| 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. |