Another Vote for Douglas Adams. Dam Salmon of Doubt cutting you off mid flow *grumble grumble *
Bring back any author you like back to life?
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I would have to second that. He was always one of my favorite authors. I've read and own just about every single one of his novels. Both of the fictional and non-fictional variety. And, quite frankly, there aren't nearly enough decent, speculative sci-fi/thriller/horror novels being written lately by any current authors. At least, none that I've seen.Coffinshaker said:
Besides Chrichton, I would also pick (in no particular order) any of the following:
Issac Asimov
Arthur C. Clarke
Carl Sagan
J.R.R. Tolkien
Jules Verne
H.G. Wells
Agatha Christie
Edgar Allan Poe
[edit][because my memory failed me]
Philip K. Dick
Frank Herbert
frank herbert. So he could finish the dune series with books that make CANONICAL SENSE. unlike his son who took to finishing the series but apparently didnt read the damn books!
Definitely Z. A. Recht. He wrote one of the finest zombie series out there - The Morningstar Saga. He also died at far too early an age at 26.
"Rise Ernest Hemingway. Rise and usher forth a new era of manli- Wait Douglas Adams, oh I'm all over that."
And so dry British literature was saved as the Hemingway zombie terrorized any and all wildlife that dared be able to kill mortal men.
And so dry British literature was saved as the Hemingway zombie terrorized any and all wildlife that dared be able to kill mortal men.
I was going to say Sir Doyle, but I am of the understanding that he hated the Holmes stories after a point and wrote them solely because they made money - and, well, Holmes is the main way I'm aware of the man. He may be a jolly good character to have a beer with, though, and certainly a good deal less morbid than his counterpart in that genre, Edgar Allan Poe (for the Dupin character).James Crook said:
For me, it's tough. On the one hand, I want to say Emile Durkheim, because, holy hell, his writings are so damn INTERESTING, and oh what I wouldn't give to pick that man's brains apart for hours on end. (His being one of the founding fathers of sociology helps with that - Weber and Marx have always been fascinating if dense, and Durkheim's logic just makes so much sense to me.) I don't know French, though, so it could be like that one time I got my hands on an old-school Malleus Maleficarum only to find that the whole thing was in Latin and thus beyond my reading abilities.
On the other...Dashiell Hammett. Oh my God, Dashiell Hammett.
Brandon Sanderson is doing a pretty good job of finishing the Wheel of Time, to be fair. Ok, it's not as textually rich, nor is the description as good, but the story is definitely Jordan's - but I can't honestly imagine Jordan finishing it any time soon, even if he were alive. Sanderson looks like he will deliver it on time - Jordan would probably have got side-tracked again (*cough* Faile's kidnapping *cough*).
I'll take the technology, and wait until Terry Pratchett finally succumbs to his Alzheimers. (Shouldn't be too long now, unfortunately...)
Unless he'd come back with his disease... Hm. Would this magical technology also fix the reason that the author died if it wasn't old age?
Unless he'd come back with his disease... Hm. Would this magical technology also fix the reason that the author died if it wasn't old age?
Hemingway. It'd be interesting to see what he'd write, and if he'd be happy with the way his posthumously published books had been edited.