Robert Heinlein (for writing The Man Who Was Too Lazy to Fail) Charlie Stross (for being a Perl programmer) Vernor Vinge (computer scientist, who shows us TIMTOWTDI) Douglas Adams (The universe is the result of some (perl) obfuscation contest ;-) Stanislaw Lem for writing The Cyberiad Roger Zelazny for writing Jack of Shadows Larry Niven for a central premise in his Known Space universe, that aliens secretly bred humans for 'luckiness' Other
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