Survivor Appendix N Authors- LEIBER WINS!

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[Ralif Redhammer]

Aw, man, I like Lanier's Hiero's Journey. It's so goofy and bizarre in an un-self-conscious way. And it's pretty much proto-Gamma World.

Does that mean that they deserve to fall before Sterling-fricking-Lanier, whose greatest claim to fame is appearing in Appendix N of the AD&D DMG?

 

[Lidgar]

Anderson, Poul 18
Bellairs, John 21
Brackett, Leigh 20
Brown, Frederic 20
Burroughs, Edgar Rice 21
Carter, Lin 20
de Camp, L. Sprague 20
de Camp & Pratt 20
Derleth, August 20
Dunsany, Lord 18
Farmer, P. J. 20
Fox, Gardner 20
Howard, R. E. 19
Lanier, Sterling 20
Leiber, Fritz 21
Lovecraft, H. P. 7
Merritt, A. 21
Moorcock, Michael 22
Norton, Andre 20 + 1 = 21 He has a whole shelf to himself at my Public Library, therefore he must be a good author, right?
Offutt, Andrew J. 20
Pratt, Fletcher 20
Saberhagen, Fred 20 - 2 = 18 If we travel back in time and get him before he can write the Berzerkers, think how many lives across the Universe we can save!
St. Clair, Margaret 20
Tolkien, J. R. R. 22
Vance, Jack 19
Weinbaum, Stanley 18
Wellman, Manley Wade 20
Williamson, Jack 18
Zelazny, Roger 21

Andre Norton is (was) a she. And yes, she was very good. Her book Quag Keep was actually a retelling of a D&D session she had with Mr. Gygax.

 

[Bradley Hindman]

Anderson, Poul 18
Bellairs, John 21
Brackett, Leigh 20
Brown, Frederic 20
Burroughs, Edgar Rice 21
Carter, Lin 20
de Camp, L. Sprague 20
de Camp & Pratt 20
Derleth, August 20 -2 = 18 Just Blech!
Dunsany, Lord 18
Farmer, P. J. 20
Fox, Gardner 20
Howard, R. E. 19
Lanier, Sterling 20
Leiber, Fritz 21
Lovecraft, H. P. 7
Merritt, A. 21
Moorcock, Michael 22
Norton, Andre 21
Offutt, Andrew J. 20
Pratt, Fletcher 20
Saberhagen, Fred 18
St. Clair, Margaret 20
Tolkien, J. R. R. 22
Vance, Jack 19
Weinbaum, Stanley 18
Wellman, Manley Wade 20
Williamson, Jack 18
Zelazny, Roger 21 + 1 = 22

I was torn between upvoting Zelazny (my favorite is actually the posthumous "Lord Demon") and Andre Norton (I've read dozens of her books over the years).

The downvote was easy.

 

[Gradine]

Lots of axe-grinding so far. I guess it's too much to ask that people focus on downvoting the obscure, no-name also-rans before tackling the big-name authors. We get it, you think super-popular-legendary-iconic-author is over-appreciated. Does that mean that they deserve to fall before Sterling-fricking-Lanier, whose greatest claim to fame is appearing in Appendix N of the AD&D DMG?

The way things are going now, we're going to end up with Andrew Offutt, Fletcher Pratt, and Manley Wade Wellman in the final 3, and people are going to wonder WTF happened.

Survivor threads have always been more about "least hated" than "most loved"; why else would Birthright and Lankhmar win the Survivor Setting threads?

 

[the Jester]

Anderson, Poul 18
Bellairs, John 21
Brackett, Leigh 20
Brown, Frederic 20
Burroughs, Edgar Rice 21
Carter, Lin 20
de Camp, L. Sprague 20
de Camp & Pratt 20
Derleth, August 20 -2 =18
Dunsany, Lord 18
Farmer, P. J. 20
Fox, Gardner 20
Howard, R. E. 19
Lanier, Sterling 20
Leiber, Fritz 21
Lovecraft, H. P. 7
Merritt, A. 21
Moorcock, Michael 22
Norton, Andre 21
Offutt, Andrew J. 20
Pratt, Fletcher 20
Saberhagen, Fred 18
St. Clair, Margaret 20
Tolkien, J. R. R. 22
Vance, Jack 19
Weinbaum, Stanley 18
Wellman, Manley Wade 20
Williamson, Jack 18
Zelazny, Roger 21 +1 = 22

My +1 was easy. I had to look in to what some of the others wrote for my -2.

 

[Blue]

Anderson, Poul 18
Bellairs, John 21
Brackett, Leigh 20 - 2 = 18
Brown, Frederic 20
Burroughs, Edgar Rice 21
Carter, Lin 20
de Camp, L. Sprague 20
de Camp & Pratt 20
Derleth, August 18
Dunsany, Lord 18
Farmer, P. J. 20
Fox, Gardner 20
Howard, R. E. 19
Lanier, Sterling 20
Leiber, Fritz 21
Lovecraft, H. P. 7
Merritt, A. 21
Moorcock, Michael 22
Norton, Andre 21
Offutt, Andrew J. 20
Pratt, Fletcher 20
Saberhagen, Fred 18
St. Clair, Margaret 20
Tolkien, J. R. R. 22
Vance, Jack 19
Weinbaum, Stanley 18
Wellman, Manley Wade 20
Williamson, Jack 18
Zelazny, Roger 22 + 1 = 23

 

[Ed Laprade]

Anderson, Poul 18
Bellairs, John 21
Brackett, Leigh 18
Brown, Frederic 20
Burroughs, Edgar Rice 21
Carter, Lin 20
de Camp, L. Sprague 20
de Camp & Pratt 20
Derleth, August 18 -2 = 16
Dunsany, Lord 18
Farmer, P. J. 20
Fox, Gardner 20
Howard, R. E. 19
Lanier, Sterling 20
Leiber, Fritz 21
Lovecraft, H. P. 7
Merritt, A. 21
Moorcock, Michael 22
Norton, Andre 21 +1 = 2
Offutt, Andrew J. 20
Pratt, Fletcher 20
Saberhagen, Fred 18
St. Clair, Margaret 20
Tolkien, J. R. R. 22
Vance, Jack 19
Weinbaum, Stanley 18
Wellman, Manley Wade 20
Williamson, Jack 18
Zelazny, Roger 23

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I'm beginning to think Appendix N should be devided into two sections: authors to read for inspiration; authors cited as having inspired D&D but are now too dated to be readable.

 

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