Asimov is awesome. Heinlein is good although harder to get into in my opinion first scifi book i ever read was citizen of the galaxy. I love Herbert. LOVE LOVE LOVE. #strongfeelings

Love, love, love CJ Cherryh. Stephenson routinely blows my mind. I run hot and cold on Gibson, and have little opinion on the others.

I’m so torn on Asimov–his novels, especially the Robots and Empire–they’re just so DRY. But I adore his short stories. The only Heinlein I ever really liked was The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.

I love Gibson and Herbert, didn’t really like Heinlein, all I remember from when I read Asimov was that I liked his writing but could only take it in small doses. Stephenson is next on my list of books to read.

You have to view any of the classics as historical documents, I think, because I find a lot of them full of really outdated attitudes. I like Heinlein the best of those three, but some of his stuff makes me cringe!

I live in Seattle, and I have this fantasy where I’m on a bus, or in a Starbucks, or something, reading my old worn copy of Snow Crash and then I see Neal Stephenson and I tell him that I’ve read every book he’s ever published and the first time I read Snow Crash I didn’t eat sleep or pee for 18 hours until I finished it. He gives me a hug or a high five or something, and then writes a super awesome note inside my book and signs it.

Ooh! I JUST started reading Cyteen, and I’m loving Cherryh’s style now that I’ve gotten through the incredibly-dry-prologue-that-took-far-too-long-to-read-despite-its-brevity…. But I’m really excited to devour this mammoth of a novel now.