Bring back any author you like back to life?

[Belaam]

It's been said several times, but Douglas Adams.

Robert Jordan at least left copious notes so his story will be finished.


(Note: I reserve the right to change this answer after Pratchett goes)

 

[Puye]

Lovecraft all the way.

 

[William Ossiss]

You have advance technology that can bring a dead author back to life, who would it be?

I've really enjoyed many Lovecraft tales so it would be him

oh, hooray. your bringing back a racist!


OT: Brian Jaques. i would like some more redwall books, thank you.

 

[derob]

Judging from his last work (which was published posthumously) "Byrne: a novel", Burgess' work was only getting stronger and much more precise with time. Giving him even at least another ten years to keep writing would have brought some great work to fruition.

 

[Kayevcee]

Douglas Adams. No one else. i need more dirk gently. i need more hitchhiker. but there will be never more of it...except the horrible-to-average eoin colfer fanfiction.

And related to that, a pre-alzheimer pratchett would be nice. not that i dislike his books now, but i don't want him to stop. He shall turn a zombie and write forever and ever, i say!

Good man! Adams would the dream, but I'll settle for a post-regeneration Pratchett after the Alzheimer's sadly takes him from us*.

-Nick

*He's publically stated that when it gets so bad he can no longer function he's going to take his own life. Damn you Alzheimer's! On several levels!

 

[mercifulwrath]

Edgar Allan Poe. Am I scarily obsessed with his writing? Perhaps. But anyone who codifies and invents the modern detective story wins in my book. Before there was Sherlock Holmes, there was C. Auguste Dupin.

Plus I'd love to get a chance to talk to him and see what he was really like.

Same here. I've pretty much read everything he's done, including his poems. I still remember almost pissing myself the first time I read The Black Cat when I was like 10.

 

[William Ossiss]

You have advance technology that can bring a dead author back to life, who would it be?

I've really enjoyed many Lovecraft tales so it would be him

Oh, hooray. You're bringing back a racist!

Bring Back Brian Jacques. Eulalia!

You know who else was racist back then? Everyone.

an assumption like that would just be ignorant. not EVERYONE was racist. just moronic asshats like Lovecraft. also, his writing is kind of... Blase'. it's truly boring.

 

[Nemu]

Hmmm...

Mary Shelley or Poe, I think.

I'm a big fan of classic horror/sci-fi when reading non-fiction and those are two authors who didn't really put out enough work for me to read. [footnote]Mostly since Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury and Brian Jacques put out a wealth of novels/stories for me to read already.[/footnote]

 

[Sariteiya]

Mary Ann Shaffer. She only published one book, "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society"; It was a fantastic book, and she seemed like such a promising author, but then she passed away. I also sort of feel bad for her. She died before her book became a hit; she never got to see how successful it became.

 

[ResonanceSD]

Asimov and Jordan. Mainly Asimov. And I guess Douglas Adams.


And if we can cure Pratchett sooner rather than later, that would be Ace.

 

[SleepyChan]

Diana Wynne Jones. Loved everything she did.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

The only author who has inspired me to read.

Henry Phillips Lovecraft.

 

[Berenzen]

I'm suprised no one has brought him up yet- Leo Tolstoy, with Alexandre Dumas Sr. as a close second.

 

[ElectroJosh]

Kurt Vonnegut. He lived a couple towns over, but died a few years before I even heard of him. Would love to have gotten just to chat with him for a single morning even if it was about nothing.

You stole my one...

Seriously I love this guy's stuff and if you haven't read him yet get your ass out there and hunt down one of his books (starting with Slaughter House 5).

 

[ReaperGrimm]

Tolkien or Michael Crichton

Tolkien - I'd love to sit in a room with him and see what he made of the films; it'd be interesting to see whether or not he enjoys them.

yea that would be interesting

 

[The Shade]

Douglas Adams, so he can finish The Salmon of Doubt.

Dirk Gently FTW.

 

[therandombear]

David Eddings...>.>

I really liked his books.

 

[Pierce Graham]

Bram Stoker, so that he can open up a can of whupass on Stefanie Meyer.