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Electra ([personal profile] starlady) wrote2011-06-05 03:37 pm
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Because this has been bothering me since Wiscon

Poll #7183 Greatest living SF writer?
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 35


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?



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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[personal profile] lnhammer 2011-06-06 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
The FW connection is half a joke, but only half -- notice, for example, that the last sentence is incomplete and is finished by the fragmentary first sentence.

---L.