robert heinlein
arthur c. clarke
E.E. 'doc' smith
contemporary authors?
all that pseudo-scientific stuff they raise, and popularising/generalising all of those topics Alex (xelasnave
) has raised on IIS. bah!
give me space operas, big space battles and frightening aliens trying to suck out our eyeballs for soup any day!
actually, i quite like David Brin novels, too.
