Kurt Vonnegut, Interstellar Detective?
These girls have the most beautiful dresses. And so do I -- how about that?
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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."
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!
§ 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.
P.M. Marc - Feb 04, 2008 7:42:26 pm PST #5011 of 28343
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Two hundred years of space?
Susan W. - Feb 04, 2008 8:21:31 pm PST #5012 of 28343
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
FWIW, I have several real people as characters in my alternate history, and I've never thought of it as writing RPF, though I do feel a certain need to respect their memory.
Not that that's stopping me from gleefully torturing them whenever the plot warrants. And I'm about to write my first sex scene with a real person. For now I'm discreetly fading to black, but it wouldn't surprise me if by the end I'm writing play-by-plays for him. It's not like there's anyone who can tell me if I got it wrong...