That's the question posed by The Book Magazine on their website. They may be plastering the blog community with pleas for us to vote and publicize the poll; since they e-mailed me, I have to imagine they've also contacted the ten thousand or so book-bloggers with more readers than I do.
But polls are fun, and the message wasn't particularly spammy, so I went to vote. The pickings are slim from our area (only Rowling and Pratchett that I noticed), but the names they do have listed seem like good candidates.
After long thought, I finally cast my vote for: J.G. Ballard (who I had to write in). Anyone else voting in this?
2 comments:
We've been schooled. As pointed out to me, Doris Lessing is also a writer of science fiction.
Andrew,
If you are looking for people on that Book Magazine list who have written SF or Fantasy, you can add Ian McEwan (who had a story in Ted White's Fantastic, of all places), A. S. Byatt, Martin Amis, and Kazuo Ishiguro, at least.
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Rich Horton
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