# The Daily Feud: Golden Age SF Authors by Little Nemo \[Game Over\]
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-golden-age-sf-authors-by-little-nemo-game-over/479976
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [January 5, 2009, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-golden-age-sf-authors-by-little-nemo-game-over/479976 "2009-01-05T19:00:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-golden-age-sf-authors-by-little-nemo-game-over/479976/21 "2009-01-05T21:04:29Z")
1. Brain Wave
2. Foundation
3. The Stars My Destination
4. Fahrenheit 451
5. 2001
6. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
7. Starship Troopers
8. The Space Merchants
9. A Time of Changes
10. The Moon Moth
9 - Honestly, I’m more familiar with his work as an anthology editor, but those aren’t novels or short stories.
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### Author:  [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2009, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-golden-age-sf-authors-by-little-nemo-game-over/479976/22 "2009-01-05T21:21:11Z")
1. After Doomsday
2. I, Robot
3. The Demolished Man
4. The Martian Chronicles
5. 2001 A Space Odyssey
6. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
7. Stranger in a Strange Land
8. Gateway
9. The Majipoor Series - If I have to choose one then: Sorcerers of Majipoor
10. Big Planet
10 - The Araminta Station Trilogy is my favorite, but I’m going for points,
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### Author:  [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2009, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-golden-age-sf-authors-by-little-nemo-game-over/479976/23 "2009-01-05T22:05:42Z")
1. Tau Zero
2. I, Robot
3. The Stars My Destination
4. Fahrenheit 451
5. The City and the Stars
6. Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman
7. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
8. Gateway
9. Nightwings
10. The Last Castle
Had to fish around for a pick for Anderson, Silverberg and Vance. Never read them.
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### Author:  [@Reno\_Nevada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reno_Nevada)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2009, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-golden-age-sf-authors-by-little-nemo-game-over/479976/24 "2009-01-05T22:30:03Z")
1. Three Hearts and Three Lions
2. Nightfall
3. The Stars My Destination
4. The Illustrated Man
5. 2001
6. Last Dangerous Visions
7. Stranger in a Strange Land
8. Gateway
9. Lord Valentine’s Castle
10. The Dying Earth
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### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2009, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-golden-age-sf-authors-by-little-nemo-game-over/479976/25 "2009-01-05T22:45:33Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#):
>
> Eh, tried but gave up. Don’t know enough about the subject. Play on, you crazy diamonds.
Can I join you? I have leftover sugar cookies from Christmas. 🙂
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2009, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-golden-age-sf-authors-by-little-nemo-game-over/479976/26 "2009-01-05T22:46:28Z")
1. Tau Zero
2. The Foundation Trilogy
3. The Stars My Destination
4. The Martian Chronicles
5. Childhood’s End
6. I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
7. Stranger in a Strange Land
8. Gateway
9. Lord Valentine’s Castle
10. The Dying Earth
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### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2009, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-golden-age-sf-authors-by-little-nemo-game-over/479976/27 "2009-01-05T22:46:35Z")
> [@JohnT](#):
>
> Fine. Make me do all this work over again. 😛
>
> 1. Brain Wave
> 2. Foundation
> 3. Stars My Destination
> 4. Fahrenheit 451
> 5. Childhood’s End
> 6. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
> 7. Starship Troopers
> 8. Gateway
> 9. The Alien Years
> 10. The Dying Earth
Thanks, and welcome!
(I might get a bunch of newbies in here before the mods move the thread back to The Game Room!)
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### Author:  [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2009, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-golden-age-sf-authors-by-little-nemo-game-over/479976/28 "2009-01-05T23:16:06Z")
1. The Corridors of Time
2. Foundation
3. The Stars My Destination
4. Martian Chronicles
5. Childhood’s End
6. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
7. Stranger in a Strange Land
8. Jem
9. Hawksbill Station
10. The Dying Earth
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### Author:  [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2009, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-golden-age-sf-authors-by-little-nemo-game-over/479976/29 "2009-01-05T23:37:41Z")
1. The Man Who Counts
2. Foundation
3. The Stars My Destination
4. The Illustrated Man
5. The Sentinel
6. I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream
7. Stranger in a Strange Land
8. Gateway
9. Nightwings
10. Emphyrio
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### Author:  [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2009, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-golden-age-sf-authors-by-little-nemo-game-over/479976/30 "2009-01-06T00:10:14Z")
1. The Broken Sword
2. The Gods Themselves
3. The Stars My Destination
4. Something Wicked This Way Comes
5. Rendezvous With Rama
6. A Boy and His Dog
7. Glory Road
8. The Gold At the Starbow’s End
9. Passengers
10. The Moonmoth
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2009, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-golden-age-sf-authors-by-little-nemo-game-over/479976/31 "2009-01-06T02:15:13Z")
1. Tau Zero
2. I, Robot
3. The Stars my Destination
4. The Martian Chronicles
5. Childhood’s end
6. I have no mouth and I must scream
7. Starship Troopers
8. Gateway
9. Lord Valentines Castle
10. The Dying Earth
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2009, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-golden-age-sf-authors-by-little-nemo-game-over/479976/32 "2009-01-06T02:53:20Z")
1. Tau Zero
2. Nightfall
3. The Stars My Destination
4. A Sound of Thunder
5. A Meeting with Medusa
6. I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
7. Stranger in a Strange Land
8. Gateway
9. Nightwings
10. The Last Castle
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### Author:  [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2009, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-golden-age-sf-authors-by-little-nemo-game-over/479976/33 "2009-01-06T02:56:45Z")
1. Tomorrow’s Children
2. I, Robot
3. The Demolished Man
4. Martian Chronicles
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey
6. A Boy And His Dog
7. Stranger In A Strange Land
8. Gateway
9. Lord Valentine’s Castle
10. The Dragon Masters
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2009, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-golden-age-sf-authors-by-little-nemo-game-over/479976/34 "2009-01-06T03:03:33Z")
> [@](#):
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> Also, a friendly quibble-some of these authors aren’t Golden Age (IMO). They’re all great, classic authors but I’d argue Ellison and Silverburg in particular are post-Golden Age.
I’ll admit I may have stretched the definition. Ellison and Silverberg were both published authors back in the fifties, which was the end of the “Golden Age”, but became well-known later. But the bottom line is I wanted to have ten authors casual fans were likely to know without having to google too much. Most people aren’t going to be able to name works by Hal Clement, Henry Kuttner, or A.E. van Vogt off the top of their head. At best, we’d have had everyone picking the same classics.
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### Author:  [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2009, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-golden-age-sf-authors-by-little-nemo-game-over/479976/35 "2009-01-06T03:46:17Z")
1. Un-man
2. Foundation
3. The Stars My Destination
4. The Martian Chronicles
5. 2001
6. “Repent, Harlequin” Said the Ticktock Man
7. Have Spacesuit, Will Travel
8. Heechee Rendezvous
9. Sailing to Byzantium
10. Earth Abides
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2009, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-golden-age-sf-authors-by-little-nemo-game-over/479976/36 "2009-01-06T04:33:52Z")
1. Tomorrow’s Children
2. I, Robot
3. The Stars My Destination
4. Farenheit 451
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey
6. A Boy and His Dog
7. Starship Troopers
8. Gateway
9. Nightwings
10. The Dying Earth
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### Author:  [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2009, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-golden-age-sf-authors-by-little-nemo-game-over/479976/37 "2009-01-06T10:08:00Z")
1. Three Hearts And Three Lions
2. Foundation Trilogy
3. The Stars My Destination
4. Farenheit 451
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey
6. A Boy And His Dog
7. Stranger In A Strange Land
8. Gateway
9. Nightwings
10. The Dying Earth
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### Author:  [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2009, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-golden-age-sf-authors-by-little-nemo-game-over/479976/38 "2009-01-06T13:52:49Z")
1. The Man Who Counts
2. Foundation
3. The Demolished Man
4. The Martian Chronicles
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey
6. A Boy and His Dog
7. Stranger in a Strange Land
8. Gateway
9. Nightwings
10. The Dying Earth
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### Author:  [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-golden-age-sf-authors-by-little-nemo-game-over/479976/39 "2009-01-06T15:27:16Z")
1. Hoka!
2. Foundation
3. The Stars My Destination
4. Farenheit 451
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey
6. I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
7. Stranger in a Strange Land
8. Starchild
9. Nightwings
10. The Last Castle
What, no Larry Niven or Jerry Pournelle? For shame! (on edit, I just realised that neither author had anything published until the 60’s, which I suppose makes them a decade too late to qualify for “Golden Age”)
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2009, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-golden-age-sf-authors-by-little-nemo-game-over/479976/40 "2009-01-06T15:50:58Z")
> [@Rebo](#):
>
> 1. Name a work (novel or short story) by Poul Anderson
> 2. Name a work by Isaac Asimov
> 3. Name a work by Alfred Bester
> 4. Name a work by Ray Bradbury
> 5. Name a work by Arthur Clarke
> 6. Name a work by Harlan Ellison
> 7. Name a work by Robert Heinlein
> 8. Name a work by Frederik Pohl
> 9. Name a work by Robert Silverberg
> 10. Name a work by Jack Vance
1 - The High Crusade
2 - Foundation
3 - The Stars my Destination
4 - Farenheit 451
5 - 2001
6 - “A Boy and his Dog”
7 - Stranger in a Strange Land
8 - Gateway
9 - Lord Valentine’s Castle
10 - The Dying Earth
Hardest to pick was Poul Anderson (my first instinct was to go for Three Hearts and Three Lions because, which SF do you pick? I might have gone for “Time Patrol”. Or Tau Zero come to think of it).
ETA: wow, looking at results so far, I’m surprised to see so much variety in the Vance and Clarke entries, and so little in the Heinlein. Should have gone with Tau Zero.
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