River ,'Objects In Space'
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."
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?
Kurt Vonnegut, Interstellar Detective?
Douglas Adams!
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.
alas, Ellison ain't dead yet.
I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to find some volunteers to fix that little snag.
Aww, I wish Douglas Adams was not dead.
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!
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.
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.
Two hundred years of space?