Today’s best search term to reach my blog was “most outrageous and imaginative scifi writer in the world”. Which of course leads me to ask the question, who IS most outrageous and imaginative scifi writer in the world? Outrageous and Imaginative. That’s a killer duo of adjectives to combine. I’m going to put my thinking cap on. Who would you suggest?
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Damien Walter 
Living? Probably Rudy Rucker. All time? Raphael Aloysius Lafferty, six-fingered hands down.
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I’ve been reading Lafferty recently. Agreed. I know Rucker’s non-fiction better than fiction. Transrealism still the cutting edge of SF I believe.
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I will stick with Steve Aylett.
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Steve Aylett was high on my list of suspects. Favourite books?
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Maybe Fain, Rebel at the End of Time, Bigot Hall, Slaughtermatic? Lint is good as a bio OF an outrageous and imaginative writer …
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I’d have to agree on Aylett. Warren Ellis has done some interesting scifi stuff within comics, but the sheer wildness of Aylett’s prose and imagination hit the outrageous button.
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As mentioned on The Twitters: Olaf Stapledon. Definitely a well a lot of others have drawn from, so pretty high up. Also: you can’t do much better than running a universe through and entire cycle.
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Kameron Hurley, out of new writers. In some ways, Lavie Tidhar. (for Osama alone, if nothing else)
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Maybe Michael Cisco? But you’d have to have a pretty broad definition of SF, I guess…
..(which I do..). :)
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That’s a second vote for Michael Cisco.
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Jordan Krall or Reza Negarestani.
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Kelly Link, Karen Joy Fowler, Nnedi Okorafor all came to mind for various reasons. For sheer impact, not sure why people don’t think of Ursula K. Le Guin or Stanislas Lem.
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Paulo Bagicalupi has to be up there.
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