An Authors Dictionary, continued
Nov. 30th, 2004 08:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madbakerA few more popped into my head... (here's part I if you need a refresher. More suggestions welcome!)
Jack Chalker: To emasculate one character, change the sex of another, and turn all the other characters into alien bodies. Oh, and have computers run everything.
Terry Goodkind: To torture the main characters incessantly, only stopping the torment temporarily to harangue the reader with political screeds.
Mercedes Lackey: To drain any possibility of moral complexity or character development by having the heroes always doing good things for good reasons, and villains doing bad actions for evil motives.
Jack Chalker: To emasculate one character, change the sex of another, and turn all the other characters into alien bodies. Oh, and have computers run everything.
Terry Goodkind: To torture the main characters incessantly, only stopping the torment temporarily to harangue the reader with political screeds.
Mercedes Lackey: To drain any possibility of moral complexity or character development by having the heroes always doing good things for good reasons, and villains doing bad actions for evil motives.
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Date: 2004-11-30 09:00 am (UTC)