I’d like to bring back Isaac Asimov so he can write a proper second Foundation Trilogy. When he’s done with that, he can go kick the asses of Gregory Benford, Greg Bear, and David Brin. And when he’s done with that he can kick Will Smith’s ass. And Robin Williams.
Aaaah, PHOOEY!
Little Orphan Annie could kick that star’s ass…and Williams’ as well, I’d bet!
I was just thinking about him. I’ve read all the 87th books several times up until about 2003. Did Steve Carella ever get the Deaf Man because if not that is the book I want.
Chiming in on Patrick O’Brien. I’ve actually never read the last complete Aubrey/Maturin novel, because I know that after that there will be no more Jack and Stephen! I’m saving the last book for my death bed.
I’ll also second bringing back Lewis Padgett (a.k.a. Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore) to write more stories about the mutant hillbillies.
And I didn’t even know Ed McBain was dead. 
Come on . . . wouldn’t you love to hear Merlin’s prophesy to Vortigern, done as a grand Shakespearean monologue? Or Lancelot and Guinevere, done by the guy who gave us Antony and Cleopatra? Morgause and Mordred, plotting and scheming like Lady Macbeth and Richard III? The dialogue between Tristan and Palomides during their climactic duel?
Now that I think about it, I think that each of the major knights should have his own play. Their scenes should be constructed in a modular manner, so when we film the TV version, we can splice them all together into a single twenty-hour epic. And all in formal verse, so we can set it to the music of Wagner.
When we resurrect Wagner, his first commission will be an opera about the Holocaust, as an act of penance. After that, we will team him with Shakespeare for the fun stuff.
Why does Wagner own an act of contrition for the Holocaust? Are you blaming him for his music being co-opted by the Nazis, or is there something anti-semitic in his life that I’m not aware of?
(I’m not being snarky–I really want to know.)
He wrote some things that are anti-Semitic.
But could she kick the three authors’ asses?
Yesbut, his views were pretty mainstream for that era. Unfortunatley.
If she can’t, Daddy Warbucks will send the Asp after them.
Another vote for Zelazny. I remember waiting for the next Amber novel…and waiting…and waiting…then I learned he had died and there would never be another Amber novel.
Completely,totally and utterly seconded both as to author and material,but I would demand at least ten thousand pages though I would be flexible as to how many books he’d have to fit them in.