Julie at Happy Catholic passed on this latest meme to me which is surprisingly difficult to answer and limiting your choices to just three. Plus there is the fear of what a psychologist might make of the choices.
Name up to three characters . . .
1) . . . you wish were real so you could meet them.
1. Paul Atreides (Dune Series)
2. Rincewind (Discworld series)
3. Ender (Orson Scott Cards’s series)
2) . . . you would like to be.
1. Drizzt Do’Urden (Iceland Dale Trilogy and other novels)
2. Able of the High Heart (Gene Wolfe’s Wizard Knight series)
3. Fr. Elijah (Michael D. O’Brien’s Children of the Last Days novels)
3) . . . who scare you.
1. The Psychohistorians in Asimov’s Foundation series (what can be scarier then hidden bureaucrats who think they know what is best for you)
2. The Elder Things in H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness (or pretty much anything by Lovecraft).
3. The Fithp in Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle’s Footfall.I inflict this meme on The Sci Fi Catholic, Claw of the Conciliator, and Video meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor
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The fifthp were some of the best aliens ever; but I really didn’t find them that scary, because they were so understandable. Interesting…
Rincewind? Aren’t you afraid of disaster coming suddenly upon you?
She inflicted this on me, too. And it was very difficult!
FWIW, my answers can be found at:
http://marchhareshouse.blogspot.com/2007/04/booked-by-3-meme.html