TV Show: Star Trek TOS - because I watched this show before I could talk and for a long time this wasSFF for me.
Book: Robert A. Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land - because I read it when I was about 14 and it got me thinking about some things.
Tanya Huff: The Fire's Stone - because I'd read all the Heinlein at an impressionable age, I thought a poly romance was the perfect B plot for a fantasy novel.
Book Series: Elizabeth A. Lynn: The Chronicles of Tornor - because it became a ritual that lasted a decade to look for her books first in the used bookstore. And the fix-it fic I wrote in my head was the first fanfic I ever "wrote".
Lois McMaster Bujold: Vorkosigan Saga - because Cordelia is awesome.
Mercedes Lackey: Valdemar series - because you can roll your eyes at the emo all you like, but they're still rollicking good stories with all kinds of people getting to be heroes.
Douglas Adams: Dirk Gently series - because Hitchhiker wears me out after about a book and a half, but I think these stories are brilliant.
Robert Asprin (and sometimes Peter J. Heck): Phule's Company series - because sometime you need a laugh, and the band of misfits conquers all never gets old.
David Weber: Honor Harrington series - because Honor is so awesome, she's worth all that "science" infodump he's so fond of.
Anthology Series: Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress books - because they got women published and lots of the stories are good and some are excellent.
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Star Trek TOS - because I watched this show before I could talk and for a long time this wasSFF for me.
Book:
Robert A. Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land - because I read it when I was about 14 and it got me thinking about some things.
Tanya Huff: The Fire's Stone - because I'd read all the Heinlein at an impressionable age, I thought a poly romance was the perfect B plot for a fantasy novel.
Book Series:
Elizabeth A. Lynn: The Chronicles of Tornor - because it became a ritual that lasted a decade to look for her books first in the used bookstore. And the fix-it fic I wrote in my head was the first fanfic I ever "wrote".
Lois McMaster Bujold: Vorkosigan Saga - because Cordelia is awesome.
Mercedes Lackey: Valdemar series - because you can roll your eyes at the emo all you like, but they're still rollicking good stories with all kinds of people getting to be heroes.
Douglas Adams: Dirk Gently series - because Hitchhiker wears me out after about a book and a half, but I think these stories are brilliant.
Robert Asprin (and sometimes Peter J. Heck): Phule's Company series - because sometime you need a laugh, and the band of misfits conquers all never gets old.
David Weber: Honor Harrington series - because Honor is so awesome, she's worth all that "science" infodump he's so fond of.
Anthology Series:
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress books - because they got women published and lots of the stories are good and some are excellent.