11-19-2009, 11:19 PM | #1 |
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Science Fiction One Hit Wonders
The music world is full of one hit wonders. Can you think of any authors that had that sci-fi one hit wonder novel?
My entry is Contact by Carl Sagan |
11-19-2009, 11:34 PM | #2 |
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The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell I hated the sequel, and her work since then has been more literary fiction than sci-fi, and imho not as compelling.
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11-20-2009, 07:27 AM | #3 |
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David Palmer, Emergence. He's written a couple of other books, but they were mediocre.
John Myers Myers, Silverlock. I actually have a copy of The Moon's Fire-Eating Daughter. I have never been able to read more than a few pages. (Edited to add: Oops, that's fantasy, sorry) Last edited by wayrad; 11-20-2009 at 07:30 AM. |
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Pierre Boulle 'Planet of the Apes'
Paul Theroux 'O-Zone' Aldous Huxley 'Brave New World' George Orwell '1984' |
11-20-2009, 08:53 AM | #5 |
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Ok, I'm gonna go out on a limb here...
Frank Herbert - Dune The rest he did is crap IMHO. (Time to go put on my asbestos-undies I asume) |
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Richard Kadrey, "Metrophage"
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11-20-2009, 12:05 PM | #8 |
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Flowers For Algernon. Daniel Keyes.
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11-20-2009, 01:12 PM | #9 |
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[QUOTE=dwanthny;662881]Can you think of any authors that had that sci-fi one hit wonder novel?
How about a one-hit wonder SF short story? The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin He wrote some SF novels and quite a few short stories, but nothing to match this. |
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
Of course several of these writers mentioned aren't one-hit wonders as authors but only as sci-fi writers. If the definition of "hit" is "bestseller", which is the common usage, then the Dune books after the original novel were hits. |
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11-20-2009, 02:51 PM | #12 |
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Stella Gibbons 'Cold Comfort Farm'
(Yep, it's SF. ) |
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http://www.ansible.co.uk/sfx/sfx144.html "But in a quiet way, Cold Comfort Farm is SF. It's set after the grim "Anglo-Nicaraguan Wars of '46". There's internal air mail in Britain, with the air-postman dropping packets of letters into your back garden. And there are videophones, with the oddity that public call-boxes are fitted with cameras but not displays. When the heroine calls her boy-friend from a box, he can study her face but she can't see his." |
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Pat Frank for Alas, Babylon.
I know it's not his only book, but it's really his only SF hit. |
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