What they ought to have been called

[cahn]

Perhaps y'all have seen these (and here and here, though I think the first is the best) before, but I hadn't. Hysterically funny especially if you, like me, grew up reading bad 80's SF/fantasy novels (Dragonlance! Xanth! Valdemar! ...hey, why are you running away? Wait, did I actually admit to reading those?)

I'll add
Katherine Kerr: People Make the Same Dumb Mistakes When Reincarnated
Patricia McKillip: Riddles in the Welsh Tradition Kinda Suck
Diane Duane: The Door Into Alternative Lifestyles
Rosemary Kirstein: Wouldn't It Be Cool If People Revered Their Scientists?
Susan Cooper: The Search for Plot Coupons (okay, that one was not original)

(and yes, I adore McKillip and Cooper, and have a certain fondness for the others; I mock because I love!)

Any other suggestions? Especially for 80's stuff? (Most of the really bad 80's stuff I read has completely escaped my memory...)

Comments

[ase.livejournal.com]

Rosemary Kirstein: Wouldn't It Be Cool If People Revered Their Scientists?

YES IT WOULD BE. And then I'd be some lay alcolyte, in addition to the rest of the awesome in my life. [/silly]

I'll come up with cooler comments when I sober up. (Ha.)

[charlie-ego.livejournal.com]

Ha!

The flip side of the coin, too, is, Wouldn't It Be Cool If All Scientists Were Selflessly Devoted to Scientific Ideals?

And yes, it would be very cool if both those were true. Which Kirstein trades on fairly aggressively, I think :)