Entry tags:

humor, sciencefiction

SF authors as High School cliques
Stephen Granade's hilarious essay, Speculative Fiction Authors Considered As High School Students, is pretty much spot on:

Young Charlie Stross is the one with the interface glasses and all of that computer equipment, though his friend Ken Macleod runs a close second in terms of number of gadgets. The boy in the red cape and goggles is Cory Doctorow. He’s something of a Singularity student, though he uses more tag clouds than is usual. And Vernor Vinge is next to him. He could be sitting at the seniors’ table, but he stays at this one instead.

That’s the seniors’ table over there. They’re done with their exams. Many, though not all, of them are just marking time until they graduate. Generally they stay quiet, though you’ll have to watch Harlan Ellison. Mr. Ellison! I see you preparing to throw that food. We’ve had enough of that this year, thank you.

Read the whole thing! Nisi Shawl, Jay Lake, Ted Chiang, and Elizabeth Bear all get namechecks, but David Levine is unaccountably missing...