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Title: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: SFEley on January 31, 2007, 03:31:24 AM: http://paulkienitz.net/skiffy.html (http://paulkienitz.net/skiffy.html)

Turns out I'm Hal Clement. Huh.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: jrderego on January 31, 2007, 03:38:11 AM: Quote from: SFEley on January 31, 2007, 03:31:24 AM
http://paulkienitz.net/skiffy.html (http://paulkienitz.net/skiffy.html)

Turns out I'm Hal Clement. Huh.

Frank Herbert? I say Huh too...

Hey, I had coffee with Hal Clement, he was very nice and talkative and gave me good advice! You got a good one!
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: scottjanssens on January 31, 2007, 04:06:46 AM: It says I'm Alfred Bester, whom I don't particularly care for.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: bekemeyer on January 31, 2007, 12:37:40 PM: i don't really know who this is. i'll have to look him up.

Samuel R. "Chip" Delany

Few have had such broad commercial success with aggressively experimental prose techniques.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: Jonathan C. Gillespie on January 31, 2007, 05:27:26 PM: E.E. "Doc" Smith

By the way, I'm going to apply at MIT for my science major in martial arts and bullets.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: Russell Nash on February 03, 2007, 07:27:21 PM: I'm Gregory Benford. I hadn't heard of him before, but after reading about him in Wikipedia, I think I'll pick up something of his.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: Roney on February 03, 2007, 11:18:31 PM: Another huh. I'm William Gibson, a writer I don't especially dislike but don't feel any affinity for. And [wracks brains] I don't think I ever finished any of the few cyberpunk pieces I attempted to write.

Maybe the quiz is broken.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: Heradel on February 04, 2007, 07:46:39 AM: I got Gregory Benford too. Also never heard of him, but will at least skim it in the store should the opportunity arise.

Perhaps you that got authors you dislike dislike them because somewhere in you you're thinking you can do better?

Or the quiz is broken.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: Russell Nash on February 04, 2007, 03:42:51 PM: Quote from: Heradel on February 04, 2007, 07:46:39 AM
I got Gregory Benford too. Also never heard of him, but will at least skim it in the store should the opportunity arise.

Perhaps you that got authors you dislike dislike them because somewhere in you you're thinking you can do better?

Or the quiz is broken.

Or they just weren't honest with themselves on the test.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: SFEley on February 04, 2007, 04:15:53 PM: Quote from: Heradel on February 04, 2007, 07:46:39 AM
Or the quiz is broken.

Probably. Most quizzes of this sort are. I just thought this one was more apropos than usual.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: Russell Nash on February 04, 2007, 06:03:40 PM: Quote from: SFEley on February 04, 2007, 04:15:53 PM
Quote from: Heradel on February 04, 2007, 07:46:39 AM
Or the quiz is broken.

Probably. Most quizzes of this sort are. I just thought this one was more apropos than usual.

These things are always just the results of the programmers opinions and nothing more. But if done right they can be fun. I was Gregory Benford. The page said when he took it, he was Arthur C. Clarke. Probably an answer we all would have liked to get. OK not all, but a lot.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: FNH on February 04, 2007, 08:01:24 PM: I'm Frank Herbert.

Thats nice ...

.. I have an urge ...

... to write about worms.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: Russell Nash on February 05, 2007, 08:31:23 AM: Quote from: FNH on February 04, 2007, 08:01:24 PM
I'm Frank Herbert.

Thats nice ...

.. I have an urge ...

... to write about worms.

I'm jealous. How do I need to change my answers to be him?
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: sirana on February 08, 2007, 02:01:08 PM: i am gibson.

YES
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: Brian Reilly on February 08, 2007, 06:03:51 PM: Chip Delany, apparently. I have read one story of his in an anthology- Aye, and Gomorrah, which I liked. apart from that, I know nothing about him.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: popepat on February 09, 2007, 03:13:47 AM: Benford. Eh.
Has anyone figured out how to get David Brin?
I already tried all the "I know all the answers" type responses and... nothing!
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: madjo on February 09, 2007, 02:51:00 PM: I'm Hal Clements too..
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: Brian Reilly on February 09, 2007, 03:08:33 PM: Quote from: popepat on February 09, 2007, 03:13:47 AM

Has anyone figured out how to get David Brin?

Just look at the page source....
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: BigDrahma on February 12, 2007, 09:39:41 PM: I'm apparently Mr. Asimov. If they insist, I suppose I can handle that. ;D
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: ClintMemo on February 13, 2007, 11:37:05 PM: Yet another Benford. I have heard of him, but I've never read his stuff.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: ClintMemo on February 13, 2007, 11:39:52 PM: Quote from: Russell Nash on February 04, 2007, 06:03:40 PM
Quote from: SFEley on February 04, 2007, 04:15:53 PM
Quote from: Heradel on February 04, 2007, 07:46:39 AM
Or the quiz is broken.

Probably. Most quizzes of this sort are. I just thought this one was more apropos than usual.

These things are always just the results of the programmers opinions and nothing more. But if done right they can be fun. I was Gregory Benford. The page said when he took it, he was Arthur C. Clarke. Probably an answer we all would have liked to get. OK not all, but a lot.

I've only read 2 Arthur C Clarke Novels - 2061, which was ok, and 3001 which I thought was pretty silly.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: Heradel on February 13, 2007, 11:42:59 PM: Quote from: ClintMemo on February 13, 2007, 11:39:52 PM
Quote from: Russell Nash on February 04, 2007, 06:03:40 PM
Quote from: SFEley on February 04, 2007, 04:15:53 PM
Quote from: Heradel on February 04, 2007, 07:46:39 AM
Or the quiz is broken.

Probably. Most quizzes of this sort are. I just thought this one was more apropos than usual.

These things are always just the results of the programmers opinions and nothing more. But if done right they can be fun. I was Gregory Benford. The page said when he took it, he was Arthur C. Clarke. Probably an answer we all would have liked to get. OK not all, but a lot.

I've only read 2 Arthur C Clarke Novels - 2061, which was ok, and 3001 which I thought was pretty silly.

Wait, you skipped 2001 and 2010?
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: lowky on March 29, 2007, 10:11:02 AM: Another Head Scratcher. I am William Gibson. Don't dislike him, just found some of his stuff slow at points for me. *shrug*
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: ClintMemo on March 29, 2007, 11:50:13 AM: Quote from: Heradel on February 13, 2007, 11:42:59 PM
Quote from: ClintMemo on February 13, 2007, 11:39:52 PM
Quote from: Russell Nash on February 04, 2007, 06:03:40 PM
Quote from: SFEley on February 04, 2007, 04:15:53 PM
Quote from: Heradel on February 04, 2007, 07:46:39 AM
Or the quiz is broken.

Probably. Most quizzes of this sort are. I just thought this one was more apropos than usual.

These things are always just the results of the programmers opinions and nothing more. But if done right they can be fun. I was Gregory Benford. The page said when he took it, he was Arthur C. Clarke. Probably an answer we all would have liked to get. OK not all, but a lot.

I've only read 2 Arthur C Clarke Novels - 2061, which was ok, and 3001 which I thought was pretty silly.

Wait, you skipped 2001 and 2010?

I saw the movies (Yes, I am aware that I am the lamest excuse for a fan in the multiverse, but thanks for the reminder. :P ). I'm sure the books were better - or at least I was until I read the next two.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: Michael on April 11, 2007, 10:06:50 AM: I got Gregory Benford as well... who is also not someone I have followed. No one has gotten Heinlein? I wanted to be Heinlein. Wonder if he is in the database?

Clearly if when Benford took it he came out Clark, there is something wrong with the matrix.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: Oblio on April 12, 2007, 11:03:30 AM: Looks like I fall in with the majority. I was also Mr. Benford. I don't know much about him either, but I would like to style myself after Arthur C. Clarke!!!! ;D
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: Heradel on April 12, 2007, 11:11:07 AM: I decided to retake the quiz. Apparently I've turned into Frank Herbert in the intervening month.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: Michael on April 12, 2007, 01:53:31 PM: It is clear to me the database matrix is off -- I looked up Benford and he is a Physicist, but to the question of what area of science, I answered Biology. If the database is "one off" on the data field, this would explain why Benford himself ended up an astronomer (Clark). Would like to see the code. ;D
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: Bdoomed on April 14, 2007, 04:59:36 AM: :( Ayn Rand
i didnt like the two novels i read of hers.
nor am i a girl heh.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: RichGarner on April 17, 2007, 03:43:51 PM: Quote from: Russell Nash on February 03, 2007, 07:27:21 PM
I'm Gregory Benford. I hadn't heard of him before, but after reading about him in Wikipedia, I think I'll pick up something of his.

I am also Gregory Benford. Now I'm interested in learning more about him.

That must be the purpose of this tool... to get us interested in authors we normally would not have heard of.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: RichGarner on April 17, 2007, 03:45:46 PM: Quote from: BigDrahma on February 12, 2007, 09:39:41 PM
I'm apparently Mr. Asimov. If they insist, I suppose I can handle that. ;D

I changed two answers and I became Cordwainer Smith (Paul M.A. Linebarger).
Changed another two and became Stanislav Lem.
Then I became Ursula K. LeGuin.

I wanna be Asimov. No fair. :)
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: GinaCole on April 24, 2007, 06:11:17 PM: I'm Kurt Vonnegut.
That explains so much.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: JaredAxelrod on May 02, 2007, 06:41:38 PM: I got Heinlen.

Which is odd, really.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: DKT on May 02, 2007, 08:53:24 PM: Philip K. Dick.

That's very cool although I'm not 100% sure I'd agree...
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: Thaurismunths on May 03, 2007, 10:39:01 AM: I'm Bill Pardy.. oh, no wait. I'm Asimov.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: wherethewild on May 07, 2007, 06:25:04 PM: I got Arthur C. Clarke.

I think we wear the same glasses.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: raygunray on May 14, 2007, 07:20:48 PM: Hal Clement. I haven't ready anything by him but now I will. I played around with it and clicked buttons that would make me the world's biggest "*".

I got Ayn Rand. No surprises there. I was hoping for Larry Niven.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: Michael on May 15, 2007, 03:53:54 AM: Larry is kind of a jerk--he once deliberately ruined a book of mine by screwing up the autograph.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: raygunray on May 15, 2007, 04:53:10 PM: Just for fun, I forwared the test to my wife and asked her to take it based on her impressions of me. Also, I did the same for her.

She was Urlsa LeGuin
I was HG Wells

When she took it for herself, she was Robert Heinlein. No wonder we're so compatible.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: Mfitz on May 15, 2007, 06:47:02 PM: Phillip Jose Farmer.

? I
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: Leon Kensington on July 23, 2007, 06:00:52 PM: I don't really know, but I think I'd like to be Cory Doctorow. Because someone who can write a novel with the Carosel of Progress as a main point is Awesome +10 in my book.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: eytanz on July 23, 2007, 08:18:36 PM: Continuing the theme of people being authors they never read, I'm William Gibson.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: Russell Nash on July 24, 2007, 10:49:21 AM: I took it again, just to see. I hadn't thought about since the first time, and I didn't remember any of the questions. I got the same answer: Gregory Benford.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: Leon Kensington on July 24, 2007, 03:50:45 PM: What quiz?
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: Leon Kensington on July 24, 2007, 03:54:42 PM: I just found and took the quiz and what do you know!

I'm Robert Heinlein awsome!
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: plantedbypiggies on August 05, 2007, 03:22:37 AM: I got David Brin. Which is okay, I guess, but I was hoping for Jack McDevitt or Gene Wolfe.
Title: Re: Which SF Writer Are You?
Post by: Planish on August 19, 2007, 02:34:29 AM: Hal Clement me is.

I have heard the name many times, but oddly enough I don't recall ever reading any of the titles listed on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Clement . They sound intriguing though.