Excuses, Excuses

[mrissa]

I got an e-mail note this afternoon from the historian who wrote one of the books I read earlier this month. She was googling on her book and found my mention of it on my journal, and she wrote to express her surprise and very politely inquire, "What does a young writer of sci fi find in a work of history?"

And I thought, heh, ohhhhh, lady, do you not know anything about this job.

I mean, seriously: for what other profession in the world could reading anything, anything at all, be considered professional development? And yet I am hard pressed to come up with a book that absolutely positively could not relate to my work either now or someday in the future. Whenever I need an excuse, I have one readily available at all times now.

And an Inquisition microhistory is not at all the most obscure volume of history ever read by a young SF writer. Not even by this young SF writer. Possibly not even this month. Why? Because we're geeks, the lot of us, geeks and intellectual magpies.

And it's so much fun.

Comments

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Oh hey! I just noticed...these questions are by the woman who did the "Dealing with Dragons" books! I love those books!

My sister even wrote to her a few times. She rocks.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

If you like those, try Sorcery and Cecelia and Mairelon the Magician. They're even better, to my way of thinking.

I met Pat Wrede once or maybe it was twice, but I wouldn't say I know her. Some of the people who read this lj do, though. She does indeed seem nifty.