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I want an author who's work is completely unidentifiable from one release to the next. Or to find a dozen authors who have inconceivably and independently creat

I want an author who's work is completely unidentifiable from one release to the next. Or to find a dozen authors who have inconceivably and independently created identical manuscripts. Surely if there were a library with all possible books, we would find one of those two things...

npilk 2y ago
Sounds like you'd be interested in the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges - your comment brings Pierre Menard to mind.
dsr_ 2y ago
Not exactly, but Walter Jon Williams keeps switching genres successfully: - Napoleonic sea fighting - early cyberpunk (Hardwired) - middle cyberpunk around the Solar System (Voice of the Whirlwind) - late cyberpunk post-scarcity space opera(Aristoi) - transhuman space opera (Implied Spaces) - New Mexican police procedural / thriller (Days of Atonement) - near future thrillers (This Is Not A Game and sequelae) - fantasy of city infrastructure (Metropolitan and City on Fire) - comedy of manners (the Drake Maijstral trilogy) - Fall of the Space Roman Empire (Dread Empire's Fall series) - Medieval fantasy (Quillifer and sequelae) and a Giant Disaster novel, a Zelaznyesque SF mystery, and a Star Wars work-for-hire. There's enough there for five separate authors to make marks on the field.
drdeca 2y ago
> Or to find a dozen authors who have inconceivably and independently created identical manuscripts. So, kind of like, or so it is said, the septaguint?