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Title: Alphabet Authors and Books
Post by: lowky on August 24, 2009, 02:18:30 AM
This is a variation on many of the alphabet forum games out there but want to make it more reflective of our tastes/hobbies

First person will post an Authors Name, Next person has to post either a novel by that author that starts with the Last letter of their name or another Author whose last name (ie bookstore/library categorization) begins with the last letter of their name for example

Issac Asimov
And the next person could post Venus (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?154665)

So I will start it Robert Lynn Aspirin
Title: Re: Alphabet Authors and Books
Post by: lowky on August 24, 2009, 03:16:37 PM

So I will start it Robert Lynn Aspirin

No Phule Like an Old Phule (2004) with Peter J. Heck

Harlan Ellison
Title: Re: Alphabet Authors and Books
Post by: Portrait in Flesh on August 24, 2009, 11:40:54 PM
OK, assuming I've got the right idea (and disregarding common articles like "a" and "the"), I'll go with:

The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende
Title: Re: Alphabet Authors and Books
Post by: stePH on August 25, 2009, 12:36:48 AM
OK, assuming I've got the right idea (and disregarding common articles like "a" and "the"), I'll go with:

The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende

Invalid, if I've got the right idea; The Neverending Story wasn't written by Harlan Ellison.

No Doors, No Windows (I know, it's an anthology, not a novel, but it was written by Ellison.)

And if that's invalid, then ...

Larry Niven.
Title: Re: Alphabet Authors and Books
Post by: lowky on August 25, 2009, 01:24:10 AM
OK, assuming I've got the right idea (and disregarding common articles like "a" and "the"), I'll go with:

The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende

Invalid, if I've got the right idea; The Neverending Story wasn't written by Harlan Ellison.

No Doors, No Windows (I know, it's an anthology, not a novel, but it was written by Ellison.)

And if that's invalid, then ...

Larry Niven.

You were right on all accounts if the anthology is completely Ellison (too lazy to google it), going with Larry Niven

Not Long Before the End (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?53493)

I included the link in part as it is a good source for info for this game as is wikipedia (good for bibliographies as well as list of Horror fiction writers, and list of Science fiction authors)
Title: Re: Alphabet Authors and Books
Post by: stePH on August 25, 2009, 03:38:03 AM
No Doors, No Windows is indeed a collection of Ellison stories.  He's got quite a few of those.  I also have Ellison Wonderland.

Samuel Delaney
Title: Re: Alphabet Authors and Books
Post by: lowky on August 25, 2009, 04:01:11 AM
Couldn't find a story with a y so

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro