Justine Larbalestier

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1. dragonfly Says:

   i very much like vampires done well. but there is much not done well. have to search carefully, i guess.

   February 2nd, 2008 at 4:17 PM

2. 2. Justine Says:

   Me too! One of my favourite books ever is Suzy McKee Charnas’s The Vampire Tapestry.

   February 2nd, 2008 at 4:18 PM

3. Delia Says:

   Ghouls. I think ghoul-lovers are an underserved community. Plus, they can eat the extra vampires.

   February 2nd, 2008 at 5:32 PM

4. Eric Luper Says:

   Can I write in QUOKKAS?

   February 2nd, 2008 at 6:20 PM

5. Mary Elizabeth S. Says:

   It seems quite a lot of people are sick of badly done vampires. We love them, and we hate to see them ruined.

   Doesn’t look like there are many votes for werewolves. Oddly, I have yet to find a werewolf book I liked very well, although I love the idea of werewolves. (Prolly why I’m writing about them, huh?)

   ~Mary

   February 2nd, 2008 at 6:26 PM

6. Mary Elizabeth S. Says:

   Hmm…it strikes me that maybe what people hate isn’t so much a badly done vampire as it is a legend with so much possibility that doesn’t get used?

   ~Mary

   (sorry for the double post…)

   February 2nd, 2008 at 6:32 PM

7. Brent Says:

   Well, I think it’s a given that most of us like vampires and hate to see them done poorly. So I voted Robots/Cyborgs for my 2nd choice. I’m more than a little tired of the weapon/power that saves the day, rewrites all known science and natural law, but is then gone next episode with no side effects or long-term effects on the economy, sciences, religion, society, etc.

   February 2nd, 2008 at 10:36 PM

8. Tim Says:

   The poll results would seem to indicate that your planned Daikaiju/ghouls manga series would have lots of running room in the marketplace.

   If this comment gets you closer to bringing to fruition the said Daikaiju/ghouls manga series . . . my work here has been successful.

   February 2nd, 2008 at 10:55 PM

9. Dawn Says:

   Not everyone’s vampires are the same. Plus, maggots only show up when a body has been lying around for awhile. ZOMBIES will be flicking off the maggots, not vampires. Anyway, something that a specific vampire author has said that makes sense to me is something along these lines: there are many types of beasts that have something on their body to attract their prey. So with humans being a vampire’s prey, it only makes sense that they’re made to attract humans.

   As a co-writer of a novel that includes vampires, I just had to say something in defense. And just so you know, I HATE poorly written vampire novels with ideas that have been used over and over again. I’ve read too many of them myself. Hopefully if I ever get published, we’ll be able to do that sub-sub-sub-genre of writing some good.

   February 2nd, 2008 at 11:04 PM

10. Patrick Says:

    Seriously. Everything can be made better with a robot army. To even SUGGEST that robots might be played out….

    robots misunderstanding human logic makes for great comedy and hi-jinx

    please remove robots from the list. They are just not an option.

    February 3rd, 2008 at 8:54 AM

11. rebecca Says:

    “i very much like vampires done well. but there is much not done well. have to search carefully, i guess.”

    they are so hard to find. every once in a great while, i find one that doesn’t make me want to scream and fling the book across the room.

    February 4th, 2008 at 8:34 PM

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