Fav dead authors -

[Scarlett Johansson]

Simple

Who's your favorite dead (read:nonliving, expired) author?

I'd go with Sylvia Plath and Angela Carter, only because their lives were cut short so suddenly

 

[TFT-A9]

Harlan Ellison and Robert Jordan come immediately to mind. Oh, and Robert Heinlein. Probably others that just aren't coming to mind right away.

 

[The Shadow]

Robert Howard, Walter Gibson, Dennis Wheatley, Andre Norton.

 

[Fromtheblackdepths]

I enjoy Flaubert's and Vance

 

[Prince Lotor]

Roger Zelazney; and also Louise Cooper.

I think they both went a little too soon.

 

[Step Away From The Melon]

Sir Terry Pratchett the characters and world he built coupled with his insightful musings on human nature, man was so stylish he even arranged for his unfinished works to be destroyed by a steamroller.

 

[Y2K Baby]

You.

 

[Admiral Mantoid]

Tolkien, Jules Verne, Walter B. Gibson, Aaron Allston, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Frank Herbert, C. S. Lewis, Robert W. Chambers and Ann Crispin. The last one gets to me a little since back in 2013 she asked her fans on Facebook to send her hopeful messages. She passed away about 3 days after the message.

 

[Captain Manning]

H.P. Lovecraft. I don't care if he had an autistic problem with niggers, and his writing style was weird. He wrote some creepy shit that has served as an inspiration for a ridiculous amount of subsequent media.

 

[Stilgar of Troon]

H.P. Lovecraft. I don't care if he had an autistic problem with niggers, and his writing style was weird. He wrote some creepy shit that has served as an inspiration for a ridiculous amount of subsequent media.

Same. I'd add, for similar reasons, H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Frank Herbert, Tolkien, Ben Jonson.

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

H.P. Lovecraft. I don't care if he had an autistic problem with niggers, and his writing style was weird. He wrote some creepy shit that has served as an inspiration for a ridiculous amount of subsequent media.

His autistic problem with niggers is literally why I started reading his stories. Some liberal story time Youtube channel was whining about him a few Halloweens back and it made me curious so I finally sat down and read Rats In The Wall and I never looked back.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Michael Crichton.

Jurassic Park was such a massive part of my childhood that it really bums me out that the man who came up with the idea is gone, I'd be curious to know what we he would have written in regards to modern technology and also what his opinions on the modern political situation would be, as he was known to have un-PC opinions in the past.

I bet he'd have some interesting stuff to say about the modern world, especially in the case of #MeToo.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Ellison lived long enough to have his own youtube channel, every video is a treasure.

 

[Orion Balls]

Michael Crichton.

Jurassic Park was such a massive part of my childhood that it really bums me out that the man who came up with the idea is gone, I'd be curious to know what we he would have written in regards to modern technology and also what his opinions on the modern political situation would be, as he was known to have un-PC opinions in the past.

I bet he'd have some interesting stuff to say about the modern world, especially in the case of #MeToo.

There are definitely some parallels between the initial public paranoia concerning Covid-19, and the fears in Andromeda Strain. He would have enjoyed this year.

 

[Samson Pumpkin Jr.]

Hunter S. Thompson because he did drugs and was a radical cool dude. He was like a daredevil but in journalism, did you know that Thompson invented journalism? this is why he's my favourite author. I never read any of his books but Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was a pretty good movie.

 

[Ettu]

The ones I miss the most and wish who wrote more are Tolkien, Douglas Adams and nigger cat man

 

[Captain Manning]

There are definitely some parallels between the initial public paranoia concerning Covid-19, and the fears in Andromeda Strain. He would have enjoyed this year.

Great book. If anybody hasn't read it, do so. The 1971 film adaptation holds up pretty well for being so damn old.

nigger cat man

Bless Nigger Man. He was a good cat.

 

[L50LasPak]

I can think of some good ones but I'm gonna go with H Beam Piper. His work rescued me from some really harsh times. It flows so well, its so fun to read, and I dunno, the man just spoke my language. I ended up liking Federation more than Empire, though the Little Fuzzy series was still really good.

The circumstances of his death were incredibly unfortunate, and it sucks that his light hearted adventure tales all open with a massive foreward about depression and suicide clearly written after the fact by a bunch of people who in some cases, I doubt knew the man. I think a lot of people actually don't read his work because they're expecting Franz Kafka levels of misery, but nothing could be further from the truth.

 

[Caddchef]

H.G Wells, Phillip K Dick and Orwell, of the three i've always thought Orwell died too young, at least he led a very interesting life.

 

[The Bovinian Derivative]

Fuck I didn't know Ellison died, the guy was always upfront and in your face about everything and I really liked that about him. I'll have to with Father of Based Cat Naming Lovecraft, he very eloquently tried to warn us about tentacle hentai and niggers.