A Counterintuitive Result
Which science fiction writer are you?
Mickey Spillane
A tremendously successful writer of extreme over-the-top hard boiled detective novels, who occasionally dabbled in science fictional elements (badly).
(Found at It’s My Country, Too. I certainly don’t mind being likened to the ruthless commie-hater of “One Lonely Night”, but I never considered him an SF writer at all. Perhaps this quiz was done by someone with a *ugh* liberal definition of “science fictional elements”. Yes, there was the child genius in “The Twisted Thing”, and the (irrelevant to the plot) anti-gravity invention in “The Erection Set”, but real SF? Maybe they were thinking of the glowing McGuffin in the classic noir 1955 movie version of “Kiss Me Deadly.”)
February 3rd, 2007 at 4:09 pm
What Science Fiction Writer Are You?…
Via American Street, I found the quiz that let Avedon Carol find out she’d be Ursula K. LeGuin, one of my absolute favorite science fiction writers. Well, it turns out I’m more like Gregory Benford, an actual physicist who incorporates……
February 3rd, 2007 at 4:45 pm
February 3rd, 2007 at 9:58 pm
I seem to be Ursula LeGuin. I’m not sure what that means. In fact, I’m not sure what any of the results mean.