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Eponymous musical inventor?

Robert Moog	2 votes - 20 %
Ray Dolby	1 vote - 10 %
Adolphe Sax	1 vote - 10 %
Leon Theremin	4 votes - 40 %
John Philip Sousa	2 votes - 20 %

10 Total Votes

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(4.00 / 1) #1 Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 07:52:53 PM EST

VSR - View Source Required/Recommended.

Eg for the science fiction writers test.

I amd itn ecaptiaghle of drinking sthis d dar - Dr T

Indeed by Phage (4.00 / 1) #4 Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 08:15:39 PM EST

Mickey Spillane ?

It's like magic realism, but not shit. - Scrymarch.
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: Quite by motty (4.00 / 1) #5 Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 08:20:07 PM EST

Sadly, it doesn't report what Jerry Pournelle's response to being told he was Heinlein was.

I amd itn ecaptiaghle of drinking sthis d dar - Dr T
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Oh and... by motty

(2.00 / 0) #12 Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 09:44:20 PM EST

I'm Samuel R. Delaney.

When I tried to make it tell me I was Philip K. Dick it told me I was William Gibson.

I amd itn ecaptiaghle of drinking sthis d dar - Dr T
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Hi, I'm Arthur C Clarke by martingale (4.00 / 2) #2 Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 08:05:59 PM EST

Movin' to Sri Lanka, gonna eat me a lot of peaches
Movin' to Sri Lanka, gonna eat me a lot of peaches...

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Thank God by Phage (4.00 / 1) #3 Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 08:09:38 PM EST

Not Heinlein. Gibson.

It's like magic realism, but not shit. - Scrymarch.

Me: Alfred Betser by Dr H0ffm4n (2.00 / 0) #20 Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 10:54:22 PM EST

A pyrotechnic talent who put only a small portion of his energy into writing.

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He was a pyromaniac ? by Phage (2.00 / 0) #22 Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 10:57:35 PM EST

I read a few of his. Found them a bit preachy.

I'm out all this afternoon. I have an interview with $ConsultingFirm. There is apparently no limit to the depths I am willing to plumb.

It's like magic realism, but not shit. - Scrymarch.
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: $ConsultingFirm? by Dr H0ffm4n (2.00 / 0) #25 Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 11:03:21 PM EST

That really is low.
I too am likely to be out all afternoon. Hogshead style.
And I've never even heard of Bester

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I'm E.E. "Doc" Smith. by ti dave (2.00 / 0) #6 Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 09:02:42 PM EST

Actually, I expected that result.

I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do.
The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. --W.S. Burroughs

: Congrats: I love Evelyn Smith by bob6 (2.00 / 0) #13 Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 09:48:20 PM EST

I'm H. G. fucking Wells.

Then I retook the test choosing the answers as if I was the last bastard on earth, and the champion is... Jerry Pournelle.

Cheers.
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Hal Clement by spiralx (2.00 / 0) #7 Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 09:10:20 PM EST

Whoever he was.

: Golden age physicist/hard SF writer by R Mutt (2.00 / 0) #8 Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 09:19:12 PM EST

"Mission of Gravity" was his best known book.

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: Fuck, me too by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #30 Fri Feb 11, 2005 at 01:27:37 AM EST

I've read a few of his books (Mission of Gravity) and while they were good, they didn't inspire me to reread them like Asimov, Blish, Niven, Pournelle, Heinlein or Dick. What a nerdy choice.

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: Yay! by ucblockhead (2.00 / 0) #31 Fri Feb 11, 2005 at 03:09:05 AM EST

Me too!
A true engineer's writer!
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Who on earth is Octavia Butler? by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #9 Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 09:24:04 PM EST

And why couldn't I be JG Ballard. I wanted to be JG Ballard!

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It's political correctness gone mad!

Racist by R Mutt (2.00 / 0) #10 Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 09:33:31 PM EST

She's one of the most prominent black SF writers. Pretty good as well: her recent Parable series is very gritty, realistic near-future SF.

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: You learn something everyday ! by Phage (2.00 / 0) #11 Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 09:36:53 PM EST

I never knew she was black ! I loved the Xenogenesis series and Clays Ark.

It's like magic realism, but not shit. - Scrymarch.
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: Strange that I haven't heard of her by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #15 Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 09:55:05 PM EST

I watched a documentary about links between SF and music in black culture recently, she must have been on it. I was drunk when I watched it though.
Thanks Mr Mutt, another author for my Amazon wish list!
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It's political correctness gone mad!
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WIPO by Breaker (2.00 / 0) #14 Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 09:50:32 PM EST

I can't believe you missed Fender and Gibson.

I don't know my guitars by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #16 Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 09:57:00 PM EST

But are they actually inventors?

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It's political correctness gone mad!
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Les Paul pretty much invented by Herring

(2.00 / 0) #18 Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 09:59:13 PM EST

the electric guitar. Well, the concept of putting the pickups on a solid body rather than the front of an acoustic type thing.

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: That was Adolf Rickenbacker, wasn't it? [n/t] by IEFBR14 (2.00 / 0) #21 Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 10:55:45 PM EST

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And by Herring

(2.00 / 0) #17 Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 09:58:10 PM EST

Tim Panni.

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Hal Clement by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #19 Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 10:37:01 PM EST

maybe were I stoned I could have been PKD.

sf test by Merekat

(4.00 / 1) #23 Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 10:58:46 PM EST

Lem? Er...

: Now we know you're depressed... [nt] by R Mutt (2.00 / 0) #24 Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 11:00:12 PM EST

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I am Phillip Jose Farmer. by ObviousTroll (2.00 / 0) #26 Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 11:35:49 PM EST

That explains the thing I have for riverboats, I suppose.

I am Admiral Bob (Heinlein). by Canthros (2.00 / 0) #27 Fri Feb 11, 2005 at 12:22:00 AM EST

I guess I'm flattered?

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I'm ~~not~~ here, man.

i could have told you that (nt) by tps12 (4.00 / 1) #28 Fri Feb 11, 2005 at 12:35:02 AM EST

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Hooray! by Canthros (4.00 / 1) #29 Fri Feb 11, 2005 at 12:57:02 AM EST

I'm a ~~crypto~~fascist!

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I'm ~~not~~ here, man.

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: Yes, but... by ucblockhead (4.00 / 1) #32 Fri Feb 11, 2005 at 03:11:23 AM EST

at least you're a gentleman!
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Fuck y'all. by lm (2.00 / 0) #33 Fri Feb 11, 2005 at 03:24:18 AM EST

I'm Frank Herbert.

There is no more degenerate kind of state than that in which the richest are supposed to be the best.
Cicero, The Republic

: That's fitting, but Pournelle wouldn't by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #34 Fri Feb 11, 2005 at 04:44:07 AM EST

have surprised me, with his Orthodox leanings.

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Odd by OAB (2.00 / 0) #35 Fri Feb 11, 2005 at 11:18:14 AM EST

I got John Brunner, which might actually be the best fit. Hell, at least I didn't turn out to be Jerry Pournelle.

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