Survivor Appendix N Authors- LEIBER WINS!

[CleverNickName]

Bellairs, John 19
Brackett, Leigh 14
Brown, Frederic 18
Burroughs, Edgar Rice 26
Carter, Lin 16
de Camp, L. Sprague 16
de Camp & Pratt 20
Dunsany, Lord 19
Farmer, P. J. 19
Gardner, Fox 21
Howard, R.E. 14-2=12
Lanier, Sterling 18
Leiber, Fritz 23
Merritt, A. 20
Moorcock, Michael 26
Norton, Andre 24
Offutt, Andrew J. 20
Pratt, Fletcher 20
Saberhagen, Fred 12
St. Clair, Margaret 18
Tolkien, J. R. R. 25+1=26
Weinbaum, Stanley 16
Wellman, Manley Wade 18
Williamson, Jack 18
Zelazny, Roger 23

 

[lowkey13]

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[Gradine]

and CRANK 2: HIGH VOLTAGE!*"

*He was dead, but he got better**.

In case anyone was wondering, this is a real thing that happened, not lowkey just yanking your chain as per his particular idiom




**for certain qualities of "better"

 

[lowkey13]

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[Parmandur]

I went to see that movie 15 years ago.

I AM STILL WAITING FOR IT TO END.

Yes, exactly, Jackson wasn'y quite up to the task, though they were still good movies. Not as good as the books, that probably would have required the Kibrick project to have taken off.

 

[TiwazTyrsfist]

But those are literally the best parts? Sure, lots of folks can write fights (at which Tolkien was better than average), but it takes talent to describe trees.

I for one am still upset that Tom Bombadil didn't make it even into the extended cut of the movies.

 

[tglassy]

Yes. Jackson was so not up to the task that they asked him to mak the a second trilogy and they’ve won 21 oscars all together.

I love it when people bash successful artists, claiming their works to be subpar. Like Stephanie Meyer and Twilight. It has been 13 years and people still talk about that book. Sure, it sucked, but something about the writing made me want to finish it. She made so much money off those books it is unreal. If ONLY I could write something that bad.

And then we have people saying Tolkien and Jackson were overrated. I tell you what, if that’s mediocrity, then I hope I become half as mediocre as them. Then I’d ONLY be a multimillionaire.

 

[Parmandur]

Yes. Jackson was so not up to the task that they asked him to mak the a second trilogy and they’ve won 21 oscars all together.

I love it when people bash successful artists, claiming their works to be subpar. Like Stephanie Meyer and Twilight. It has been 13 years and people still talk about that book. Sure, it sucked, but something about the writing made me want to finish it. She made so much money off those books it is unreal. If ONLY I could write something that bad.

And then we have people saying Tolkien and Jackson were overrated. I tell you what, if that’s mediocrity, then I hope I become half as mediocre as them. Then I’d ONLY be a multimillionaire.

I said Jackson is not as good a film maker as Tolkien was a writer: there's a lot of room below Tolkien level greatness. It's like saying Franco Zeffirelli wasn't as good a film maker as Shakespeare was a writer. Doesn't mean Jackson and Zeffirelli aren't good, but they aren't Buñuel or Kubrick good.

 

[Dausuul]

Bellairs, John 19
Brackett, Leigh 14
Brown, Frederic 18
Burroughs, Edgar Rice 26
Carter, Lin 16
de Camp, L. Sprague 16
de Camp & Pratt 20
Dunsany, Lord 19
Farmer, P. J. 19
Gardner, Fox 21
Howard, R.E. 12
Lanier, Sterling 18
Leiber, Fritz 23
Merritt, A. 20
Moorcock, Michael 24
Norton, Andre 24
Offutt, Andrew J. 20
Pratt, Fletcher 20
Saberhagen, Fred 12
St. Clair, Margaret 18
Tolkien, J. R. R. 26
Weinbaum, Stanley 16
Wellman, Manley Wade 18
Williamson, Jack 18
Zelazny, Roger 24

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Well, yeah, but Pride and Prejudice was number 2, and His Dark Materials was number 3.

Seem like pretty good choices to me, although Austin probably should be number one, for writing romcoms that can be enjoyed by hardcore fantasy buffs.

Austin is certainly better than any of the names on the list, and Pullman better than most of them.


The list does tell you this: Dungeons & Dragons was invented by people who read a lot more magazines than they did novels.