What great(or not-so-great) books have inspired your Board name?
DNA’s Hitch-hiker series for me.
Uhh, literary? Mine was a comic book: Doonesbury.
Tripler
And oh how fitting it is.
No book inspired my name, though I’d wager a few books were authored using the inspiration for my handle.
Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time, here.
Ender’s Game here.
There are 2 others that I know of on the boards also inspired by OSC.
“The Plague” by Albert Camus
Ancient Greco-Roman mythology, specifically from the Trojan War
Bloom County.
Roger Zelazny’s Chronicles of Amber
Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story
I was inspired by the excellent short story Johnny Longdong meets Debbie Bigbust. 'Twas an amazing tale… brought tears to my eyes and semen to my… uh… nevermind.
Some asshole put a plague upon both my houses.
A timely question. I got it from a Poul Anderson book. Ensign Flandry I believe.
Straight Dope.
Some say my name is a Dean Koontz novel. While this is true, I chose my name because it is a Rush song.
Some dipshit tore off my arm and killed my mom.
Graham Edwards’ Dragoncharm
WWF Magazine
[sub]What, you thought it was a reference to the Hardy Boys and not the Hardy Boyz?[/sub]
My autobiography.
What?
“The Pastoral Industries of Australia”