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njaco said:Anybody else list Bradury's "The Veldt" as inspiration?
Robert Jordan
Too bad he died before he could finish his 12 book series!
I've always had a tendancy to serperate alot of the Authors. To me, Bradbury, Asimov, Verne and Welles were sci-fi. Tolkien, CS Lewis and those with dragons and such are Fantasy and Lovercraft and Dunsany are horror (though Lovecraft did have a great sci-fi story "In the Walls of Eryx" - how do you get out of a maze when the walls are transparent and moving?)
Of course, this is just IMHO.
Riiiiight....as Tolkien is the only one that I've heard about, what kinda sience fiction/fantasy do the others write??
H.G. Wells - Genre-defining Science Fiction like "The Time Machine".
Also wrote "War of the Worlds", been made into a movie more than once
J.R.R. Tolkien - Linguistically sophisticated adoption of ancient myths into a greater whole.
Lord of the Rings of course
Ray Bradbury - Poetic rather than technology-driven Sci Fi.
most Famous for "Martian Chronicles" made into a Movie about 25 years ago with Rock Hudson
Jules Verne - Genre-defining stories on realistic future technology.
His book Journey to the Center of the Earth was made into a movie
Edgar Rice Burroughs - You might have heard of one character he invented ... "Tarzan"
He also had a SF series "John Carter of Mars"
Robert Heinlein - "Starship Troopers" ... more a political manifest than a science fiction novel and made into a movie
Regards,
Henning (HoHun)