This week’s theme for Top Ten Tuesday is picking authors you would like to see write together. I’ve taken a somewhat random approach, just throwing favourite authors together in some cases. Also, I’ve kept dead authors in the equation, because you never know. If anyone could find a way to talk to a dead author, it’d probably be another living author.
- N.K. Jemisin and Kameron Hurley. I can only imagine what evils they would create… it’d be amazing.
- Gail Simone and Kelly Sue DeConnick. A sudden thought: imagine Batgirl vs Captain Marvel. Or Captain Marvel vs Red Sonja.
- Jo Walton and Steven Brust. I like their work, Jo admires Brust’s books, and I know Brust at least has collaborated before…
- Scott Lynch and Joe Abercrombie. Mind you, it’d end with all the characters dead.
- Cherie Priest and Kelley Sue DeConnick. Maybe they could adapt Bloodshot and Hellbent into a comic, using Kelly Sue’s knowledge of how to script?
- Jo Walton and Dorothy L. Sayers. Farthing is a pastiche of Golden Age crime fiction. I’d love to see what Wimsey would do in Walton’s alternate Britain… or what Carmichael would do, face to face with Wimsey. I feel like he’d probably get along better with Parker.
- J.R.R. Tolkien and Guy Gavriel Kay. The Fionavar books were influenced by Tolkien, undoubtedly, and Kay worked with Tolkien’s son on preparing The Silmarillion. The two together would surely do some fascinating things with mythology.
- Ursula Le Guin and Jo Walton. Because what better way to short out my fannish circuits?
- Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Because Good Omens was genius.
- Robin McKinley and Neil Gaiman. Might be a bit of a mismatch, but they both deal in fairytales…
This was actually a really hard one to come up with. I’ll be interesting to see what other people have thought up!
Cool list. I teamed Abercrombie up with George R.R. Martin, but forgot that most of the characters would end up dead.
https://samwhitehousewriter.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/top-ten-tuesday-top-ten-two-authors-id-like-to-see-write-a-book-together/
Yeah, there really would be an epic death count if they teamed up!
Oh this is an interesting list! 😀 I bet you’re a fan of Neil Gaiman?
By the way here’s mine: http://wp.me/p4ZhSl-iK! 🙂
Not fanatically, but I do enjoy his work!
OH. 😀
Oh, my heart lurched at the thought of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, if only that had actually happened before he died 🙁 Neil Gaiman is making it onto a lot of people’s lists. I only had two pairings for my list, I had very little time before work today but this was such a fun topic I had to join in.
It is fun to think about, isn’t it? I wasn’t very good at thinking of authors whose styles would mesh, though…
I don’t think I know any of these authors *hangs head in shame* but how fun was this topic?! I like the topics that really make us think a bit. 🙂
It’s a bit of a weird mix, really! It was a great topic, though.
I couldn’t decide whether I wanted to include dead authors or not. In end I decided not to. Your list is very, very interesting. Here’s mt TTT https://ireadboooks.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/author-duos-id-like-to-read/
I wouldn’t have been able to think of anything if I hadn’t included some dead authors, I think!
Jo Walton and Steven Brust – now THAT would be interesting to see!
Yeah, exactly!
OMG I ONLY RECOGNISED ONE. I AM SUCH A FAILURE. 😛 I adored Good Omens though…that book was pure gold and I could reread it like a billion times.
You clearly need to fix that!
Ugh that 4th combination would result in SO MUCH SWEARING! 🙂 I didn’t do this topic but I immediately thought that Scott Lynch and Patrick Rothfuss would make an awesome pair, too.
True enough! And here is the moment I admit I haven’t read any Rothfuss — yet.