Because this has been bothering me since Wiscon

[starlady]

Poll #7183 Greatest living SF writer?

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Greatest living SF writer?

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Ted Chiang (source: owner of Dreamhaven Books)
0 (0.0%)

Samuel R. Delany (source: me)
2 (5.9%)

Ursula K. LeGuin (source: me)
28 (82.4%)

Gene Wolfe (source: Neil Gaiman)
0 (0.0%)

someone else I will name below
4 (11.8%)

Write-in candidate?

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I just can't believe someone would put Ted Chiang over the woman who coined the term 'ansible,' but maybe I shouldn't be all that surprised.

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[louderandlouder]

Wolfe vs. Le Guin is a hell of a contest, but my heart is with her even though I appreciate Gaiman's answer. So many of the SF greats are still alive; it makes a poll like this very crowded, happily.

[starlady]

For me the choice was between LeGuin and Delany. I love some of Gene Wolfe's work, but I find other things he's written unreadable due to the misogyny and the sheer WTFery combined with being boring. I tend to quote all three of them at about the same frequency, though.