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Aug. 3rd, 2006
What's your cred?
Aug. 3rd, 2006 06:53 pmMichael Cassutt has a "Calculating Your Sci Fi Credentials" quiz in the current edition of Sci Fi Weekly. I scored a 50--first five questions were 10/10/10/10/10, then I fell off the map. I might be able to tackle the singularity definition, but it's like "lie/lay"--I can read that damned Strunk&White entry 50 times and the blasted difference still doesn't sink in.
35 to 65—You could be another Ursula K. Le Guin, Frank Herbert, Kim Stanley Robinson, Connie Willis or Vonda McIntyre. You are aware of science and technology, but given a choice, will try to emphasize character and drama. This sort of story used to be known as speculative fiction. If you are a television series, you might be the original Star Trek, X-Files or the current Battlestar Galactica.
Anyway. I write 'spec fic'. I am quite happy with that.
35 to 65—You could be another Ursula K. Le Guin, Frank Herbert, Kim Stanley Robinson, Connie Willis or Vonda McIntyre. You are aware of science and technology, but given a choice, will try to emphasize character and drama. This sort of story used to be known as speculative fiction. If you are a television series, you might be the original Star Trek, X-Files or the current Battlestar Galactica.
Anyway. I write 'spec fic'. I am quite happy with that.
What's your cred?
Aug. 3rd, 2006 06:53 pmMichael Cassutt has a "Calculating Your Sci Fi Credentials" quiz in the current edition of Sci Fi Weekly. I scored a 50--first five questions were 10/10/10/10/10, then I fell off the map. I might be able to tackle the singularity definition, but it's like "lie/lay"--I can read that damned Strunk&White entry 50 times and the blasted difference still doesn't sink in.
35 to 65—You could be another Ursula K. Le Guin, Frank Herbert, Kim Stanley Robinson, Connie Willis or Vonda McIntyre. You are aware of science and technology, but given a choice, will try to emphasize character and drama. This sort of story used to be known as speculative fiction. If you are a television series, you might be the original Star Trek, X-Files or the current Battlestar Galactica.
Anyway. I write 'spec fic'. I am quite happy with that.
35 to 65—You could be another Ursula K. Le Guin, Frank Herbert, Kim Stanley Robinson, Connie Willis or Vonda McIntyre. You are aware of science and technology, but given a choice, will try to emphasize character and drama. This sort of story used to be known as speculative fiction. If you are a television series, you might be the original Star Trek, X-Files or the current Battlestar Galactica.
Anyway. I write 'spec fic'. I am quite happy with that.