Which science fiction writer are you?

[51stcenturyfox]

Yes, I have stolen a meme from slaymesoftly

I am: Robert A. Heinlein Beginning with technological action stories and progressing to epics with religious overtones, this take-no-prisoners writer racked up some huge sales numbers.

Which science fiction writer are you?

Well, slap the dog and spit in the fire.

The first SF genre novel I read was Heinlein's Friday and it ruined me for many others. I was a young teen, so that's a long period of ruin.

Let's see: A kickass female protagonist, balkanised world, alternative lifestyles, condemnation of a person being shunned by society due to origin (Friday is an AP - an "Artificial Person") and corporate hegemony*. There are terror attacks/assassinations which realistically cause chaos and confusion in both the characters' and readers' noggins, terraforming and genre planets. Plus, real science -  and tech that still gives me a joy on to imagine: the Beanstalk (space elevator for the big fat win) and semi-ballistic travel.

Adventure + science geeking + I actually cared about Friday Jones + interesting (although in some ways dated and controversial) sociological bits?  And humor? Yes, please.


*Obligatory Torchwood tie-in: My fanon interpretation of the Time Agency asserts that it's actually the enforcement arm of an interstellar corporate monolith like Shipstone. 


Shipstone: Daniel Shipstone Estate, Inc.; Muriel Shipstone Memorial Research Laboratories; Shipstone Tempe, Gobi, Aden, Sahara, Africa, Death Valley, Karroo, Never-Never, Ell-Four, Ell-Five, Stationary, Tycho, Ares, DeepWater, Unlimited, and Ltd.; Sears-Montgomery, Inc.; Prometheus Foundation; Coca-Cola Holding Co.; Intraworld Transport Corp.; Jack and the Beanstalk, Pty.; Morgan Associates; Out-Systems Colonial Corporation; Billy Shipstone School for Handicapped Children; Wolf Creek Pass Nature Preserve; Año Nuevo Wild Life Refuge; and Shipstone Visual Arts Museum and School. In effect, Shipstone controlled the entire economy.


Ba-ding-dang.


 

Unrelated:

I am excited about Parks and Recreation. Because: Rashida Jones, Amy Poehler and Aziz Ansari. Comm: parksandrec 

apiphile  would love some panfandom kissing comment fic if you can smush some lips together.  Mmmmmmwah.

My newest pretteh women icons are by gamined  @ onetouchofmink    She's lovely and she's taking requests.

Comments

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

He always ends up being used, Krycek.

But yes. Seconded!

[cruentum.livejournal.com]

Hah glad you agree. Crossovering is such a fickle business, and oh very much feeling the X-Files here too at the moment. Had to go and grab some of my old Alex icons.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I LIKE THAT ONE.

I have no Krycek icons. :(

[cruentum.livejournal.com]

I love him in those eps. He is so so much like Ianto.