on books and genres.
Having had the wonderful oppurtunity to work via the internet for most of my career also means i’ve spent an ungodly amount of time socializing via the net, meeting new people, goading nublets on support forums and well, forming relationships with people on the other side of the globe.
One of those friends is a guy in Germany, Falk — no really, that’s his name — he’s an astute, alert, detail oriented person, which means he’s almost always anal about pretty much everything.
I remember that time when I was digging through kernel source for linux 2.6.18 and trying to nail down a bug, all the while being encouraged by Falk — for you non-germies out there it’s also Swedish for Hawk — with words such as “do you really know what you’re doing” “did zey cover zat at ze marketing Kurze” well, yes. its a spurr alright.
Or that time we were discussing a bleepin’ game and he went into details about WORLD BUILDING as in, writer, as in setting. not level-editor. me? i just wanted to know if the game was good.
By now you’re probably wondering why i’m writing this. Well, as it turns out, i have this thing for sci-fi books. they make my nipples hard.
But when I asked him for a few hints he pushed me in the direction of several titles of which i’ve ploughed through more than 20 books.
Now to me, Sci-fi implies hard-sci nerdery or like in the case of Games Workshop’s Warhammer universe “the rule of cool”, Horror implies something supernatural and Vampire-werewolf-old-myth-goes-tits-up implies something at the beginning of that line.
So to you Germans out there, look. I like sex, or well sometimes I don’t.. well yes I do.. Ok. But what i do not want to read, is sex-disguised-as-$BOOKGENRE.
