Battle of the Gregs

[Ari Rahikkala]

Which one is the greatest science fiction author?Me, I recently read Darwin's Radio by Bear and found it lacking. It seemed like a bit of a tragic case - the main idea (spoiler in rot13: Angher nf na vagryyvtrag pbzchgre, cbffvoyl rira bar jvgu npghny qrfverf naq tbnyf, gung qrfvtaf arj fcrpvrf. Gur pbzchgre hfrf whax QAN sbe vgf zrzbel) is too preposterous to be presented in a short story, but it seemed to me that everything in the book aside said idea was just clunky narrative, strange side stories about mass murders in Eastern Bloc countries that I didn't understand at all, lectures on biology, and the obligatory love story.My favourite of these is... Egan, I think. The scientific premise in Permutation City, the last novel I read by him, is even less plausible than that in Darwin's Radio, and I'm not surprised why so many people say they didn't understand at all... but it's full of other good ideas like the Autoverse. The first chapter with its depiction of life in a small simulated world that's designed to run with only the most necessary computations is already a pleasure to read, and the rest of the novel is... pretty good, too.Cox and Keyes here are "filler" competitors, picked from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci...on_authors and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat...on_writers since they seem like they might actually be popular in the US. I've never heard of either guy. BearBenfordCoxEganKeyesShow results The league of sadistic telepaths: "There's someone in your head and it's not you"

[AngelGuardian93]

Shoot. I thought this was something else. *kicks a rock* There are no flowers, no not this time. There will be no angels gracing the lines, just these stark words I find. Edited by: AngelGuardian93  at: 12/27/05 15:12

[Delphi]

Haha I so thought it was a poll to see whether you or Greg Dean was better.

[Hypatia Agnesi]

Me too, actually. I was sooo tempted to actually make "The REAL Battle of the Gregs" poll, but I decided that would be rather mean. *throws grenade for the hell of it*BO0O0O0O0/\/\!!!!!!

[AngelGuardian93]

So Ardashir decided to make it. :P There are no flowers, no not this time. There will be no angels gracing the lines, just these stark words I find.

[Osman Shahanshah]

So I like sooo so did. Yanks...

[AngelGuardian93]

Still odd to hear you guys call us that. There are no flowers, no not this time. There will be no angels gracing the lines, just these stark words I find.