"Semi" is a character from the HUGO award winning EXPANSE series.
Don't drop the Semi!
I'm not familiar with the genre, never heard of her, and I just couldn't resist a lame joke about yet another "well-known" meta entity.
I chalked this one up to being similar to the 1000 Island Dressing answer where dressing was implied.
So....when I wrote this on Thursday, I had noticed the grid entries and the initials. I had DONHO, PASSGO, and JOTDOWN, but in not 1000% noticing the title and the ease of seeing things on the Across axis, I had HELIPAD as my 4th key entry. The rabbit hole I hit was to take the letters between the author initials in the entries; that gave me such possible answers as ELI ASSOTON, ELIOT ONASS(with another IS at the end I would need to backsolve from somewhere, I presume), and ELIAS SOTON. Since I don't know many non-famousfamous sci-fi authors, I mean, why not? Sure, you'd hope ELI ASSOTON would use a pen name but whatever....MikeM000 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 4:50 pm
I feel like Lisa Simpson looking at the YAHOO SERIOUS FESTIVAL theater marquee. I have letters, and those letters can be put together in various name-wielding combinations, but none of them are sci-fi writers that I know of. Google is pretty much mocking my search queries now after about 9 tries; it's just coming back with "no, you moron - that is not the name of a science fiction writer. Please stop embarrassing yourself in front of me."