Re: Reintroduction

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Aug 18 2000 - 01:41:31 MDT


At 05:10 PM 16/08/00 -0400, The Nameless wrote:

>A good point about distinctiveness and euphony being as important as
>uniqueness; I just think it should be possible to be distinctive, yet
>easy to spell.
>
>How about "Chester Q. Fordyce"? Just kidding...
>
>Doug Jones also has an interesting point about being able to steal from
>Zelazny and the like. I've never been good at coming up with syllables
>myself.

Steal instead from Poofy Wellington and James Blish:

"Spike Aleph-null"

This surname has the advantage of infinity combined with what looks like
its own historical negation. The first name, although it would create
confusion on this list, slips more readily from the lips than "Singularity"
or "Exponentiating Powers of Sublime Wonderfulness".

Damien Broderick
[aka Alan Harlison, Roger Delany, Jack Harding, Damien Jose Broderick,
Horace West and other atrocities recorded in the Melbourne University Press
Encyclopedia of Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy, 1999]



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