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Those were ab fab!
Eighty-two, eighty five
Are my favourites.

Top forty haiku?
I think it could be done. Not
I, someone could try.

With the works of JAK
Or Nora, or some other
prolific author.

I agree with Helen M ‘85 rocked, however the fact that I managed to mostly understand ‘84 kinda worries me.

Hmm my ‘magic’ word is position33, where can I look this up, could be fun.

Yay! Uhm. Yay!

Sorry, brain is addled by Nanowrimo. I cannot be more eloquent.

However, yay for geeky haiku!

I’d be curious to see how many cross genre readers romance has in SciFi.  I know I’m one.  Tell Katie to hang in there!

-A comic book collecting, SciFi (and Romance) reading, RPG playing, con attending Latin teacher.

These are great.

1973 - Rendezvous With Rama
What is this huge thing?
Alien passing by Earth?
You don’t get to know.

Ooh I hate that.  I need to know!

These are brilliant.  Thank you for sharing.

awesome.

I’m afraid I’m going to think every thought in haiku today. LOL

These are awesome.

Spider I’m another romance/sf/fantasy crossover reader, with a healthy dose of mystery thrown in. Speaking of spiders have you ever read Spider Robinson? Excellent writer.

I would read far more book reviews if they were written in haiku. Katie, you rock!

Heh...glad to see I’m not the only one that Rama frustrated.

And I, too, am somewhat disturbed (and at the same time strangely and vastly pleased) that I managed to understand the Neuromancer haiku with only minimal confusion.

w00t! \m/

Oh, wow.  Those were great.95 and 02 are favorites, although 84 fits too. 70 is what I’m going to use in the next birthday card for the sci-fi dude and 66 will make me snicker.

68 was great, but that book pales in comparision to his other ones.

Help a fellow reader out, what the heck does 84 say?  I read the book and that’s not helping *blush*

1984 - Neuromancer
1 \X/1|| |-|@><><0|2 j00
\X/17|-| |\/|`/ |_||}3|2|337 $|<1||z0|2$|
This is kind of sad.

BWAHAHA!  Okay, the “Enders Game” and its sequel are making me snort snot over here.

I love good SF/Fantasy as much as good Romance...many SF’s just seem like Romance on other planets to me, anyway.  But I even like the hard science ones with no core relationship plotlines...guess I’m just a fiction ‘ho, I’ll go with anything as long as it’s a good, gaspy ride.

I couldn’t do top forty romance haiku, but how about limericks?

Janie, I read 84 as

I will haxxor you
With my uber leet skillzors
This is kind of sad.

This might help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet

I’m sooo impressed!

These made my inner fan girl go squeeee. I’m an even bigger sf/f fan than I am romance, and that’s saying an awful lot. What I love is when the two intersect ala Lois McMaster Bujold, Catherine Asaro, Robin McKinnley, Anne Bishop, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Kim Harrison.

wow helen, i just totally wasted twenty minutes reading that page about Leet...and almost got sucked into the one on teh...crazyyyy gamers.

Brilliant and hilarious!  The back-to-back Card haikus nearly made hot chocolate come out of my nose.

hi guys hope you don’t mind,but I linked this post over on Making Light.

Nina: We don’t mind at all. In fact, if Katie sees her post make it to Making Light, I’m pretty sure she’s going to a-splode with the happiness.

2005 - Camouflage by Joe Haldeman.

Chameleon bad,
Changeling good. Karma will come
for Chameleon.

2002 - American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Even modern men
Shouldn’t trust a Trickster God;
You need to be told?

1985 - Enders Game by Orson Scott Card

Serial killer
Ends war with a genocide -
Card claims “Innocent"…

But isn’t “genitalia” five syllables?

I think you may have Tehanu confused with The Tombs of Atuan, but otherwise, wonderful haiku!

okay---this may not “show up” on the site but(t).....i just started reading IT by (gasp) Stephen King and, like it or not, he is aces when it comes to writing about kids---preteens...boys AND girls (The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is a treasure!!!!).....SCARY????you bet. but only as scary as life really is....so far IT is detailing the social/familial foibles of small-towm Maine. i expect things will get worse..much worse. Beware Of Clowns!!!!  hey hi y’alll

Do 40?  Not a chance.  These are very cool, although she could spice up the Ringworld one perhaps. :)

The only SF one I ever did, was a bad metajoke, anyway, but was one of those books, funnily enough.

Haiku form SF
Tells us of dolphins speaking
A Startide Rising

Awesome. Just awesome.
When I grow up I want to
be awesome like you. :)

she likes haiku, eh?
then perhaps your friend Katie
should visit us here:

http://community.livejournal.com/scifhaiku/

These are excellent!

(I just spent 10 minutes trying to think up my own haiku. I’ve decided to leave it to the experts, so I’m not here all evening.)