It seems that scfrankles and I are chasing each other across the game board this round, but I am going back to that well for "A Slight Fabrication" because it seems to me that what the Supreme Commander asserts about my style in connection with "Beekeeper" is equally on-the-nose with respect to their style and the tale of two old felts and their inimitable landlady. "Fabrication" is laced with puns and wordplay throughout, and is warm and fuzzy and wise in very much the same way as a certain tale spun off from Without a Clue some rounds back. And I am struck by the Commander's reticence with regard to this story, which has been one of the most-discussed in the current guessing phase. If "A Slight Fabrication" is not an scfrankles story, I will be very surprised indeed.
My Dearly Beloved Detective
"Seeking High-Energy Self-Starter, Flexible Schedule" is a warm and clever story, though not an especially flashy one. And what occurred to me as I started looking around for prospective authors was this: over the last several rounds, more often than not there's been one very flashy, very envelope-pushing story that at least half of the guessing pool ascribes to one particular author. Sometimes we're right, and sometimes we're wrong, but we always expect fireworks from that quarter.
There isn't really one of those stories this round -- except possibly, I suppose, for "The Apprentice's Beekeeper", but in this case that's not a deal-breaker, because the author in question avoids the Russellverse even more diligently than they avoid BBC Sherlock. But "High Energy Self-Starter" homes in on something else in which this author is known to specialize: warm, wise, and deeply clever female characters. Which is why my guess for this one is gardnerhill.
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Guesses: Lightning Round #3
Date: 2019-12-20 04:22 pm (UTC)It seems that
My Dearly Beloved Detective
"Seeking High-Energy Self-Starter, Flexible Schedule" is a warm and clever story, though not an especially flashy one. And what occurred to me as I started looking around for prospective authors was this: over the last several rounds, more often than not there's been one very flashy, very envelope-pushing story that at least half of the guessing pool ascribes to one particular author. Sometimes we're right, and sometimes we're wrong, but we always expect fireworks from that quarter.
There isn't really one of those stories this round -- except possibly, I suppose, for "The Apprentice's Beekeeper", but in this case that's not a deal-breaker, because the author in question avoids the Russellverse even more diligently than they avoid BBC Sherlock. But "High Energy Self-Starter" homes in on something else in which this author is known to specialize: warm, wise, and deeply clever female characters. Which is why my guess for this one is