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Who is/was the best non sci-fi/fantasy American writer since 1950?

>> No.1165095

Pynchon.

>> No.1165094
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David Foster WalUUUUURGJGHGHHGHGHGHGHH...

>> No.1165097

Stephen King.

>> No.1165098

Neal Stephenson
Nabokov
Steve King

>> No.1165099

>>1165095
I don't know him very well; could you explain why he deserves the title?

>> No.1165101

Philip K. Dick, Fritz Leiber, Isaac Asimov, Arhtur C. Clark...

>> No.1165102

>>1165101
>Sci fi

>> No.1165116

Gore Vidal

>> No.1165123

hunter s. thompson, vonnegut, tom robbins

>> No.1165143

Asimov, no doubt.

>> No.1165144

>>1165143
> non sci-fi/fantasy
> Asimov
wut

>> No.1165146

>>1165144
>implying asimov only wrote sci-fi

oh you

but yeah, i misread

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H. G. Wells.

>> No.1165171

Greg Bear and David Brinn - Seriously guys, read Eon & Earth - they will blow your minds!

>> No.1165189

William Faulkner.

I believe he's the best American writer of the 20th century.

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>non sci-fi/fantasy
redundancy much?

>> No.1165221

Why care about non-specfic authors? That's the only genre that matters.