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All possible plots by major authors (2020)

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166 points ohjeez | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 19:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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farmeroy ◴[15 Oct 24 22:28 UTC] No.41853786[source]▶
I want an author who's work is completely unidentifiable from one release to the next. Or to find a dozen authors who have inconceivably and independently created identical manuscripts. Surely if there were a library with all possible books, we would find one of those two things...
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1. dsr_ ◴[15 Oct 24 22:54 UTC] No.41853948[source]▶
Not exactly, but Walter Jon Williams keeps switching genres successfully:

- Napoleonic sea fighting

- early cyberpunk (Hardwired)

- middle cyberpunk around the Solar System (Voice of the Whirlwind)

- late cyberpunk post-scarcity space opera(Aristoi)

- transhuman space opera (Implied Spaces)

- New Mexican police procedural / thriller (Days of Atonement)

- near future thrillers (This Is Not A Game and sequelae)

- fantasy of city infrastructure (Metropolitan and City on Fire)

- comedy of manners (the Drake Maijstral trilogy)

- Fall of the Space Roman Empire (Dread Empire's Fall series)

- Medieval fantasy (Quillifer and sequelae)

and a Giant Disaster novel, a Zelaznyesque SF mystery, and a Star Wars work-for-hire.

There's enough there for five separate authors to make marks on the field.