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Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer?

Posted by Soulskill on from the nice-try-zombie-brunner dept.

mvdwege writes "In the thread on the most depressing sci-fi, there were hundreds of posts but merely four mentions of John Brunner, dystopian writer par excellence. Now, given the normally U.S. libertarian bent of the Slashdot audience, it is understandable that an outright British Socialist writer like Brunner would get short shrift, but it got me thinking: what Sci-fi writers do you know that are, in your opinion, vastly underappreciated?"

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  1. J. K. Rowling by HaeMaker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Going for a downvote record!

    1. Re:J. K. Rowling by drobety · · Score: 4, Funny

      L. Ron Hubbard!

    2. Re:J. K. Rowling by sjames · · Score: 5, Funny

      You gotta admire the innovation though. I mean, many sci-fi stories have been turned into movies or video games, a few into plays and some have even inspired albums. But to my knowledge, Hubbard is the first to turn a sci-fi series into a decades long piece of performance art so encompassing that most of the players don't realize it isn't real life. He even called his shot!

    3. Re:J. K. Rowling by Eponymous+Hero · · Score: 4, Funny

      What other sci-fi writer jumped the shark with such intense audacity as to proclaim a series of lackluster works of science fiction space opera cliches as a genuine religious faith?

      joseph smith. have you had a peek at the pearl of great price? oh, and the person/people who wrote the urantia book. dianetics is a urantia rip-off.

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  2. Kilgore Trout. by some+old+guy · · Score: 5, Funny

    And so it goes.

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  3. L. Ron Hubbard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Duh!

  4. Me by multiben · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wrote a short story in 3rd grade about being transformed into a sultana. My teacher said my handwriting was too messy. I never wrote again.

    1. Re:Me by multiben · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ms Macklin? Is that you?

    2. Re:Me by RandomFactor · · Score: 5, Funny

      Should have put in a star crossed romance interest between a stalactite and stalagmite from two warring houses, the Calzites and Bicarbonets.

      Could end it tragically with some lime-a-way...

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  5. 9/11 truthers and moon landing deniers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Their "explanations" truly push the limits of the laws of physics.

  6. Moses! by citylivin · · Score: 1, Funny

    Number 1 in print, but he's not the first person you think of!

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  7. Re:Stanislaw Lem by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 5, Funny

    The originals are of course better

    You mean that they are more polished? *ducks*

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