Author Topic: Which SF Writer Are You? (Read 22148 times)

Oblio · **Reply #25 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!!!!

Heradel · **Reply #26 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.

Michael · **Reply #27 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.

Bdoomed · **Reply #28 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.

RichGarner · **Reply #29 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.

RichGarner · **Reply #30 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.

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.

GinaCole · **Reply #31 on:** April 24, 2007, 06:11:17 PM

I'm Kurt Vonnegut.
That explains so much.

JaredAxelrod · **Reply #32 on:** May 02, 2007, 06:41:38 PM

I got Heinlen.

Which is odd, really.

DKT · **Reply #33 on:** May 02, 2007, 08:53:24 PM

Philip K. Dick.

That's very cool although I'm not 100% sure I'd agree...

Thaurismunths · **Reply #34 on:** May 03, 2007, 10:39:01 AM

I'm Bill Pardy.. oh, no wait. I'm Asimov.

wherethewild · **Reply #35 on:** May 07, 2007, 06:25:04 PM

I got Arthur C. Clarke.

I think we wear the same glasses.

raygunray · **Reply #36 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.

Michael · **Reply #37 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.

raygunray · **Reply #38 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.

Mfitz · **Reply #39 on:** May 15, 2007, 06:47:02 PM

Phillip Jose Farmer.

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Leon Kensington · **Reply #40 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.

eytanz · **Reply #41 on:** July 23, 2007, 08:18:36 PM

Continuing the theme of people being authors they never read, I'm William Gibson.

Russell Nash · **Reply #42 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.

Leon Kensington · **Reply #43 on:** July 24, 2007, 03:50:45 PM

What quiz?

Leon Kensington · **Reply #44 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!

plantedbypiggies · **Reply #45 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.

Planish · **Reply #46 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.