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Niall ([personal profile] coalescent) wrote2007-08-29 10:18 am

Who's missing?

[Poll #1046886]

Actual answer here. Vote before you click.

EDIT: See also [livejournal.com profile] jlassen's two entries, and Andrew Wheeler here.

FURTHER EDIT: Commentary from [livejournal.com profile] rosefox here and [livejournal.com profile] cristalia here.
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[personal profile] andrewducker 2007-08-29 09:36 am (UTC)(link)
Nix is big over here, so far as I can tell. I know at least three people who are big fans of his, despite not being SF/Fantasy readers in general. By strange coincidence they're all women...

[identity profile] abigail-n.livejournal.com 2007-08-29 09:41 am (UTC)(link)
I've never read a single story by Nix, but his name never fails to make the covers of anthologies he's in, which was why I ticked it.

[identity profile] coalescent.livejournal.com 2007-08-29 09:45 am (UTC)(link)
I've read one short story that appeared in (I think) F&SF, and I read Mister Monday and whatever the second one in that sequence is a couple of years ago. I wasn't blown away and have felt no need to pick up anything else by him. But the Sabriel/Lirael/Abhorsen trilogy is spoken well of by several people I know.

[identity profile] benpeek.livejournal.com 2007-08-29 11:18 am (UTC)(link)
i didn't think much of it, personally. it's not my kind of thing, and i only read SABRIEL, but i just didn't vibe with it. i wouldn't exactly say there was anything wrong with what nix does, except that it's kinda bloodless.

[identity profile] bluetyson.livejournal.com 2007-08-29 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I've only read the story from that universe from his anthology, got the same impression. Did read like something aimed at the young.

Didn't think about his famousness as such because of that, or might have thought to put him in and get 4. :)