Agberg?
David Johnston
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>
> 1) Douglas Adams
> 2) Richard Adams
> 3) Robert Adams
> 4) Jerry Ahern
>
> AUTHORS I MISSED ON PREVIOUS ROUNDS (Ac)
> 5) Forrest Ackerman
>
> Which of these would make your cut?
>
> Thanks for playing,
> Zeki
Douglas and Richard Adams. Ackerman's a notable guy as a fan, but I
don't remember anything about his fiction.
Brian M. Scott
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>> [...]
> Doesn't editing count?
Not as writing.
> What would sci-fi be without _Famous Monsters of
> Filmland_?
*Mine* would be exactly what it is now!
Brian
Zeki Huysman
> All five, though all I have by Ahern are two by Jerry _and_ Sharon.
I had never heard of Ahern before making this list. Looking into him,
it's easy to see how he might be a polarizing figure--for many
reasons. Worth reading, David?
Thanks,
Zeki
Zeki Huysman
> Doesn't editing count? What would sci-fi be without _Famous Monsters
> of Filmland_?
This (the former) is an important question. For me, in making this
list, I'm thinking of authors of primary texts, because I'm thinking
of this library as a gigantic set of shelves where stories and novels
wait for me till I want to read them. It would be just as valid to
think of it as a museum or research library where we'd want to see
these works in their historical context--stories in the magazines that
first published them, with the correct cover art, &c.
Just my opinions,
Zeki
Zeki Huysman
> Bob Agberg?
Took me a moment to figure out that's Robert Silverberg.
Thanks,
Zeki
David Johnston
Actually, I could probably add Robert Adams. Not Ahern though.
David DeLaney
One was, though it wasn't great or classic. The other is sitting on the bottom
of the second-from-left to-read pile in front of my screen, so I don't know.
Evelyn Leeper
George Adamski
Chas Addams (more an artist, true, but what I think of as a narrative
artist)
--
Evelyn C. Leeper
I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than
about doing the thing they want to be successful at. -xkcd
Stewart Robert Hinsley
<be1547b9-2c2b-4d0b...@f15g2000pro.googlegroups.com>,
Zeki Huysman <zhuy...@gmail.com> writes
>Original Post:
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>Previous Post:
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>2b11769abe9e00aa?hl=en#
>
>1) Douglas Adams
>2) Richard Adams
>3) Robert Adams
>4) Jerry Ahern
There's also a Pete Adams. (He had one story reprinted in Aldiss's
Galactic Empires anthology.)
>
>AUTHORS I MISSED ON PREVIOUS ROUNDS (Ac)
>5) Forrest Ackerman
>
>Which of these would make your cut?
>
>Thanks for playing,
>Zeki
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley
Evelyn Leeper
George Adamski
Zeki Huysman
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/browse_thread/thread/52baaafa0e04a4f1?hl=en#
(By the way, these "Next Post" links I'm adding aren't meant to
declare an end to discussion. Obviously, I don't have the right to do
that and wouldn't want to if I did. Just trying to be helpful.)
Thanks,
Zeki
Butch Malahide
>
> George Adamski
You're joking, right?
Ahasuerus
> Zeki Huysman <zhuys...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >On May 4, 4:59 pm, d...@gatekeeper.vic.com (David DeLaney) wrote:
> >> All five, though all I have by Ahern are two by Jerry _and_ Sharon.
>
> >I had never heard of Ahern before making this list. Looking into him,
> >it's easy to see how he might be a polarizing figure--for many
> >reasons. Worth reading, David?
>
> One was, though it wasn't great or classic. The other is sitting on the
> bottom of the second-from-left to-read pile in front of my screen, so I don't
> know.
I found _The Golden Shield of the IBF_ more readable than I had
expected based on sporadic exposure to Ahern's action/adventure
series, but I wouldn't add it to a "permanent SF library".