Just Can't Stand

[mrissa]

One of the worst nausea days I've had with the vertigo, and a great many small things happening, none of which I feel like talking about. Instead, you get a poll! Here's the deal: I will be able to see your answer. No one else will. Tell me the science fiction or fantasy author whose work you like the least. After a few days -- let's say, around noon on Monday -- I will make a list of the answers with the lj names removed. This can be someone whose single offering you found staggeringly bad, or someone other people love and you just can't stand, or someone whose influence you think is pervasively odious, or whatever -- but it should be their work, not their person, inasmuch as those things are separable. I'm not looking for, "You would not believe what he said to my sister when he was GoH at InsertConHere!"

[Poll #1200426]

I will be interested to see if my theories about categories of response are correct.

The comments section to this post and Monday's post will be unscreened, so if you want to say, "Oh, that Marissa Lingen, I know she's just got short stories out, but I hate every one of them," in the comments, go right ahead, but it will be public.

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I'm inclined to consider horror vs. not-horror as an independent axis from speculative vs. not-speculative. Which is to say, there is horror I would count as speculative, but not all horror is speculative. If there's a fantasy or science fiction element, then yes. If it's a book where really creepy horrific things with contemporary natural explanations happen and you are horrified by them, it's still horror but not SF horror or fantasy horror.

Clear as mud?

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

I am stealing this bit of horror-definition for myself.

Also, sorry for leaving four or five comments in a row. You cause interesting conversations.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You should never have to apologize for conversing here. That's what the comments are for.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

In that case, Laurel K. Hamilton.