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With names aready being dropped, here are some oldies: Clarke, Asimov, Stanislav Lem.
by nsajko 7y ago
With names aready being dropped, here are some oldies: Clarke, Asimov, Stanislav Lem.
- komali2 7y agoAh, you're right, Asimov definitely tops the list. He explored the fuck out of AI and then jumped straight into the question of whether human psychology is deterministic. Space travel, galaxy colonization, hell even telekinesis and other wild shit. I think he doesn't have the breadth of topic of Neal Stephenson but he's definitely prolific.
- jfengel 7y agoHis nonfiction work is even broader: he wrote books on history, the Bible, and Shakespeare, as well as every kind of science. Not always very well, mind you: my youthful adoration of his breadth has been replaced by am embarrassed coughing as I realize just how far out of his depth he often was. Still, who I am today owes a lot to him.
- MagnumOpus 7y agoAsimov’s breadth tops NS’s by far. He is famously the only author who has published works in every single category of the Dewey Decimal System, fiction and non-fiction. And his books feature another theme that NS never explored: coherent endings.