New Trends in Fiction
Since I know you have all spent countless hours worrying about the next trend in paranormal romance, I thought I'd let author Maggie Stiefvater tell you:
Labels: kraken, pranormal romance
posted by dubjay at 9:29 PM
13 Comments:
Very clever.
I think I did this panel at Capricon in the very early Nineties, when Lois Tilton was still writing regularly and Laurell Hamilton was a svelte blonde.
Strangely, despite many mentions of the first sets, no one (even those of us scared by the episode of The Wild Wild West when it first came out) thought to mention the kraken.
Just think: with eight limbs plus gentalia, you could make a series around the escapades of a co-ed soccer team. Talk about crossover potential...
FYI, it's Maggie Stiefvater, not Mary Stiefvater as in your post. The latter is some actress.
Wonder if the books of the former are any good . . .
Thanks, Margot! Corrected!
I wonder if the acting of the latter is any good . . . ?
I attended Viable Paradise last week; if my fellow students do represent the next wave of SF/Fantasy, I can promise you squids in abundance.
For that matter, I believed in the Squidpunk anthology for at least three days just because I really, really wanted to read it.
Clever indeed. But nary a mention of the squiddest and baddest deep-sea lothario of them all, Cthulhu?
Anything would be preferable to vampires! I have just one thing to say to all you SF/Fantasy writers out there - NO MORE VAMPIRES!! I am sick to death of vampires!! Bram Stoker SHOULD have been the last word on vampires. You've all taken this particular trope much, much further than it can possibly stretch to - PLEASE STOP NOW!!!
Ooo. Thanks, Dave! That rant gave me a whole new idea for a nifty new vampire novel. Or series! Even better.
Oh, I love this idea! I have always had a thing for giant cephalopods.
For the record, there's a Spanish SF short story ("Bajando", by Ramón Muñoz) about a man who falls in love with a female Architeuthis...
Vampyroteuthis infernalis - the vampire squid from hell, an actual species name. Clearly potential for kraken/vampire crossover here.
The pool is now open on when Dubjay starts his YouTube channel. ;)
Already done. See "The Calamari Wrestler".
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