I met CJ years ago at a filk convention, shortly after it came out. Great person. Just don’t like her writing style. I tried a few of her books in other series. Just can’t read her writing.

Oh, I’ll read the latest Pratchett and Gaiman, but most of my money and time is spent on comics.

However, I am a Friend of Lulu, and an honorary Friend of Dorothy, so let me offer the following:
Caffeine, sugar, fat, and alcohol are the four basic food groups. (Perfect food: Irish Coffee) In emergencies: chocolate covered coffee beans (I’m spoiled… Jacques George here in The City). Otherwise: Diet Sunkist soda.

Forget about the husbands and pregnancy: let’s mainline some caffeine.

Yeah, I’d love to get into this discussion. Like the fact that Niven was a big influence on my SF stories and when he was one of my judges for the Writers of the Future thing it was like having Spielberg judge your film at Cannes for me. Likewise Anne McCaffery (Yeah, I got both that year, woo!) Of the four finalists, two were hard SF and two were science fantasy. I was one of the two hard SF entrants, the other was by a guy who wrote a very Heinleinesque “you’re in the Corps now” kind of story… and yet my hard SF-fu prevailed. Having Niven and Pournelle both say it was the best of the year is a thrill that never goes away.

The parallels alluded to between the Chanur books and the Kzin is basically “man versus catlike warrior race” and like that hasn’t been done into the ground before or since. Other than that, nothing to link them. Chanur are basically anthropoid cats. The Kzin aren’t cats. They’re only called cat-like because humans need to be able to compare things to other things, and they have the rough shape of a cat, therefore. So even then, entymologically speaking, the analogy fails.

I laugh now that I once submitted a story to MZB’s “Sword and Sorceress” anthology and it got returned due to the subject matter, believe it or not. Because the heroine has to save her male friend from the “fate worse than.” Apparently it’s okay to write about the heroine getting raped and abused, but not the male sidekick. I still laugh about that, “rejected due to content.” By MZB. Seriously.

I think if it wasn’t for Moebius I wouldn’t have bothered with sneaking Heavy Metal home where my dad wouldn’t find it–not because he would have been shocked at the nudity (and wondering why his daughter was buying this stuff and not his sons) but because it was that “science fiction crap” that he coudn’t understand his intelligent kid could want to waste her time on.

But what do I know, I’m just a girl, and therefore not interested in hard science fiction, only coffee and husbands and pregnancy. Which means apparently that of the above books mentioned I’m only fit to read Downbelow Station.

Which I hated btw. Hated hated hated. Not because of the content, but because Cherryh’s writing style pretty much serves as a “what not to do” for me. Her and Mercedes Lackey, her protege. The “never use one adverb where three will do” school of writing. I was angry because I could have enjoyed the book if someone had gone over it with a red pen and cut every other descriptive modifier, and I couldn’t understand how it won as prestigious a writing award as a Hugo. That’s like Titanic winning “Best Picture”… or god forbid, “Avatar.”

But who cares what I think? I’m only a girl. Since I ditched my husband and pregnancy is not an issue with me, I think I’ll go get some coffee.

/thoughts on yaoi tl;dr

I am not certain what that is supposed to mean, but be advised there are a lot of women on this website, and you are writing to one.

I have a lot of Moebius art books, and know he likes crystals already. That website is hard to navigate.

Here is the official Moebius website.

http://www.jeangiraudmoebius.fr/

An awesome Moebius image, with crystals, circa 1985.

http://www.illustrationartgallery.com/acatalog/info_MoebiusCrys.html