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, my aunt has had several SF and Fantasy novels published.
In progress: Sandbox.Open TTD
Tropes and Indexes I've Launched
- Eye Remember
- Hardboiled Detective
- Trapped by Gambling Debts (up for grabs)
- The Pratfall
- Flowery Elizabethan English (for Repair Shop)
- Settling the Frontier (up for grabs)
- Themed Stock Board Game (for Repair Shop)
- Magical Seventh Son
- Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award (index)
- Bizarre Alien Sexes (up for grabs)
- Exotic Extended Marriage
- Living Gasbag
- Bold Explorer
- Audio Play
- The Case of...
- Planet Spaceship (up for grabs)
- New Wave Science Fiction
- All of the "Literature of the XXXXs" pages except Literature of the 1990s, which already existed all by itself for some reason... (We also had TurnOfTheMillennium.Literature, which is now a redirect.)
- Horror Story Creator Index
- Eco-Terrorist
- John W Campbell Award For Best New Writer (split off from Hugo Award)
- Bram Stoker Award
- Gambling Brawl
- Fake Faith Healer
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.
- Planet of Adventure*
- Lyonesse*
- The Drawing of the Dark
- "True Names"
- Eight Worlds* (aka The Ophiuchi Hotline, Steel Beach, and The Golden Globe)
- Schild's Ladder* (work on this one has been hampered by the fact that my copy seems to have disappeared.)
- Creatures of Light and Darkness
- The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
- Courtship Rite
- Marîd Audran (aka When Gravity Fails and Budayeen)
- Rainbows End
- Priscilla Hutchins (aka The Academy Novels and The Engines Of God)
- "The Further Adventures of Nick Danger"* (my first non-literature addition)
- I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus
- J.W. Wells & Co.*
- Falling Sideways*
- The Unhandsome Prince
- Expecting Someone Taller
- Heroics for Beginners*
- Majipoor Series*
- Cities in Flight*
- The Greenwich Trilogy (aka The Butterfly Kid and The Unicorn Girl — didn't bother adding a redirect for The Probability Pad, since that's just too obscure)
- Flying Dutch*
- Blows Against the Empire
- The Bell at Sealey Head*
- Saturn's Children*
- Babel-17
- Empire Star
- Drake Maijstral (The Crown Jewels, House of Shards, Rock of Ages)
- The Starchild Trilogy (The Reefs of Space, Starchild, Rogue Star)
- The Radiators (US)
- The Promethean Age*
- Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson
- Sonja Blue* (inc. Sunglasses After Dark and A Dozen Black Roses)
- The Atrocity Archive*
- The Jennifer Morgue*
- The Last Days Of New Paris
- Midnight Robber
- Lafayette O'Leary (The Time Bender, The World Shuffler, The Shape Changer)
- Samantha Fish
Creator pages
- Michael Chabon
- Michael Kurland
- Jack McDevitt
- Norman Spinrad
- Melisa Michaels (aka Melisa C Michaels)
- Nancy Kress
- Jonathan Lethem
- Walter Jon Williams
- Eric Frank Russell
- Jack Williamson
- Allen Steele
- Hal Clement
- John Moore
- Damon Knight
- Joe Haldeman
- Theodore Sturgeon
- Greg Bear
- Bruce Sterling
- Samuel R. Delany
- John Dickson Carr (aka Carter Dickson)
- Olaf Stapledon
- Brian W. Aldiss
- James Blish
- Jane Lindskold
- Frank Herbert
- Emma Bull
- George Alec Effinger
- Mike Resnick
- Mary Stewart
- Shirley Jackson
- Christopher Priest (novelist)
- Michael Swanwick
- S. P. Somtow (aka Somtow Sucharitkul)
- Linnea Sinclair
- Frank Belknap Long
- Geek & Sundry
- Anthony Boucher
- Algis Budrys
- Jerry Pournelle
- James E. Gunn
- Kim Stanley Robinson
- Vonda N. McIntyre
- Maurice Sendak
- Alexei Panshin
- Robert L. Forward
- Rachel Caine
- Pearl S. Buck
- Charles Sheffield
- Avalon Hill
- E. M. Forster
- Melissa Scott
- Laura Resnick
- Elizabeth Bear
- K. W. Jeter
- Rudy Rucker
- A. Bertram Chandler
- Mack Reynolds
- Nancy A. Collins
- Orhan Pamuk
- Holly Lisle
- Thomas M. Disch
- Peter Straub
- Nevil Shute
- Rex Stout
Other Stuff
- Turned Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman into a page instead of a stub.
- Wrote a description for UsefulNotes.Fermi Paradox when it was brought to TRS as a stub.
- Wrote the non-self-describing version of Literature.Finnegans Wake (in this
TRS thread.)
- Rewrote/transplanted Bizarre Alien Biology as a trope+index at TRS.
- Rewrote/transplanted Boy Meets Ghoul as a trope about undead at TRS.
- Rewrote and added detail to Retief.
- Wrote a description for The Road to Mars, which only had one sentence when I found it.
- Entered the winning name, True Companions, 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 America Is Still a Colony launched after the YKTTW discussion had been stalled for years.
- Provided an actual description for the Catherine Asaro page.
- Sorted out 21st century authors from 20th on Authors, and made the subpages Authors of the 20th Century and Authors of the 21st Century.
- Responsible for many other winning names at YKTTW and TRS; I've lost track of them all.
Tropes that apply to me (more or less)
- Always Male: (so far).
- Hippie Parents: more or less. The well-educated college graduate flavor.
- Mathematician's Answer: as a programmer, I tend to overuse this.
- My Nayme Is based on the label of a present my mom gave me one Xmas.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: 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.
- Sophisticated as Hell: 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.
Pages I'm thinking of adding
Hugo/Nebula winners I own
- Forever Peace - both
- Rite Of Passage - nebula
- Downbelow Station - hugo
Misc (favorites and notable works)
- Glory Season - hugo-nominated novel by David Brin
- Wil Mc Carthy - The Queendom of Sol, Bloom, etc.
- The Queendom Of Sol - award-winning series by above
- The Space Merchants - classic SF novel by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth.
- Gather Darkness - an old favorite by Fritz Leiber
- The Fall Of The Towers - SF trilogy by Samuel R. Delany
- Nina Kiriki Hoffman - award winning fantasy author
- Jack Of Kinrowan - fantasy duology by Charles de Lint
- Trouble And Her Friends — cyberpunk novel by Melissa Scott
Searches suggest these deserve a page:
- Joel Rosenberg (campbell award nominee)
- CS Friedman (ditto)
- Delia Sherman (ditto)
- Julia Ecklar (campbell winner)
- Michelle Sagara, aka Michelle West (c. nominee)
- Jeff Noon (ditto)
- Sharon Shinn (c. nom.)
- Mary Doria Russell (ditto)
- Kage Baker (ditto)
- Naomi Novik (c winner)
- Scott Lynch (c. nom)
- Joe Abercrombie (c. nom)
- Gail Carriger (ditto)
- Chuck Wendig (ditto)
Notes
- Daniel Pinkwater: needs re-org bad!
- Chalion: redirects
- The Space Odyssey Series: wicks (redirects?)
- Sprawl Trilogy: wicks
- Islands in the Net: crosswick
- Bone Dance: crosswick
- Remnant Population: crosswick
- The Chronoliths: crosswick
- The Eschaton Series: wicks (redirects?)
- Newsflesh: wicks
- Harrison Bergeron: wicks
- Jennifer Government: wicks
- Machine Man: wicks
- This Perfect Day: wicks
- Darkness Visible: wicks
- Lonely Werewolf Girl: wicks
- Book of Swords: wicks 'n' such
- Solomon Kane: once the wicks are finished, Main/ should be turned into a disambiguation.
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