If I ever wrote any Science Fiction . . . .

[ellenkushner]

Normally of course, I never indulge - but I am so pleased with the result that I wish to Share the good news (and, anyway, look at that face! do we love that face?!):

I am: Samuel R. "Chip" Delany Few have had such broad commercial success with aggressively experimental prose techniques.

Which science fiction writer are you?

Comments

[casacorona.livejournal.com]

I do love that face. I wish -I'd- come up as Chip when I took that stupid quiz.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

I love *your* face, too! Nice photo, B.

[selki.livejournal.com]

Great picture. Alas, I could only get William Gibson and David Brin for mine, depending on how I changed a couple of answers. I looked at and like several other of his quizzes, though.

(reading friendsfriends today)

[nnaloh.livejournal.com]

Cool; this apparently makes us twins, or doppelgangers, or clones, or something, because I'm Chip, too!

I wonder who Chip turns out to be when he takes this test?

nalo

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

I wonder who Chip turns out to be when he takes this test?

Nalo, that is the question of the century.

So, like, I doubledogdareyou to write him and ask!

[j-bluestocking.livejournal.com]

It told me I was Greg Benford. Then I played with it to see where they thought James Tiptree was on the spectrum, and I came out Cordwainer Smith. And I kept coming out that way, again and again: "Good lord! They can't all be Cordwainer Smith!" For a second I thought I was making progress, because it switched to another writer, but then -- back to Cordwainer Smith again.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Yes, well, apparently all sensible people come out Greg Benford - Delia did, q.e.d. (Oh - she says she finally made it to Alice Sheldon - I mean, [she says, looking over my shoulder] James Tiptree - Are there any non-male [or at least not offcially male] sf writers in this guy's panoply? What do I have to do to be Ursula K. Le Guin - or Nalo Hopkinson?)

As for me: I stick. (Or, as the French would say: "J'y suis et j'y reste." [translated by some as "I'm Swiss and I'm spending the night."])

[casacorona.livejournal.com]

I came out Greg Benford too, which I found very disconcerting. Less so, I guess, if Delia was also Greg Benford.

Nalo, I do so hope you ask Chip to take the quiz and tell us his result. Do we know -anyone- who is a quiz result who has taken the quiz?

[calimac.livejournal.com]

I got to be Le Guin without even trying. Yes!

[fufaraw]

Me too!

[(Anonymous)]

I tried this when it showed up on someone else's site, and came up as James Tiptree/Alice Sheldon. My friend Jo is LeGuin; I was way jealous.

--elswhere.blogspot.com

[annnimeee.livejournal.com]

Neil Gaiman (http://neilgaiman.com/journal/journal.asp) said that he got Chip too!

[stardustgirl.livejournal.com]

That's perfect because they're evil twins. I keep getting confused as to which one is evil..... ;-)

I'm an unpublished sf writer it seems. The website gave me a rejection slip:

Sorry, folks...
Getting thousands and thousands of hits is gratifying, but you've used up all of my allotted bandwidth, so to avoid any more nasty charges for overuse I have to take this page down until the end of the month.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Well, Neil is my long lost twin brother. (There are photos to prove this.)

[stardustgirl.livejournal.com]

*looks at posts*

"looks at post times"

Woah. I thought I felt someone on my wavelength. :-)

[ogre-san.livejournal.com]

I come out as Alice Sheldon every time. I have no problem with this. :)

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Well, who could?

[readwrite.livejournal.com]

I, too, am Chip. "I am you and you are me and we are all together..."

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

. . . I'm flyin'!

[casacorona.livejournal.com]

I saw elsewhere a report that Greg Benford took the quiz, and came out as Arthur C. Clarke. I find that unreasonably amusing.

[nnaloh.livejournal.com]

I suspect that the reason the site's gotten more hits than it can take is because Neil blogged about it. So I can't ask Chip now. *Phew.* I just might do it once the site's back up, though. I took it a few months ago, and I seem to remember alternating between being Delany and being Tiptree. Which pleased me no end.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

I seem to remember alternating between being Delany and being Tiptree.

Some girls have all the luck . . . .

So I can't ask Chip now. *Phew.* I just might do it once the site's back up,

Debt of Honor, nn. - I did Doubledog Dare you, after all. I look forward to learning his response in June when the page goes back up. (Anent stardustgirl's confusion above - And would Neil say that? Of course not. He is much too . . . nice.)

Email Surrealism

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Plaintively:

Doesn't anyone like my Victorian Dada Spam?

(See my previous post)

Re: Email Surrealism

[(Anonymous)]

"So, you didn't like the other shirt? That's all right, I don't mind, I'll just wait out here on the dinosaur..."

It's lovely spam, dear. I just didn't recognize any of it, being 20th Century girl and all.

--els

Re: Email Surrealism

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Strangely, it was not in the water that they met. Hook rose to the

coupled with

exclaimed, with frightful sarcasm; of course I did nothing.

means nothing to you?

I very much beg leave to doubt that. (Sniff!) And you a children's librarian, and all.

You must go back and make the acquaintance of Trot's Aunt's friend Mr. Dick, as well, apparently.

Harumph.