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WadeVC
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 05, 2024 9:34 am    Post subject: Favorite Authors Reply with quote

For those of us who enjoy reading, who are your 5 favorite authors, in any category?

Mine are:
1. H.G. Wells
2. Edgar Rice Burroughs
3. Jules Verne
4. Preston & Childs
5. Arthur Conan Doyle

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Bud Brewster
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 05, 2024 12:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I went to Wikipedia to get a list of science fiction authors, just to jog memory, and I ended up making the list below. The titles listed are just examples of stories by each author that I enjoy.
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Isaac Asimov ~ Caves of Steel

Hal Clement ~ Mission of Gravity

Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes novels

Larry Niven - Ringworld, Protector

Harry Harrison ~ Death World, Plague from Space

Robert A. Heinlein~ Stranger in a Strange Land

Raymond F. Jones ~ Son of the Stars

John D. MacDonald ~ The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything, Wine of the Dreamers, Ballroom of the Skies

Theodore Sturgeon ~ Killdozer, Hurricane Trio

Jules Verne ~ some story about a submarine, can't remember the name . . . Rolling Eyes

H.G. Well ~ some story about a machine that made clocks and snails move faster . . . Rolling Eyes

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