Pop Quiz: What is the Liaden Universe

[rolanni]

If you -- yes, you -- had to describe the Liaden Universe(R)in 50 words on less to a perfect stranger in a way that would (1) make sense and (2) make them want to run out and buy eleventy-leven copies of each and press them on all their friends, not to say persons chance-met on the street, what would you say? You may be as fanciful as possible, but you may not stray from the truth (i.e., "The Liaden Universe(R) is funnier than Pratchett, more epic than Tolkien, and it's a dessert topping").

Go crazy.

Comments

[aitchellsee.livejournal.com]

Well, I an constitutionally incapable of doing Concise, but I'm happy to offer you the perfect headline to use when you bulk-email the Fifty Words or Less to everyone in the whole universe as, um, Spam.

It came to me AS spam, under the subject line "I think you will like this" -- and I think you will like this ;-)

"Looking to get Liad tonight!"

HLC
(who blushes to confess that it
also makes her think of the first
meeting between Er Thom and Anne)

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Actually, this is to help us focus on the upcoming BEA; we may need to give very quick capsule reviews to the thousands of librarians and bookstore types walking by.... and having a couple semi-canned two or three line blurbs to haqnd will help a lot.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Y'know? I don't think I'd mind spam half as much if the generators of same could spell? This is not, you understand, saying very much, considering the depth of my feelings for spam and spammers, but -- still.