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Piers Anthony is worse than every single author mentioned on this thread, put together.
Who's the worst Sci Fi/Fantasy author?
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Do you mean Out of The Silent Planet/That Hideous Strength etc trilogy?
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wobbly
should i be feeling bad that i've read 95% of the shit books menitoned on this?
This was published?
Gives me hope, that does.
TBH, of the two books which I'm nearly finished, one has three different concurrent stories, adn tbh one of the three is really bog standard sword and sorcery, BUT I think the way it intertwines with the other two (one about a bloke teaching in China, the other kind of hitch hikers guide style comedy scifi) and the huge battle in Victoria Park and around Hackney which it concludes with ought to make it better than stuff like that.
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
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wobbly
Nah................i own quite a few of them too !
glad i'm not the only one.
I picked up a few boxes of crappy fantasy a few years ago in a charity shop, they sold me thyem for something like 20 for the lot. there was enough i knew would be good, but the stuff that wasn't good was astoundingly bad.
Jerry pournelle is pretty shit. something about aliens kidnapping soldiers from a cia black op to go harvest drugs, some of larry niven's sutff isn't anywhere near good either. they wrote one good book each, the same book.
robert asprin, nuff said if you've ever read it.
L Ron Hubbard. 
Just for inventing scientology deserves to be roundly shot.
Just for inventing scientology deserves to be roundly shot.DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Battlefield Earth
Battlefield Earth
I keep wondering whether it's worth watching for a laugh and then remembering that everyone who has done it even on that basis has hated it
The Groke
hot hail/Paging Dr. Beat
David Eddings.
I loved his stuff when I was about 8 or 9.
Went back recently and realised just how shockingly bad it is.
His dialogue is particularly scrotum-shrinking and it does gall that it took me this long to realise that he has in fact written exactly the same story, with exactly the same characters some 3 or 4 times, spread across fuck knows how many volumes and tried to pass it off as a different "epic" each time.
Absolute bilge.
I loved his stuff when I was about 8 or 9.
Went back recently and realised just how shockingly bad it is.
His dialogue is particularly scrotum-shrinking and it does gall that it took me this long to realise that he has in fact written exactly the same story, with exactly the same characters some 3 or 4 times, spread across fuck knows how many volumes and tried to pass it off as a different "epic" each time.
Absolute bilge.
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
i kept waiting for the inteligeny parody to turn up
Yep! You have piss poor taste!
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
Have to disagree with ya there....
The Mote In Gods Eye is one of my all time favs...........
David Langford did a collection of parodies of various authors. I forget the title, but it was something ridiculous and overblown and long.
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mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
Like the sequel too..........
in fact i like a lot of their stuff so ner !
I have a collection that stretches back over 30 years so have a lot of stuff i read as a young teenager.............will never get rid though !
Azimov is one of the authors that got me into sci-fi so will always have a place in my affection !
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