Directors Writers Draft (1 Viewer)

[Elizabeth S]

I'll take Donald E. Westlake (aka Richard Stark, Tucker Coe).

The amazing thing about Westlake is that he can do the ultimate hard-boiled anti-hero like Parker with his Stark name, then turn around and do his light-hearted caper stuff like the Dortmunder gang.

 

[Elizabeth S]

Up next:

George W_K
Gabe D
Walter Kittel

 

[George_W_K]

I'll take Dean R. Koontz.

 

[Walter Kittel]

Gabe - you're up.

- Walter ( who won't be around much longer for the rest of the day. )

 

[Gabe D]

Oh crap, I'm sorry. I didn't realize I was up again already. I pick Richard Matheson.

 

[ChuckDeLa]

Vickie picks Arthur C. Clarke. Here's some quotes:

"When a distinguished but elderly scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he says it is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
Clarke's First Law, from "Profiles of the Future" (1962)

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."
Clarke's Second Law, from "Profiles of the Future" (1962)

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Clarkes Third Law, from "Profiles of the Future" (1962)

"All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest."
"The City and the Stars" (1956)

"The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life - much less intelligence - beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive, we may be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime."
"Odyssey" p390

"The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be."
"2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968)

"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."
Where?

"It is better to know the truth than to dabble in delusions."
Where? (1973)

"I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here."
IRC discussion


Justin Doring is up!

 

[JenB]

Many great picks so far but I especially love J. Michael Strazcynski, Douglas Adams, and Arthur C. Clarke.

 

[Elizabeth S]

You missed Walter's turn.

 

[ChuckDeLa]

Oh crap, sorry Walter! Go ahead and pick. If you want Clarke, I have alternate picks for Vickie.

 

[Walter Kittel]

I was considering Clarke, but it wasn't an ironclad choice, so no problemo...

My next pick is another fine author who seems like a natural choice ( given their relationship ) after Asimov...

Harlan Ellison

- Walter.

 

[Brian Lawrence]

Harlan Ellison

Grrrr

There just went my next pick.

 

[Elizabeth S]

Up next:

Justin Doring
SteveGon
Angelo M.

 

[Justin Doring]

F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise
The Great Gatsby
Tender is the Night
The Last Tycoon
assorted short stories

 

[ChuckDeLa]

up next:
SteveGon
Angelo.M
Brian Lawrence

 

[SteveGon]

My next pick is H.P. Lovecraft.

"No eye had seen, no hand had touched that book since the advent of man to this planet. And yet, when I flashed my torch upon it in that frightful abyss, I saw that the queerly pigmented letters on the brittle, aeon-browned cellulose pages were not indeed any nameless hieroglyphs of earth's youth. They were, instead, the letters of our familiar alphabet, spelling out the words of the English language in my own handwriting."

- The Shadow Out of Time

 

[Angelo.M]

ernest hemingway

favortie novel: the sun also rises
favorite short story: a clean, well-lighted place

 

[Brian Lawrence]

As sci-fi writers seem to be getting scooped up pretty fast I had better grab while the getting is good and lay claim to my 2nd favorite sci-fi writer (Harlan is taken already).


-Robert A. Heinlein

 

[ChuckDeLa]

up next:
John Dhein
Jan H
ErikG

 

[JenB]

Great choice with Heinlein, Brian!
He is my favorite science fiction writer.

 

[Dheiner]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!! !!!!

Two rounds in a row, my pick goes right before my turn. Crap.


Ok, well, let's see.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle