cimorene

everyone is doing a gun-to-your-head thing invented by

julad, and i'd just like to say, therefore, that i don't think there is any writer i could survive entirely on. and if i were going to be stranded on a desert island with just one writer, i'd pick a pro one, not a fanfic one. fanfic is a small and temporary high, and it takes a lot more of it to do the same sort of thing you get out of a good novel. and again.

even if i could have any pro writer of my choice, i'm not certain how it would work. i might just pick one of my favorite writers so that i could have my favorite specific books of theirs among the twenty (not sure which, though --cherryh? delany? saberhagen? zelazny? bujold? van scyoc? jones? wrede? yolen? heyer? willis?)

(speaking of which, i haven't read anything of syndney j van scyoc's for a while, and she was never very well-known, but she writes the most brilliant fantasy and science fiction, a sort of dreamy fusion of ideas with overtones of melancholy and epic, without getting too long.)

i go through phases with fanfiction, too, so i don't know if i could pick four writers that i'd be happy to read at any given time.

the more i think about this, the more the thought of being on a desert island with minimal reading material distresses me. and THEN it starts to piss me off.

some of my favorite fanfic writers, though: jat sapphire and k'sal for star trek.

resonant8 for due south. also speranza and crysothemis. ladonna king and cori lannam in star wars.

billthepony in lord of the rings.

uhmidont, more often than not, in nsync. it's a very specific sort of taste, though. there are other writers i like a lot in nsync, but i'm getting so sick of the fandom that i probably wouldn't bring anything from it with me.

i think i'd rather read my favorite writers writing the worlds of their own creation, however, than fanfic i could come up with for them. i trust their imaginations and their taste, and i've already learned that i like what they come up with on their own quite well.