The Mind Creative DECEMBER 2014 | Page 17

The Mind Creative Douglas Adams is best known for his “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” series, which was ground breaking and unique in content because these works introduced humour in this genré. Over the years, this has become an international multi-media phenomenon. Orson Scott Card is the author of “The Enders Game” - one of the most popular science fiction series in history. This saga together with “Dune” remains one of the most popular series of books of all time. While William Gibson is considered to be the father of ‘cyberpunk’ science fiction, Card is the definitive and original voice of modern science fiction. Robert Heinlein remained in the shadow of Isaac Asimov but is considered as one of the most influential science fiction writers of the modern era. His works were popular but controversial possibly because of his focus on “hard” science fiction that concentrated on serious science. He won four Hugo Awards for his novels, and along with Asimov and Clarke is widely known as one of ‘The Big Three of Science Fiction.’ 17