I'm a programmer from the San Francisco Bay Area. Although I'm not directly involved in writing or similar activities, my parents were hard-core science fiction fans, and I grew up knowing a lot of fairly popular writers. Also, [[Creator/MelisaMichaels my aunt]] has had several SF and Fantasy novels published.

In progress: Sandbox.OpenTTD

[[folder:Tropes and Indexes I've Launched]]
* EyeRemember
* HardboiledDetective
* TrappedByGamblingDebts (up for grabs)
* ThePratfall
* FloweryElizabethanEnglish (for Repair Shop)
* SettlingTheFrontier (up for grabs)
* ThemedStockBoardGame (for Repair Shop)
* MagicalSeventhSon
* UsefulNotes/DamonKnightMemorialGrandMasterAward (index)
* BizarreAlienSexes (up for grabs)
* ExoticExtendedMarriage
* LivingGasbag
* BoldExplorer
* AudioPlay
* TheCaseOf
* PlanetSpaceship (up for grabs)
* NewWaveScienceFiction
* All of the "[=Literature of the XXXXs=]" pages ''except'' LiteratureOfThe1990s, which already existed all by itself for some reason... (We also had TurnOfTheMillennium.{{Literature}}, which is now a redirect.)
* HorrorStoryCreatorIndex
* EcoTerrorist
* UsefulNotes/JohnWCampbellAwardForBestNewWriter (split off from UsefulNotes/HugoAward)
* UsefulNotes/BramStokerAward
* GamblingBrawl
* FakeFaithHealer
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[[folder:Work pages]]
Works marked with an asterisk are simply those where I noticed there were plenty of examples on trope pages, but no work page, so, since I was broadly familiar with the work, I made a page and cross-wicked. These may lack some of the depth of the pages I created simply because I wanted to make a page for that work.

# ''Literature/PlanetOfAdventure''*
# ''Literature/{{Lyonesse}}''*
# ''Literature/TheDrawingOfTheDark''
# "Literature/TrueNames"
# ''Literature/EightWorlds''* (aka ''Literature/TheOphiuchiHotline'', ''Literature/SteelBeach'', and ''Literature/TheGoldenGlobe'')
# ''Literature/SchildsLadder''* (work on this one has been hampered by the fact that my copy seems to have disappeared.)
# ''Literature/CreaturesOfLightAndDarkness''
# ''Literature/TheForgottenBeastsOfEld''
# ''Literature/CourtshipRite''
# ''Literature/MaridAudran'' (aka ''Literature/WhenGravityFails'' and ''Literature/{{Budayeen}}'')
# ''Literature/RainbowsEnd''
# ''Literature/PriscillaHutchins'' (aka ''Literature/TheAcademyNovels'' and ''Literature/TheEnginesOfGod'')
# "AudioPlay/TheFurtherAdventuresOfNickDanger"* (my first non-literature addition)
# ''AudioPlay/IThinkWereAllBozosOnThisBus''
# ''Literature/JWWellsAndCo''*
# ''Literature/FallingSideways''*
# ''Literature/TheUnhandsomePrince''
# ''Literature/ExpectingSomeoneTaller''
# ''Literature/HeroicsForBeginners''*
# ''Literature/MajipoorSeries''*
# ''Literature/CitiesInFlight''*
# ''Literature/TheGreenwichTrilogy'' (aka ''Literature/TheButterflyKid'' and ''Literature/TheUnicornGirl'' -- didn't bother adding a redirect for ''The Probability Pad'', since that's just too obscure)
# ''Literature/FlyingDutch''*
# ''Music/BlowsAgainstTheEmpire''
# ''Literature/TheBellAtSealeyHead''*
# ''Literature/SaturnsChildren''*
# ''Literature/Babel17''
# ''Literature/EmpireStar''
# ''Literature/DrakeMaijstral'' (''Literature/TheCrownJewels'', ''Literature/HouseOfShards'', ''Literature/RockOfAges'')
# ''Literature/TheStarchildTrilogy'' (''Literature/TheReefsOfSpace'', ''Literature/{{Starchild}}'', ''Literature/RogueStar'')
# Music/TheRadiatorsUS
# ''Literature/ThePrometheanAge''*
# ''Literature/MaureenBirnbaumBarbarianSwordsperson''
# ''Literature/SonjaBlue''* (inc. ''Literature/SunglassesAfterDark'' and ''Literature/ADozenBlackRoses'')
# ''Literature/TheAtrocityArchive''*
# ''Literature/TheJenniferMorgue''*
# ''Literature/TheLastDaysOfNewParis''
# ''Literature/MidnightRobber''
# ''Literature/LafayetteOLeary'' (''Literature/TheTimeBender'', ''Literature/TheWorldShuffler'', ''Literature/TheShapeChanger'')
# Music/SamanthaFish
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[[folder:Creator pages]]
# Creator/MichaelChabon
# Creator/MichaelKurland
# Creator/JackMcDevitt
# Creator/NormanSpinrad
# Creator/MelisaMichaels (aka Creator/MelisaCMichaels)
# Creator/NancyKress
# Creator/JonathanLethem
# Creator/WalterJonWilliams
# Creator/EricFrankRussell
# Creator/JackWilliamson
# Creator/AllenSteele
# Creator/HalClement
# Creator/JohnMoore
# Creator/DamonKnight
# Creator/JoeHaldeman
# Creator/TheodoreSturgeon
# Creator/GregBear
# Creator/BruceSterling
# Creator/SamuelRDelany
# Creator/JohnDicksonCarr (aka Creator/CarterDickson)
# Creator/OlafStapledon
# Creator/BrianWAldiss
# Creator/JamesBlish
# Creator/JaneLindskold
# Creator/FrankHerbert
# Creator/EmmaBull
# Creator/GeorgeAlecEffinger
# Creator/MikeResnick
# Creator/MaryStewart
# Creator/ShirleyJackson
# Creator/ChristopherPriestNovelist
# Creator/MichaelSwanwick
# Creator/SPSomtow (aka Creator/SomtowSucharitkul)
# Creator/LinneaSinclair
# Creator/FrankBelknapLong
# Creator/GeekAndSundry
# Creator/AnthonyBoucher
# Creator/AlgisBudrys
# Creator/JerryPournelle
# Creator/JamesEGunn
# Creator/KimStanleyRobinson
# Creator/VondaNMcIntyre
# Creator/MauriceSendak
# Creator/AlexeiPanshin
# Creator/RobertLForward
# Creator/RachelCaine
# Creator/PearlSBuck
# Creator/CharlesSheffield
# Creator/AvalonHill
# Creator/EMForster
# Creator/MelissaScott
# Creator/LauraResnick
# Creator/ElizabethBear
# Creator/KWJeter
# Creator/RudyRucker
# Creator/ABertramChandler
# Creator/MackReynolds
# Creator/NancyACollins
# Creator/OrhanPamuk
# Creator/HollyLisle
# Creator/ThomasMDisch
# Creator/PeterStraub
# Creator/NevilShute
# Creator/RexStout
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[[folder:Other Stuff]]
* Turned ''ComicBook/ReidFlemingWorldsToughestMilkman'' into a page instead of a stub.
* Wrote a description for UsefulNotes.FermiParadox when it was brought to TRS as a stub.
* Wrote the non-self-describing version of Literature.FinnegansWake (in [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1297207147068340100&page=3#57 this]] TRS thread.)
* Rewrote/transplanted BizarreAlienBiology as a trope+index at TRS.
* Rewrote/transplanted BoyMeetsGhoul as a trope about undead at TRS.
* Rewrote and added detail to ''Literature/{{Retief}}''.
* Wrote a description for ''Literature/TheRoadToMars'', which only had one sentence when I found it.
* Entered the winning name, TrueCompanions, into one of the biggest crowners this site has ever seen.
* Rewrote the description of {{Pastiche}} from scratch when the previous, entirely-inaccurate, version was brought to TRS.
* Wrote the description and name which finally managed to get AmericaIsStillAColony launched after the YKTTW discussion had been stalled for ''years''.
* Provided an actual description for the Creator/CatherineAsaro page.
* Sorted out 21st century authors from 20th on {{Authors}}, and made the subpages AuthorsOfThe20thCentury and AuthorsOfThe21stCentury.
* Responsible for many other winning names at YKTTW and TRS; I've lost track of them all.
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[[folder:Tropes that apply to me (more or less)]]
* AlwaysMale: (so far).
* HippieParents: more or less. The well-educated college graduate flavor.
* MathematiciansAnswer: as a programmer, I tend to overuse this.
* MyNaymeIs based on the label of a present my mom gave me one Xmas.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: I've been using "Xtifr" ("X" for short) for so long now--decades--that many people don't seem to realize I have another name--or, more precisely, that it has a more conventional spelling.
* SophisticatedAsHell: My mother was an English major, writer and editor, raised by a railroad yard worker, and fascinated by science. She had a distinct impact on my goddamn vocabulary.
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[[folder:Pages I'm thinking of adding]]
!!! Hugo/Nebula winners I own
* ''Literature/ForeverPeace'' - both
* ''Literature/RiteOfPassage'' - nebula
* ''Literature/DownbelowStation'' - hugo

!!! Misc (favorites and notable works)
* ''Literature/GlorySeason'' - hugo-nominated novel by Creator/DavidBrin
* Creator/WilMcCarthy - ''The Queendom of Sol'', ''Bloom'', etc.
* ''Literature/TheQueendomOfSol'' - award-winning series by above
* ''Literature/TheSpaceMerchants'' - classic SF novel by Creator/FrederikPohl and C.M. Kornbluth.
* ''Literature/GatherDarkness'' - an old favorite by Creator/FritzLeiber
* ''Literature/TheFallOfTheTowers'' - SF trilogy by Creator/SamuelRDelany
* Creator/NinaKirikiHoffman - award winning fantasy author
* ''Literature/JackOfKinrowan'' - fantasy duology by Creator/CharlesDeLint
* ''Literature/TroubleAndHerFriends'' -- {{cyberpunk}} novel by Creator/MelissaScott

!! Searches suggest these deserve a page:
* Creator/JoelRosenberg (campbell award nominee)
* Creator/CSFriedman (ditto)
* Creator/DeliaSherman (ditto)
* Creator/JuliaEcklar (campbell ''winner'')
* Creator/MichelleSagara, aka Michelle West (c. nominee)
* Creator/JeffNoon (ditto)
* Creator/SharonShinn (c. nom.)
* Creator/MaryDoriaRussell (ditto)
* Creator/KageBaker (ditto)
* Creator/NaomiNovik (c winner)
* Creator/ScottLynch (c. nom)
* Creator/JoeAbercrombie (c. nom)
* Creator/GailCarriger (ditto)
* Creator/ChuckWendig (ditto)

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[[folder:Notes]]
* Creator/DanielPinkwater: needs re-org '''bad!'''
* Literature/{{Chalion}}: redirects
* Literature/TheSpaceOdysseySeries: wicks (redirects?)
* Literature/SprawlTrilogy: wicks
* Literature/IslandsInTheNet: crosswick
* Literature/BoneDance: crosswick
* Literature/RemnantPopulation: crosswick
* Literature/TheChronoliths: crosswick
* Literature/TheEschatonSeries: wicks (redirects?)
* Literature/{{Newsflesh}}: wicks
* Literature/HarrisonBergeron: wicks
* Literature/JenniferGovernment: wicks
* Literature/MachineMan: wicks
* Literature/ThisPerfectDay: wicks
* Literature/DarknessVisible: wicks
* Literature/LonelyWerewolfGirl: wicks
* Literature/BookOfSwords: wicks 'n' such
* Literature/SolomonKane: once the wicks are finished, Main/ should be turned into a disambiguation.
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[[folder:Useful Links]]
* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pagelist_having_pagetype_in_namespace.php?n=Creator&t=work Creators with pagetype "work"]]
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