I'll Be Damned!
 | I am:Ursula K. LeGuinPerhaps the most admired writing talent in the science fiction field. |
posted by Madeleine Robins at 3:49 PM
Saturday, May 14, 2005
About Me
- Name: Madeleine Robins
- Location: San Francisco
I'm the author of a bunch of books, including five Regency romances, a Marvel Comics superhero novel, The Stone War, a dark urban fantasy in which I blew up my home town, and Point of Honour and Petty Treason, the first two books in the adventures of Sarah Tolerance, Fallen Woman and Private Eye. I've also published a double-handful of SF and fantasy stories.
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- First Dance
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- My Child Knows Her Mother
- Mommy Brain
- Spa Day
- Damn
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- Guilt
2 Comments:
Those stupid quizzes are catnip, aren't they? Even when you know they are worthless, you take them.
I came out Le Guin as well, although my first response to every single question was, "I don't like any of the answers! Invalid implied alternative here! The very question is lame!"
The first time someone posted the test and I took it, I went back and jiggled a few answers (from the least inappropriate to the second least), and came out, I think, Chip Delany.
Maureen McHugh "is" Gregory Benford. Say what?
No kidding. I found that if I answered as close to honestly as I could, I came out as LeGuin, but if I jiggered one or two questions to the next best answer I came out as Alice Sheldon. So then, of course, you have to go in and start fooling with stuff, trying to get, say, Robert Heinlein or William Gibson, just to see what would do it. Closest I got was Hal Clement.
As someone commented elsewhere, a lot of the questions seemed aimed at discovering at-con behavior than looking at the work itself.
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