Furthermore, everybody who opposes Honor Harrington -- everybody -- is not just wrong but Eeeeeeevil.
Danger's my birthright.
Buffy ,'The Killer In Me'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Betsy HP - Mar 25, 2006 5:50:46 pm PST #261 of 28061
If I only had a brain...
Connie Neil - Mar 25, 2006 6:19:40 pm PST #262 of 28061
brillig
Forgotten Beasts of Eld is fabulous. I re-read it regularly. The Riddle-Master of Hed trilogy is also very good, though I had to re-read it a couple of times to really appreciate the ending.
DavidS - Mar 25, 2006 7:44:13 pm PST #263 of 28061
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Daybreak 2250, AD
I knew I'd had that wrong but was too freakin' lazy to look it up.
They're definitely telepathic, but they're still animal level intelligence.
Are there instances of a male writer with his series being taken/over ghost written by his fanbase? (I'm not talking about a licensed character situation.) Because it seems like a Queen Bee and Coterie dynamic. With LKH and Anne Rice it seems like super inflated self-importance with nothing but adoring fans being filtered in. With Marion Zimmer Bradley and Andre Norton it seemed like the Queen Bee and court. Were there other instances of female Sci-Fi/Fantasy writers having ghost written series? Pern seemed liked that same kind of fanbase. Tanith Lee (in retrospect) really reminds me of fan fiction - so much slash!
Beverly - Mar 25, 2006 8:49:26 pm PST #264 of 28061
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Daybreak 2020 (aka The Beastmaster)
Daybreak 2250 AD, as previously mentioned, but also aka Starman's Son.
Still, she wrote so damned many, it's hard to keep the titles straight, let alone which plots go with which titles, especially since many of both sound similar. I remember this one because it was the first scifi or fantasy I ever read.
Consuela - Mar 25, 2006 8:52:44 pm PST #265 of 28061
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Beastmaster is a different novel, yeah. Hosteen Storm and the spotted horse.
Emily - Mar 26, 2006 6:57:39 am PST #266 of 28061
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Tanith Lee (in retrospect) really reminds me of fan fiction - so much slash!
Oh, Tanith Lee. I have such issues with Tanith Lee, carefully marshalled and lined up ready to go. At the same time, fun!
Strix - Mar 26, 2006 7:21:36 am PST #267 of 28061
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Mercedes Lackey?
Nutty - Mar 26, 2006 7:26:15 am PST #268 of 28061
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Then The Forgotten Beasts of Eld. (Which I was re-reading a little bit in the last year and held up surprisingly well.)
I read that just last year! And maybe I'm depraved, but with only a little bit of spin, I can read that novel as a twit of the "I have a talking giraffe in my backyard" fantasy subgenre. The hoarders of said talking giraffes don't come out looking all that nice, if you'll recall.
(I have the Riddlemaster series awaiting for me on the TBR pile, although the only reason it's on top is that the big books have to go on the bottom.)
Atropa - Mar 26, 2006 9:10:42 am PST #269 of 28061
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oh, Tanith Lee. I have such issues with Tanith Lee, carefully marshalled and lined up ready to go. At the same time, fun!
Hugs the Blood Opera books close
I've haven't actually read a lot of Tanith Lee's fantasy. I will re-read the Blood Opera trilogy forever and ever, apparently.
Betsy HP - Mar 26, 2006 9:26:13 am PST #270 of 28061
If I only had a brain...
Tanith Lee has amazing prose style, and I will hear no (okay, I'll hear it, but crankily) criticism of her best work. She's prolific, so it isn't all her best work, but when she is on she is amazing. Also, homoerotic themes != fanfiction, not by a long shot.
Anne McCaffrey has explicitly passed on the her literary properties to her son. I stopped reading her years ago, so can't speak to the quality.
I am too sleepy to drag up examples, but there are several notorious (within the SF community) cases of Grand Old Men's later novels being written by somebody else. The difference with Anne McC, MZB, and Andre Norton is that they actually gave cover credit to their ghosts.