Author Topic: Which SF Writer Are You? (Read 22184 times)

SFEley · **on:** January 31, 2007, 03:31:24 AM

http://paulkienitz.net/skiffy.html

Turns out I'm Hal Clement. Huh.

jrderego · **Reply #1 on:** January 31, 2007, 03:38:11 AM

Quote from: SFEley on January 31, 2007, 03:31:24 AM

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!

scottjanssens · **Reply #2 on:** January 31, 2007, 04:06:46 AM

It says I'm Alfred Bester, whom I don't particularly care for.

bekemeyer · **Reply #3 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.

Jonathan C. Gillespie · **Reply #4 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.

Russell Nash · **Reply #5 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.

Roney · **Reply #6 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.

Heradel · **Reply #7 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.

Russell Nash · **Reply #8 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.

SFEley · **Reply #9 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.

Russell Nash · **Reply #10 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.

FNH · **Reply #11 on:** February 04, 2007, 08:01:24 PM

I'm Frank Herbert.

Thats nice ...

.. I have an urge ...

... to write about worms.

Russell Nash · **Reply #12 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?

sirana · **Reply #13 on:** February 08, 2007, 02:01:08 PM

i am gibson.

YES

Brian Reilly · **Reply #14 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.

popepat · **Reply #15 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!

madjo · **Reply #16 on:** February 09, 2007, 02:51:00 PM

I'm Hal Clements too..

Brian Reilly · **Reply #17 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....

BigDrahma · **Reply #18 on:** February 12, 2007, 09:39:41 PM

I'm apparently Mr. Asimov. If they insist, I suppose I can handle that.

ClintMemo · **Reply #19 on:** February 13, 2007, 11:37:05 PM

Yet another Benford. I have heard of him, but I've never read his stuff.

ClintMemo · **Reply #20 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.

Heradel · **Reply #21 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?

lowky · **Reply #22 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*

ClintMemo · **Reply #23 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.

). I'm sure the books were better - or at least I was until I read the next two.

Michael · **Reply #24 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.