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Writers Who Will Stand the Test of Time?

Posted by Cliff on from the for-the-well-read-among-us dept.

Embedded Geek asks: "Every year, the online version of Locus (a trade magazine of Science Fiction & Fantasy) asks the question: "Name the 5 deceased 20th century SF & fantasy writers you think will still be read 50 years from now." The results favored some of the bigger names (Heinlein, Asimov, Tolkein) as well as a few lesser known figures (Simak, Bester). I would like to ask a broader question: What authors (in any genre, fiction or nonfiction) alive today will still be read (hard copy or online) in 2051?" If I had to answer off of the top of my head, I know William Gibson, Charles Sheffield, and Orson Scott Card would be in my list, but that's not all of them. A few authors who I thought would be classics have since vanished (whatever did happen to Daniel Keys Moran, anyways?) aand of course there are a few iffy ones which I could be convinced on (C.J. Cherryh, anyone). What authors do you feel will stand the test of time? Yeah, these are sci-fi authors, but that's about what I read these days.

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  1. CmdrTaco by sulli · · Score: 1, Funny

    his wrtigns will stnad the tset of tmei! No doubt about it.

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  2. Re:Robert Jordan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah. I especially like his complex characterization and terse writing style.

  3. Re:Robert Jordan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Robert Jordan will be read 50 years from now because he still won't have finished the WoT series by then!

  4. oh, oh, i know, i know! by msouth · · Score: 2, Funny

    jon katz

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  5. haha by delmoi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeh, If by 'writing' you mean 'copy and pasting other people's work to kuro5hin'

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