# Polls only: No discussion **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 1, 2021, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642 "2021-11-01T18:21:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5066
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5066 "2024-07-06T03:02:29Z")
_Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5066))_ _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5066))_ > [@Who:s the most famous writer of science fiction?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-s-the-most-famous-writer-of-science-fiction/1003796): > > Neil Gaiman’s name up in another thread. (Don’t know how to link on my phone. We’re having an outage.) To the readers of f&sf, he’s a big name. Yet a number of posters said they had no idea who he was. I said he might be the most famous f&sf writer in the world. That quickly got shot down. J. K. Rowling and George R. R. Martin surely top him. Neither is a writer of science fiction, though. (Martin did some long ago before his game.) So who is the most famous living sf writer? They can be media… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642)._