Re: ~ Arthur C. Clarke, Science Fiction Author and Gay Man, Dies ~

On 2008-03-19 17:57:00 -0700, Howard Brazee <howard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:

> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:05:40 GMT, "Mike  Schilling"
> <mscottschilling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>>> Assuming one believes the Google "about" figure on hits,
>>> 
>>> Heinlein gets 638,000
>>> 
>>> Clarke 120,000
>>> 
>>> Asimov 2,720,000
>>> 
>>> Orwell 4,750,000
>>> 
>>> Rand  2,130,000
>> 
>> Jules Verne gets 3.7 million,  and Wells 2.3 million.   So the Big
Three
>> are, in order, Verne, Asimov, Wells (agreeing that Orwell and Rand
aren't
>> "really" SF writers.)
> 
> While "Mary Shelly" only gets 98,300 for "mary shelly" - but that's
> unfair, because I had to include her first name.

"Mary Shelley," though, gets 1,030,000.

"Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley" gets another 302,000, but I'm guessing 
there's a lot of overlap.

kdd