John just sent me a link to this quiz:
Which science fiction writer are you?
It was an enjoyable quiz, with a number of questions that made me laugh. But then my answer:
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I am:
A quiet and underrated master of “hard science” fiction who, among other things, foresaw integrated circuits back in the 1940s. |
Don’t you hate it when you get results on these things that you find disappointing? I mean, I appreciate the underrated, and also the evidence of great foresight. But why not somebody cool? I mean, John got Ursula LeGuin as a result. That is so cool. It’s the sort of thing that makes me want to go back and change my answers. (Now what does that say about me?)
Okay. Here’s an update. My brother-in-law, who is a dyed-in-the-wool Republican with books on his shelf at home by Evil Bitch from Hell that Anne Coulter and Scary Dork of an Asshole Sean Hannity as well as other “authors,” just took the quiz and got the same frickin’ author as me.
What did I do wrong?
collecting tokens 
Not just Ursula Leguin. Ursula K. Leguin.
i’m someone named gregory benford, “A master literary stylist who is also a working scientist.” apparently when he took the quiz, it told him he was arthur c. clarke.
jwbates-
Yeah, rub it in, why don’t you.
jenny-
That’s great. That must be confusing for the guy, not to mention for his publisher.
Hmmm, I got Arthur C. Clarke (whose name I recognize — unlike Gregory Benford). Wonder how many different answers the quiz has… ;b