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Post by Frank Creed on Apr 23, 2008 21:18:45 GMT -5
We've discussed this in LGG mail a bit, but lets post our nominations publicly.
Genre Founders:
Lewis--sci-fi
MacDonald--fantasy
Peretti--spiritual thriller
Sci-Fi
Lawhead
Fantasy:
Paul
Hancock
Davis
Carole McDonnell
Spiritual Thrillers:
T.L. Hines
Ted Dekker
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Post by Caprice on Apr 23, 2008 22:42:19 GMT -5
I know CS Lewis wrote sci-fi too, but I gotta nominate him and JRR Tolkien for fantasy in the founder category.
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Post by Frank Creed on Apr 24, 2008 10:14:58 GMT -5
Good discussion point. I believe Lewis and Tolkien were both influenced my MacDonald who beat them by Decades. Should we consider them founders?
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Post by cathikin on May 14, 2008 2:36:04 GMT -5
absolutely.
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Post by debkinnard on May 14, 2008 9:05:59 GMT -5
What about spec-fic? such as time-travel, topics that are a little more on the "soft" sf side? Who would you consider a founder in that area?
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Post by Frank Creed on May 14, 2008 19:55:00 GMT -5
Have a peek at wherethemapends.com and click on the booklist on the left side of the page. The authors there are broken down into genres in an unsusal classification. I'm not sure who was first to do Chrisstian or Biblical time travel. Ingermanson?
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Post by cyn on Jun 15, 2008 10:39:21 GMT -5
Is Stephen Lawhead considered science fiction or fantasy? Or, is it some kind of mix?
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Post by gracebridges on Jun 15, 2008 14:52:09 GMT -5
Lawhead wrote just three SF books back in the eighties, but of those, the two-book Empyrion epic is well deserving of this title. After that, he pretty much did fantasy/historical and continues to do so.
In the sci-fi nominations, may I submit:
Kathy Tyers
Kathryn Mackel
Zenna Henderson
there's probably more, but I can't place them right now...
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