My personal Favorite is Alan Dean Foster.
My Favorite Villain is Securtity Chief Terl, Out of the Book Battlefield Earth by L.Ron Hubbard.
2006-09-04 12:04:24 · 14 answers · asked by Legion 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
too many favorites...Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Rod Serling, Frank Herbert, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Gordon R Dickson, Joan D Vinge, Zenna Henderson, Samuel delaney...and of course Octavia Butler.
favorite villains would have to be...The Mule from Asimov's Second Foundation ...and Doro from Octavia Butler's book 'MInd of My Mind'
2006-09-04 22:50:24 · answer #1 · answered by Zholla 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My favorite author is Orson Scott Card, although Douglas Adams runs a close second. I like more accessible sci-fi, rather than the more technical stuff.
My favorite villain - well, I'd really have to go along with most everyone else on the Baron Harkonen thing. He gave me the willies.
2006-09-04 20:59:20 · answer #2 · answered by swbiblio 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My two fav authors are Orson Scott Card & Sara Douglass.
As for a villain, I think StarDrifter (of the Wayfarer Redemption books) takes the cake . . . although technically not a "bad guy" all the bad stuff starts from something that he did, knowing that he shouldn't have . . . and yet, he keeps on doing stupid crap well into the second trilogy!
2006-09-04 21:22:52 · answer #3 · answered by Whedonist 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My all-time favorite author is Isaac Asimov, however my favorite villain (anti-hero) is Gulliver Foyle in the book 'The Stars, my Destination' written by Alfred Bester in 195?.
The book begins with:"170 days dying and not dead yet."
2006-09-04 20:03:40 · answer #4 · answered by PBarnfeather 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isaac Asimov is my all time favorite author.
My favorite villain is Baron Harkonnen in the novel Dune by Frank Herbert.
2006-09-04 19:11:17 · answer #5 · answered by brainstorm 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its hard to pick my absolute favorite, but Joe Haldeman probably squeaks a little ahead of my other favorites.
As for a villain, I was intriqued by the Bereserkers in Fred Saberhagen's books. He did so much with them.
2006-09-04 21:18:12 · answer #6 · answered by Trinfan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its gotta be Frank Herbert, with the legend that is Dune
The Baron Harkonnen, wow..now HE is a villain..hes a murderous, medievil Baron with lasers and a planet to rape...bad-*** of the year award methinks
2006-09-04 19:10:33 · answer #7 · answered by thomas p 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are a lot of scifi writers that I like: Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, C.J. Cherryh, Phillip K. Dick, etc. My favorite villan is probably the White Witch, from "The Chronicles of Narnia." (I think the "Chronicles of Narnia" is still scifi, since it takes place on another dimension.)
2006-09-04 19:07:47 · answer #8 · answered by poeticjustice 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anne mccaffrey;fav author
Sauron of Lord of the rings, fav. villain, I did enjoy reding Battlefield earth but the movie was a complete letdown.
2006-09-04 19:09:09 · answer #9 · answered by cheyenne 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Garth Nix, Kerigor
2006-09-05 00:24:30 · answer #10 · answered by Astarael 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋