# Current Sci Fi writers

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-sci-fi-writers/698127>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 10, 2014, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-sci-fi-writers/698127 "2014-09-10T23:45:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![callander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@callander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/callander)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-sci-fi-writers/698127/21 "2014-09-12T00:13:09Z")

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> [@E-DUB](#):
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> I like Alan Steele a lot.
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> Robert J. Sawyer is another favorite. A lot of sf writers get the science right, a lot do characterization right. Sawyer is that rare writer who does both at once. And, as a bonus, he’s a trekkie and almost always throws a Trek reference or two into every novel.

I agree with you Sawyer is up there for me too, part of the reason I started this thread was because of him actually, I hope to be going to a reading soon, I have so many questions I would like to ask him.

I love that he throws in a little Star Trek too.

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-sci-fi-writers/698127/22 "2014-09-12T00:37:31Z")

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> [@Evil\_Captor](#):
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> He might make some nice money selling them on Amazon for two bucks a pop if they are that good.

He makes more money selling them to paying markets; all have been collected and reprinted, and I doubt they would have mass appeal.

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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-sci-fi-writers/698127/23 "2014-09-12T03:11:16Z")

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> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#):
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> Lois McMaster Bujold

\<loks at name\> Gee, I couldn’t tell 😃

I hang on her [email list](http://www.dendarii.com/mail_list.html), so I can ask her anything I want, and have asked her pretty much anything I wanted.

If your favorite author is a Baen author, they do have a message board and may authors do read and respond.  
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**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-sci-fi-writers/698127/24 "2014-09-12T04:46:30Z")

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> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> He makes more money selling them to paying markets; all have been collected and reprinted, and I doubt they would have mass appeal.

What do you think Amazon is?

If you could see the crap that is being sold for two buck a pop there …

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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-sci-fi-writers/698127/25 "2014-09-12T09:18:42Z")

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My current favourite is China Miéville, and I have no desire to ask him anything.

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