Which science fiction writer are you?
Well, this is encouraging:
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I am:
In the 1970s she was perhaps the most memorable, and one of the most popular, short story writers. Her real life was as fantastic as her fiction. |
I suspect that a big factor in my getting this result was the fact that, for the question "Are you a total dork with the opposite sex?", the answer I picked was "I am the opposite sex." (What can I say? I like travesti.)
(Via PZ Myers, who’s also James Tiptree, Jr.)
Hmm, that makes three of us. Even when I change answers to certain questions, I am still Tiptree. You’re right about the opposite sex answer being key, though — change that, and I suddenly morph into Paul Linebarger.
Guess I better read some of her stuff. Any recommendations?
I haven’t read a lot of her work, just some of the stories collected in Her Smoke Rose Up Forever, but “The Women Men Don’t See” is kind of a classic. (Scifi.com has several of her stories in its archive, and Wikipedia lists a few more at the end of its Tiptree entry.)
I turned out to be Gregory Benford, whom the quiz site describes as a “literary stylist as well as a working scientist.” Did you check out the “Which Office Supply Are You? quiz yet? I’m a desk, without which, according to the quiz site, “the office wouldn’t be an office.”
btw, James Tiptree is hot