The Daily Feud: Golden Age SF Authors by Little Nemo [Game Over]

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  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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  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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  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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  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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Can I join you? I have leftover sugar cookies from Christmas. :slight_smile:

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  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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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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  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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  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
30
  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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  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
32
  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
33
  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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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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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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.