RexMundi Posted March 30, 2011 Report Share Posted March 30, 2011 Out of curiosity. I've always sorta leaned towards the real science guys writing Science Fiction. Got a list of favorites, but curious as to what Others choices would be, and what they've swiped/borrowed from said source, for use in a game. Open floor! ~Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 30, 2011 Report Share Posted March 30, 2011 Re: Favorite Real Scientist Sci Fi writers, and stuff you have cribbed from them. Isaac Asimov and David Brin are the first two that jump to my mind. Hal Clement was a science teacher, but not an actual scientist, if that's what you mean by "real science guy". OTOH, I think a science teacher is readily acceptable in that bin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted March 30, 2011 Report Share Posted March 30, 2011 Re: Favorite Real Scientist Sci Fi writers, and stuff you have cribbed from them. I blatantly ripped off a few ideas from Robert L. Forward's Saturn Rukh: enormous gas-giant dwelling life-forms, and rockets fueled by stabilized meta-helium. Both of these are really far-out ideas, but Forward did a good job of developing them. Wish he'd done the same for the characters in that novel.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Hawk Posted March 30, 2011 Report Share Posted March 30, 2011 Re: Favorite Real Scientist Sci Fi writers, and stuff you have cribbed from them. Not scientists per se, but engineers who did research... Robert Heinlein and Aurther C. Clarke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted March 31, 2011 Report Share Posted March 31, 2011 Re: Favorite Real Scientist Sci Fi writers, and stuff you have cribbed from them. Right, every few years I revisit Heinlein's Crooked House. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCoy Posted March 31, 2011 Report Share Posted March 31, 2011 Re: Favorite Real Scientist Sci Fi writers, and stuff you have cribbed from them. Not scientists per se, but engineers who did research... Robert Heinlein and Aurther C. Clarke I have trouble with any definition of "scientist" that excludes Sir Arthur Charles Clarke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexMundi Posted March 31, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2011 Re: Favorite Real Scientist Sci Fi writers, and stuff you have cribbed from them. I'm fine with Science Guy. As in Background, so no need to be a Scientist per se, teachers and engineers more then qualify. I've always been a fan of guys like Jerry Pournelle and Martin Caidin and have cribbed more then a few things from those guys. There's a batch of new folk like Travis Taylor hitting the market as well that I'm finding interesting. Some good names though....let's see more. Nice catch on Clement there to btw. ~Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 31, 2011 Report Share Posted March 31, 2011 Re: Favorite Real Scientist Sci Fi writers, and stuff you have cribbed from them. Is Vinge a scientist? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexMundi Posted March 31, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2011 Re: Favorite Real Scientist Sci Fi writers, and stuff you have cribbed from them. Vernor Vinge? I'd think so. Scientist is a term that's kinda odd anyway, especially if you look back into history and look at who was considered a Scientist in their day. Lot of Scientific Advances came out of the layperson fields. They may not have had the paper hanging on the wall saying Science Guy!, but they did the work, and used the method, and produced the product. So, all's good if it can be backed up. Fine line between Science Guy and Quack though, heh, if I could edit the title a bit I would. ~Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted March 31, 2011 Report Share Posted March 31, 2011 Re: Favorite Real Scientist Sci Fi writers, and stuff you have cribbed from them. Vinge is a math/comp sci professor. A couple of my other favorite SF authors have math degrees: Larry Niven and Stephen Baxter. I've borrowed ideas from their works for my Star Hero campaign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 31, 2011 Report Share Posted March 31, 2011 Re: Favorite Real Scientist Sci Fi writers, and stuff you have cribbed from them. I'm just not enough of a fan to know the "day jobs" of any sci-fi authors, except for a few from Way Back. So far everyone I've seen named I'd go ahead and count, now that I see their "qualifications". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 1, 2011 Report Share Posted April 1, 2011 Re: Favorite Real Scientist Sci Fi writers, and stuff you have cribbed from them. We'll count you too as soon as you write something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCoy Posted April 1, 2011 Report Share Posted April 1, 2011 Re: Favorite Real Scientist Sci Fi writers, and stuff you have cribbed from them. I'm just not enough of a fan to know the "day jobs" of any sci-fi authors' date=' except for a few from Way Back. So far everyone I've seen named I'd go ahead and count, now that I see their "qualifications".[/quote'] We'll count you too as soon as you write something. And brag We Knew You When -- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlHazred Posted April 1, 2011 Report Share Posted April 1, 2011 Re: Favorite Real Scientist Sci Fi writers, and stuff you have cribbed from them. See, for my current Traveller Hero campaign, I've been cribbing ideas from Frederik Pohl; even though he's not a scientist of any stripe, his science ideas are interesting and fun. Of course, the science he used for his biggest "Wow!" moments has been discredited, but I've figured out ways to make them work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Smithen Posted April 3, 2011 Report Share Posted April 3, 2011 Re: Favorite Real Scientist Sci Fi writers, and stuff you have cribbed from them. Carl Sagan and Nikola Tesla are two of my favorites. I have also enjoyed reading L. Ron Hubbard, Elisabeth Moon, E.E. Knight and who can leave out Gene Roddenberry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexMundi Posted April 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2011 Re: Favorite Real Scientist Sci Fi writers, and stuff you have cribbed from them. Heh, my Aunt's Third Husband (Whom she almost drove crazy before he gave up and ran for it, heh. First two, not so lucky (and they could make a movie out of both of those stories), current one is a former Ohio class boomer officer, hence, has Resistant Sanity against her level of wierd.)....he used to work the swap meets with Roddenberry back during the filming days of TOS. I keep pestering him to let me have the pictures, heh. Hate L. Ron Hubbard, every other book or so, heh. Some of his stuff I really liked. I seem to come back to Pournelle a lot for stuff to crib from. I do think though that the material is far more solid when it comes from people with background though, or at least, the sheer volume of research to equate it. ~Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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