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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.55
Posted on Thursday, August 05, 2010 - 05:56 pm:   

The near future, cameron and co have teamed up with Obama and whoever's in charge in Canada and decided that from now you're only allowed to read books by ONE author to save on trees being cut down (and the energy cost of downloaded books to those newfangled digital things).

All your other books will be destroyed.

Which author are you going to keep?
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.23.27.152
Posted on Thursday, August 05, 2010 - 06:02 pm:   

Shakespeare, of course. Duh!

Or maybe Alan Titchmarsh.
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Frank (Frank)
Username: Frank

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 212.49.212.18
Posted on Thursday, August 05, 2010 - 06:08 pm:   

Dan Brown, because all his books are exactly the same. That's my snobbery factor for the day realised.
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Ian Alexander Martin (Iam)
Username: Iam

Registered: 10-2009
Posted From: 64.180.64.74
Posted on Thursday, August 05, 2010 - 07:25 pm:   

Canada is lorded over by Conservative Prime Minister Stephen "I Get My Policy Ideas by Duplicating George W. Bush's" Harper, QC.

Jasper Fforde's, due to the fact he puts so many other author's work in them as references.

Possibly Pratchett's instead, due to the same thing, plus there's so bloody many of them.
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Stephen Theaker (Stephen_theaker)
Username: Stephen_theaker

Registered: 12-2009
Posted From: 62.30.117.235
Posted on Thursday, August 05, 2010 - 09:12 pm:   

If I could only keep books that I already own, I'd keep my Brian Aldiss books - I've got 29 of his books that I haven't read yet, and lots more that I have.

If you could pick the complete works of any author, probably Stephen King, because he's written lots and lots of books, I've haven't read all that many of them, and they're really long. I'd ration myself to a page a day.
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 82.38.75.85
Posted on Thursday, August 05, 2010 - 09:28 pm:   

That's an easy one .. Ramsey Campbell, obviously.
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Hubert (Hubert)
Username: Hubert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 78.21.233.51
Posted on Thursday, August 05, 2010 - 10:20 pm:   

As a matter of course.
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Joel (Joel)
Username: Joel

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 91.110.223.88
Posted on Friday, August 06, 2010 - 12:55 am:   

Fritz Leiber. That way I get to keep a hardcore of great supernatural horror, fantasy and SF.
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 82.17.252.126
Posted on Friday, August 06, 2010 - 12:57 am:   

Tough choice between Ramsey Campbell & Robert Heinlein: my two favourite genre authors and, thankfully, two of the most prolific, who somehow manage to keep the quality of their writing and storytelling consistently high.
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Simon Bestwick (Simon_b)
Username: Simon_b

Registered: 10-2008
Posted From: 86.24.209.217
Posted on Friday, August 06, 2010 - 08:59 am:   

I'd hide my book collection and join the Resistance. La Lotta Continua!
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.55
Posted on Friday, August 06, 2010 - 11:11 am:   

Your book collection would be harder to hide than mine...

I'm afraid Mr bestwick is doomed to a life of hiding in the shadows and ducking flamethrowers.

Personally I'm trying to choose between King, Bradbury or Pratchett or maybe Auster...

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