I don't know if there are any authors that quite rank that high but there is plenty of good thought provoking sf still being written.
A few hard sf authors I have read enjoyed in the last few years: Peter Watts Richard Paul Russo Charles Pellegrino and George Zebrowski Richard Morgan Of course William Gibson, Stephen Baxter, Neal Stephenson and others are still around and putting out great work. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > well said. Clarke was one of my early introducers to scifi as well, though in my case, I think Andre Norton was the first one to really captivate me, followed by Heinlein. He will be missed. > I don't read as much as scifi nowadays, usually reading more fantasy. The last hard scifi I read was the "1632" books. Do you think there are scifi writers working today who are as visionary, intelligent ,and prescient as Clarke and some others of his day, like Asimov? > > -------------- Original message -------------- > From: "James Landrith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Clarke's "A Fall of Moondust" was the first real science fiction novel I > read, which turned me toward my personal favorite of his "Against the Fall > of Night." After that, I was hopelessly addicted and consumed everything > SF that I could find, eventually purchasing piles and piles of SF&F, Analog, > Galaxy, etc. at garage sales and wearing out my library card twice. > > I didn't think this would bother me as much as it did. > > From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of brent wodehouse > Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4:03 PM > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Arthur C. Clarke, Author of `2001: A Space > Odyssey,' Dies at 90 > > :-( > > "ravenadal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:ravenadal%40yahoo.com> > writes: > > >[ > >http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088 > <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=asf8WIi3POP8&refer=h=om > e> &sid=asf8WIi3POP8&refer=h=ome# > >]http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088 > <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=asf8WIi3POP8&refer=home > > &sid=asf8WIi3POP8&refer=home# > > > >Arthur C. Clarke, Author of `2001: A Space Odyssey,' Dies at 90 > > > >By Robin Stringer > > > >March 19 (Bloomberg) -- Arthur C. Clarke, the U.K. science- fiction > >writer and futurist visionary best known for the novel adapted for the > >film ``2001: A Space Odyssey,'' has died. He was 90. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
