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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[lilacsigil]

LeGuin or Delany for me, but I've read more LeGuin. I think it's a bit unfair to start putting Ted Chiang (or any writer under 60!) up against that kind of competition or claim he's the best of anything yet.

[starlady]

Yeah, seriously! It's not so much that it's unfair as that it's ludicrous.