Riders of the Purple Wage

[PurpleYouko]

Poul Anderson is probably the most New Wave of all New Wave authors.

The only Poul anderson book that I have read was "Shield". I thought it was really good. I would have considered him to be Old school though. I first read this book in about 1973. It was in my dad's collection at the time and I would guess it was at least 10 years old then.

That was a darn good guess. I just googled it and found it was first printed in 1963  :D

Here is a link that tells you a bit about it

[PurpleYouko]

Truth is, Bear has almost no literary talent. He has good science in his books, I give him that. But the "fiction" part of "science fiction" is just not coming through...

We obviously have totally different tastes as you say. In all the Bear books that I have read, the characters seemed really vibrant.
I particularly liked "Forge of God" and "Anvil of Stars"

I checked out your wicki list of new wave authors. There are plenty there that I like.
Harry Harrison wrote some great future apocalypse stuff like "war with the robots"
I like Brian Aldiss (in fact I listed him in my previous post)
Ursula LeGuin is pretty good but has a rather unorthodox style.
I like pretty much every book written by Moorcock, especially the Elric series.
Robert Silverberg is also on the list.

[shvarz]

Nums....  :)  :D  :lol:  ;)  :P

Poland was a part of Soviet block (more correcly called Eastern bloc), but it was never a part of Soviet Union (which was a separate country).  Just like United Kingdom was a part of NATO bloc, but never a part of United States.

[Numsgil]

Hmm, I guess I know much less about the world outside my country than I thought I did.

Aww, cmon, UK is like little baby US.  Same with Canada.  *Waits for the inevitable flame war*