Unique interests
May. 16th, 2003 09:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiSo, I've got 150 LJ interests (and I've ranted before on how stupid the 150 cap is, so I won't repeat it here). Looking at my user info page, three of them are unique (all authors):
Kara Dalkey: Kara's actually my second-favorite Scribbly (behind Brust), and given her success in both genre fic (getting published in hardcover is something, at least), as well as her shift to YA lit, you'd think others would be fans of her (although part of this goes back to the 150-interest cap). Her two Sagamore books are that rarest of breeds -- genuinely funny "humorous" fantasy written by someone other than Pratchett or Holt. She's told some amazingly complex tales (Genpei comes to mind), and two of my favorite YA books -- Little Sister, and The Heavenward Path.
Stephen Dedman: Another writer who's been strongly influenced by Eastern mythology in his writings. He's written two urban fantasies (The Art of Arrow-Cutting, and Shadows Bite, and one very nifty Heinlein-esque body-switching, time-traveling, genre-confusing sci-fi book, Foreign Bodies. Why no one else lists him is a mystery to me.
and
Steven Piziks is the real name of Steven Harper (a unique interest on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shadesong's interest list). Under either name, he's talented sci-fi writer, but the books he wrote under his own name are the ones I've enjoyed the most, which is why I used the Piziks interest (he actually still publishes under that name, too, just to keep things nice and confusing -- at least Megan Lindholm had the grace to stop releasing new books when Robin Hobb was born).
So, what are your unique interests?
Kara Dalkey: Kara's actually my second-favorite Scribbly (behind Brust), and given her success in both genre fic (getting published in hardcover is something, at least), as well as her shift to YA lit, you'd think others would be fans of her (although part of this goes back to the 150-interest cap). Her two Sagamore books are that rarest of breeds -- genuinely funny "humorous" fantasy written by someone other than Pratchett or Holt. She's told some amazingly complex tales (Genpei comes to mind), and two of my favorite YA books -- Little Sister, and The Heavenward Path.
Stephen Dedman: Another writer who's been strongly influenced by Eastern mythology in his writings. He's written two urban fantasies (The Art of Arrow-Cutting, and Shadows Bite, and one very nifty Heinlein-esque body-switching, time-traveling, genre-confusing sci-fi book, Foreign Bodies. Why no one else lists him is a mystery to me.
and
Steven Piziks is the real name of Steven Harper (a unique interest on
shadesong's interest list). Under either name, he's talented sci-fi writer, but the books he wrote under his own name are the ones I've enjoyed the most, which is why I used the Piziks interest (he actually still publishes under that name, too, just to keep things nice and confusing -- at least Megan Lindholm had the grace to stop releasing new books when Robin Hobb was born).So, what are your unique interests?
