Once more into the breach: The NYTimes considers the Transcending Genre question.
Well, if we followed the recipe...should be cake. A demon-violence-free-zone cake.
Lorne ,'Why We Fight'
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."
DavidS - Feb 03, 2008 10:10:57 am PST #5001 of 28343
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Susan W. - Feb 03, 2008 2:37:48 pm PST #5002 of 28343
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I've just discovered that there's a new mystery series starting featuring Charlotte Bronte as a sleuth. There's already a Jane Austen mystery series...so, I'm wondering if what I need to do if I really want to be published is find a dead author and throw a dead body in his/her path.
Hm, whom should I choose? Charles Dickens, maybe? Dorothy Sayers or Agatha Christie for the "Murder, She Wrote" meta of it all? Get out ahead of the curve and go for the relatively recently deceased Patrick O'Brian?
Polter-Cow - Feb 03, 2008 3:01:25 pm PST #5003 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Kurt Vonnegut, Interstellar Detective?
§ ita § - Feb 03, 2008 3:26:41 pm PST #5004 of 28343
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Douglas Adams!
DXMachina - Feb 03, 2008 3:31:58 pm PST #5005 of 28343
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
He could do it holistically.
I was thinking about Isaac Asimov sending out Harlan Ellison to investigate cases for him, a la Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin, but alas, Ellison ain't dead yet.
Anne W. - Feb 03, 2008 5:18:41 pm PST #5006 of 28343
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
alas, Ellison ain't dead yet.
I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to find some volunteers to fix that little snag.
Liese S. - Feb 03, 2008 5:32:42 pm PST #5007 of 28343
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Aww, I wish Douglas Adams was not dead.
JZ - Feb 04, 2008 7:56:42 am PST #5008 of 28343
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Hm, whom should I choose? Charles Dickens, maybe? Dorothy Sayers or Agatha Christie for the "Murder, She Wrote" meta of it all? Get out ahead of the curve and go for the relatively recently deceased Patrick O'Brian?
I vote Mary Shelley!
Gris - Feb 04, 2008 7:59:54 am PST #5009 of 28343
Hey. New board.
I vote Mary Shelley!
I think she would be unbearable as a character. I don't know why. She always struck me as a whiner, for no reason I can name. Maybe it's just projection: Frankenstein is NOT a book that held up to 8 readings in a year for me.
Consuela - Feb 04, 2008 7:12:19 pm PST #5010 of 28343
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
But at least her proto-feminist attitudes and agency would have historical justification.
And it's not like the Jane Austen of these mystery novels bears any great relationship to the actual Austen.
... I wonder why it is I don't think of those novels as RPF? Huh.