A meme, gacked from just about everybody.

[penmage]

Pick an interest from my interests page that either 1) you know nothing about but sounds intriguing, or 2) you know something about but can't fathom why yours truly would be interested in it, and request an explanation.

Edit: feel free to choose more than one. I'll happily explain any and all.

Comments

[arib.livejournal.com]

By "historical science fiction," do you mean science fiction that was written a long time ago, or science fiction that takes place in the past?

Oh, and why thunderstorms? (I'm fond of them too, just curious as to what you see in them.)

[penmage.livejournal.com]

By historical science fiction, I mostly mean time travel SF - SF that takes place in the past. Like Connie Willis's excellent time travel books (Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing of the Dog) and Kage Baker's Dr. Zeus books (In the Garden of Iden in particular.)

Books that combine history and science fiction? How could I not love them? ;)

As to thunderstorms, I love the storm. I love the rain. In high school, when it rained, I used to take an umbrella to school specifically so I could go for walks in the rain during lunch. Rainstorms are cozy - thunderstorms even more so. I love the power of the storm, the sheer might of it all. It takes my breath away. What I really love is a thunderstorm during the wee hours, when all the world's asleep, and you're writing by candlelight to the music of the storm. Or a sudden summer storm that catches you unawares and soaks you till you don't care that you're soaked, and you dance around in the massing puddles, reveling in the glory of the storm like a gleeful madwoman. Totally breathtaking.