Which deceased SF&F Authors would you like to talk to?

[BigBadBob141]

Definitely Terry Pratchett, from what I've seen of him he was a lovely man full of ideas, taken far too soon from this world, while suffering from a truly horrible mental disease!

 

[pogopossum]

Met him once at a book and author lunch. I think that I was the only SFF fan there so we talked for a bit, but the signing line was building up behind me so I had to stop. Had him sign a bunch of French eds of his books as my son loved pterry & was upping his French before a jr. year abroad.
I think that he was pleased that someone in Cleveland actually knew him. Asked a question from the audience about Ankh-Morpork that left everyone else in the audience totally puzzled.

 

[BAYLOR]

Robert Sheckley

 

[Toby Frost]

There's a lot of good authors whoI suspect would be dull, arrogant or just plain weird, but I reckon Harry Harrison would be both interesting and quite a reasonable guy.

 

[BAYLOR]

There's a lot of good authors whoI suspect would be dull, arrogant or just plain weird, but I reckon Harry Harrison would be both interesting and quite a reasonable guy.

He wrote lots of great books and stories.

 

[Toby Frost]

Yes, I think he gets dismissed somewhat as just a parodist, but some of his serious work is really good. I remember liking West of Eden and Prime Number quite a lot. At any rate, you'd get a decent conversation out of him, and not just a lecture.

 

[Vince W]

Harry Harrison, Harlan Ellison, Ben Bova, and Keith Laumer. I think they'd all have something interesting to say.

 

[Fiberglass Cyborg]

Another for Iain M. Banks. I got into the British convention scene just after he passed away, and was struck by how many fans missed him as a genuinely decent and friendly person, not just as a Great Writer. Plus, I'd have bent his ear about "The Algebraist" a bit, which might have given him a break from the Culture.... love that book.

It would certainly be interesting to have a chat with H.P. Lovecraft, though you'd have to steer the conversation away from certain topics.

 

[JimC]

John D. MacDonald

 

[Elckerlyc]

Honestly, I have no desire to talk to deceased people. It tends to freak me out.

Better to talk to authors while they are still with us.

 

[tobl]

Honestly, I have no desire to talk to deceased people. It tends to freak me out.

Better to talk to authors while they are still with us.

you know... i have no problem speaking with dead people. It just gets bad if they start responding.
as for author... i don't know, and not hurt sensibilities someone named G.. with 3 letters?

 

[BigBadBob141]

I remember once dreaming that I was at a convention, talking to Clifford D. Simak.
I was a big fan of his at the time!

 

[Ray Zdybrow]

I'd like to locate and converse with the Robotic Head of Philip K Dick... current whereabouts unknown.
As Friar Bacon's Brazen Head asserted, "Time is, Time was, Time's Past... time for Tiswas".
Who is the Phantom Flan Flinger? And why?

 

[TWErvin2]

Roger Zelazny

 

[Dave Vicks]

Lester Dent
HP Lovecraft.

 

[AE35Unit]

Clarke and Asimov

 

[bretbernhoft]

I would enjoy meeting Frank Herbert, and asking him how he thought through the long-term narratives that weave throughout his books; especially the first Dune book. He was able to set up a lot of miraculous conditions by passing great periods of time within a few pages of his stories.

 

[PadreTX]

If it was one person and not a group of people that did the writing, Homer. What caused him to be able to write such incredible tales from that time period.

 

[BAYLOR]

Seabury Quinn
Isaac Asmov
Frank Herbert
Ray Bradbury
Austin Tappan Wright
Theodore Surgeon
Alfred Bester
C M Kornbluth
A E Van Vogt
Lord Dunsany
Nigel Kneale
Henry Kuttner
C L Moore
Leigh Bracket
Tanith Lee
James Tiptree
Jack London
William Hope Hodgson
H G Wells
Jules Verne
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Clifford Simak
Arthur C. Clark
Poul Anderson
Basil Copper
H Rider Haggard
August Derleth
Walter Brown Gibson
Norvel Page
Gardener Fox
Francis Stevens

 

[Robert Zwilling]

Brunner and Dick