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Mclovin5-0
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Posted: 2/7/2012 10:06:56 PM

THE IMAGE ABOVE IS A PAID ADVERTISEMENT
To continue their work, who would you choose?
America-first
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Posted: 2/7/2012 10:08:22 PM
Thomas Jefferson.
No single raindrop believes it is responsible for the flood.

AN EMPTY BARREL ALWAYS MAKES THE MOST NOISE.
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Posted: 2/7/2012 10:16:02 PM
Robert E. Howard

I wonder what Howard's take on the classic spy novel would have been like? Would Donald Hamilton have been able to withstand the competition?
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Posted: 2/7/2012 11:41:24 PM
I'm going to cheat, and pick an author that is still alive but has a terminal illness that has inhibited his writing career: Terry Pratchett.

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Posted: 2/8/2012 12:04:49 AM
Originally Posted By grendelbane:
Robert E. Howard

I wonder what Howard's take on the classic spy novel would have been like? Would Donald Hamilton have been able to withstand the competition?


This is who popped into my head the minute I read the thread title.
EvanWilliams
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Posted: 2/8/2012 12:13:07 PM
Sir Walter Scott
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Posted: 2/8/2012 1:30:50 PM
H Beam Piper.

Or...

Robert Jordan.
(I'd have loved to see how he finished off his WOT series. Seriously.)
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Posted: 2/10/2012 12:31:30 AM
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Posted: 2/10/2012 12:36:44 AM
Crazy neighbors - Filling the gap until the zombies arrive.
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Posted: 2/10/2012 9:44:35 PM
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Posted: 2/10/2012 10:47:06 PM
William Manchester. There are rumors someone out there is finishing the last book of his Churchill trilogy, but...
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Posted: 2/12/2012 3:21:28 AM
William Johnstone
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Posted: 2/12/2012 10:18:44 AM
VADM James B. Stockdale.
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Posted: 2/13/2012 5:13:33 PM
Originally Posted By mugsy:
Ernest Hemingway


Him or Hunter S. Thompson
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Posted: 2/13/2012 5:20:16 PM
Teddy Roosevelt and would have been really cool to go on that safari with him and his son.
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Posted: 2/13/2012 5:40:58 PM
Howard philip Lovecraft
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!!!
Cthulhu fhtagn!!!!
Cthulhu fhtagn!!!!
Cthulhu fhtagn!!!!

“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
followed by Robert E. Howard and poe
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Posted: 2/14/2012 8:43:15 AM
Kurt Vonnegut

"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."

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Posted: 2/14/2012 8:08:26 PM
Keith W. Nolan
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Posted: 2/15/2012 1:41:53 AM
Originally Posted By xxxAMISHxxx:
William Johnstone


I second that, I really like a lot of his books.


I would also bring back Stephen Hunter I know, I know he is not dead but he has killed or slowly killing what was and is one of the best series with Bob Lee Swager.
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Posted: 2/16/2012 7:33:05 AM
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Posted: 2/17/2012 12:30:53 PM
Isaac Asimov. Just one more book on R Daneel...
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Posted: 2/17/2012 12:33:38 PM
Originally Posted By Mak_380:

Robert Jordan.
(I'd have loved to see how he finished off his WOT series. Seriously.)


+1.

I'm re-reading them now getting ready for the last book.
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Posted: 2/19/2012 1:05:15 PM
Don Pendleton.
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Posted: 3/5/2012 6:14:55 PM
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Posted: 3/6/2012 9:43:08 AM
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