Creating a Permanent Science Fiction Library -- Ab
Zeki Huysman
1) Kobo Abe
2) Joe Abercrombie
3) Robert Abernathy
4) Edwin Abbott
5) Daniel Abraham
Would any of these authors make your cut?
Ahasuerus
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> 1) Kobo Abe
> 2) Joe Abercrombie
> 3) Robert Abernathy
> 4) Edwin Abbott
> 5) Daniel Abraham
>
> Would any of these authors make your cut?
Raymond Abrashkin! :-)
David DeLaney
>1) Kobo Abe
>2) Joe Abercrombie
>3) Robert Abernathy
>4) Edwin Abbott
>5) Daniel Abraham
>
>Would any of these authors make your cut?
4 and 5, definitely. You're missing Lynn Abbey, and also Rachel Aaron and
Ben Aaronovitch (both of whom are fairly recent, granted). I have nothing
by 1-3, myself.
Dave
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David Dyer-Bennet
Don't remember ever hearing four of the names. So I'm not arguing for their
inclusion.
You do need to include Flatland (Abbott).
I'd rate Lynn Abbey as more important than the non-Abbotts on your list there.
David Johnston
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> 2) Joe Abercrombie
> 3) Robert Abernathy
> 4) Edwin Abbott
> 5) Daniel Abraham
>
> Would any of these authors make your cut?
Abbott's Flatland is obviously notable, but I don't know anything else
he's written. I am not familiar with the other authors.
Brian M. Scott
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Don't know Abe or Abernathy. Abercrombie isn't really to my
taste. _Flatland_ is a classic, but it's a one-off; Abbott
himself doesn't really belong. Abraham is the one on this
list who might get a place in mine; the jury's still out.
Some missing possibilities: Lynn Abbey, Ben Aaronovitch, Dan
Abnett, and Rachel Aaron. Abbey wouldn't get a place in
mine; the other three are too new for me to say, though I've
enjoyed their work.
Brian
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Ahasuerus
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> Don't know Abe or Abernathy.
Abe wrote SF, but it wasn't exactly genre SF, although _Inter Ice Age
4_ came close. There were some memorable images in his books, but I
wouldn't call make them a part of a "core science fiction library".
Abernathy was a second tier Golden/Silver Age writer with a number of
well received stories. <pause> Hm, I wonder if it would be useful to
create an ISFDB script to calculate how many stories associated with a
given author/magazine/etc have been reprinted...
Stewart Robert Hinsley
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Zeki Huysman <zhuy...@gmail.com> writes
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>1) Kobo Abe
>2) Joe Abercrombie
>3) Robert Abernathy
>4) Edwin Abbott
>5) Daniel Abraham
>
>Would any of these authors make your cut?
I don't think anyone has mentioned Paul Ableman or Greg Abraham yet.
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Stewart Robert Hinsley
Butch Malahide
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> 2) Joe Abercrombie
> 3) Robert Abernathy
> 4) Edwin Abbott
> 5) Daniel Abraham
>
> Would any of these authors make your cut?
Abernathy because he was good, Abbott because _Flatland_ is so famous.
Never heard of the others. Nobody has mentioned Vance Aandahl.
Ahasuerus
> Abernathy was a second tier Golden/Silver Age writer with a number of
> well received stories. <pause> Hm, I wonder if it would be useful to
> create an ISFDB script to calculate how many stories associated with a
> given author/magazine/etc have been reprinted...
And here are the results for Abernathy with the first column
indicating the number of reprints:
1 Heritage (1942)
2 Peril of the Blue World (1942)
0 Mission from Arcturus (1943)
1 Saboteur of Space (1944)
1 The Canal Builders (1945)
0 When the Rockets Come (1945)
1 Failure on Titan (1947)
0 Hostage of Tomorrow (1949)
0 The Giants Return (1949)
1 The Dead-Star Rover (1949)
1 The Ultimate Peril (1950)
0 The Tower of Babble (1950)
1 Strange Exodus (1950)
0 Righteous Plague (1951)
0 The Four Commandments (1953)
3 The Rotifers (1953)
0 Lifework (1953)
0 The Captain's Getaway (1953)
0 Professor Schlucker's Fallacy (1953)
2 Axolotl (aka Deep Space, 1954)
0 Tag (1954)
0 Deep Space (1954)
0 The Record of Currupira (1954)
0 The Firefighter (1954)
0 When the Mountain Shook (1954)
0 The Thousandth Year (1954)
4 Heirs Apparent (1954)
5 Pyramid (1954)
0 The Marvelous Movie (1954)
0 The Fishers (1954)
2 Single Combat (1955)
0 World of the Drone (1955)
0 The Guzzler (1955)
4 Junior (1956)
0 The Year 2000 (1956)
1 Grandma's Lie Soap (1956)
0 One of Them? (1956)
0 The Laugh (1956)
0 Hour Without Glory (1956)
Disclaimers: Project Gutenberg appearances are not counted as
reprints. An anthology appearance is counted once even if the
anthology went through 10 printings. Facsimile reprints of pulp
magazines are counted as reprints.
Zeki Huysman
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