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Mar. 10th, 2007 11:27 pmWhoah, dude. Aaron Allston has a livejournal!
I'm always somewhat surprised to find out that people whose work I admire might actually be real people. I'm not sure why. It's a pleasant sort of surprise, though.
(My ultimate literary guilty pleasure, for those of you not already aware of this, is Star Wars tie-in novels. I recognise that they are not necessarily the pinnacle of literary excellence, but, goshdarnit, they're fun, especially since the character shields have disappeared and major characters actually started being mortal again. Allston wrote my favourite ones, the Wraith Squadron books. To this day, my best friend and I have only to say "Yub yub, Lieutenant", or say "So it's like a blaster you have to hit things with? I have to have one" before we both collapse in utter hysterics on the floor. "Nice rear, Lieutenant" also works. Seriously, any novel which involves a prank which culminates in one of the main characters standing buck-naked and covered in some sort of animal food before his junior officers, with only a stuffed Ewok to shield his... ahem... dignity? Okay as far as I'm concerned.)
I've read a couple of his non-tie-in-books as well, and found them highly enjoyable. If you'd like, the Baen Free Library has one of them, Doc Sidhe available.
I'm always somewhat surprised to find out that people whose work I admire might actually be real people. I'm not sure why. It's a pleasant sort of surprise, though.
(My ultimate literary guilty pleasure, for those of you not already aware of this, is Star Wars tie-in novels. I recognise that they are not necessarily the pinnacle of literary excellence, but, goshdarnit, they're fun, especially since the character shields have disappeared and major characters actually started being mortal again. Allston wrote my favourite ones, the Wraith Squadron books. To this day, my best friend and I have only to say "Yub yub, Lieutenant", or say "So it's like a blaster you have to hit things with? I have to have one" before we both collapse in utter hysterics on the floor. "Nice rear, Lieutenant" also works. Seriously, any novel which involves a prank which culminates in one of the main characters standing buck-naked and covered in some sort of animal food before his junior officers, with only a stuffed Ewok to shield his... ahem... dignity? Okay as far as I'm concerned.)
I've read a couple of his non-tie-in-books as well, and found them highly enjoyable. If you'd like, the Baen Free Library has one of them, Doc Sidhe available.
