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Just discovered this about a 2014 Hugo nominee |
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May 25th 2014 | 1
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Holy fuck man the fuck is going on here |
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May 25th 2014 | 3
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here's the context |
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May 25th 2014 | 8
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fock @ obvious historical reason |
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May 28th 2014 | 39
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yeah nothing is objective |
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May 25th 2014 | 2
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yup.. ruined O.S.Card for me. |
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May 25th 2014 | 4
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He was the first one I thought of when I read OP's post. |
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May 25th 2014 | 7
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I haven't read Enders Game |
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May 27th 2014 | 34
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Ender's Game is only sort of like that. |
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Sep 21st 2015 | 241
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I try and appreciate it for what it is |
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May 25th 2014 | 5
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I read Ender's Game early and enjoyed |
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May 25th 2014 | 6
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i think ender's game just shows how important time/process is |
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May 25th 2014 | 11
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Speaker For The Dead was and is an absolutely amazing book |
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May 27th 2014 | 37
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I watched Ender's Game and it was pretty good, but flicks like that |
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Sep 13th 2015 | 234
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I just keep finding more shit |
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May 25th 2014 | 9
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i did read those and that's not surprising |
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May 25th 2014 | 10
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would you recommend the books? the author? |
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May 25th 2014 | 12
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RE: would you recommend the books? the author? |
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May 25th 2014 | 13
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*shakes fist at these liu cixin joints being kindle only* |
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May 27th 2014 | 36
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yeah its a shame....taking care of gods is also really good |
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Jun 02nd 2014 | 54
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oh yeah I did find out about Cixin from this post... THANKS!! |
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Dec 08th 2014 | 133
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RE: Anyone wanna talk the politics of sci-fi |
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May 25th 2014 | 14
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RE: Anyone wanna talk the politics of sci-fi |
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May 27th 2014 | 15
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RE: Anyone wanna talk the politics of sci-fi |
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May 27th 2014 | 16
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ionno |
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May 27th 2014 | 20
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LOL!! |
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May 27th 2014 | 25
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Haha. You kinda nailed it though here |
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May 28th 2014 | 43
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RE: LOL |
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May 27th 2014 | 30
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Ah, I misunderstood the initital post. |
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May 27th 2014 | 17
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Excellent post. I will try to be succint. |
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May 27th 2014 | 18
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What's Jimisin's best? |
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May 27th 2014 | 21
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The Inheritance Trilogy |
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May 27th 2014 | 27
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sounds dope. thanks |
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May 27th 2014 | 29
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I swear none of the bookstores around me carry Jemison |
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Jan 20th 2015 | 144
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one reason i really enjoy robert jordan |
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May 28th 2014 | 40
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just copped some Conan stories by this dude. nm |
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May 28th 2014 | 44
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welcome to the club |
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May 27th 2014 | 19
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this would be really interesting |
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May 27th 2014 | 26
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it would |
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May 28th 2014 | 46
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i heard a radio piece abt how independant book sellers are actually |
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May 27th 2014 | 22
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I've heard of and seen articles about a bunch of em |
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May 27th 2014 | 24
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Books of Wonder is DOPE. |
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May 27th 2014 | 28
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If they figured out the cafe I'd never leave |
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May 27th 2014 | 31
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wow. a rabbit hole im disappointed to have turned down |
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May 27th 2014 | 32
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#MAKEBLKSCIFI <----- |
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May 27th 2014 | 33
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Related |
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May 27th 2014 | 35
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#libertarian |
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May 28th 2014 | 42
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no doubt. this is great topic. hope we keep cooking in here |
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May 28th 2014 | 50
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i used to read a lot of Larry Niven when i was young. don't fux |
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May 27th 2014 | 38
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I was reading a bunch of those guys |
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May 28th 2014 | 45
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fuck Niven |
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Jun 04th 2014 | 70
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Diversity Issues Plague BEA (link) |
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May 28th 2014 | 41
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In retrospect, I think I was trying to counter this with 50YFN |
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May 28th 2014 | 47
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Definitely |
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May 28th 2014 | 48
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So how do we counter this |
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May 28th 2014 | 49
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shame publishers? |
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Jun 02nd 2014 | 52
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I'm thinking more subversive... |
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Jun 02nd 2014 | 53
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Gotta take back some of this... |
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Jun 21st 2014 | 83
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Lol smh |
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Jun 18th 2015 | 220
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article |
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Jun 26th 2014 | 87
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Good piece addressing the institutional racism at work |
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Jun 28th 2014 | 90
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Incidentally Nebula nominated its first self pub'd title this year |
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Jun 03rd 2014 | 62
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write better fantasy/scifi that doesn't involve racist and |
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Jun 09th 2014 | 77
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Yesterday's bookstore visit |
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May 29th 2014 | 51
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I enjoyed Ancillary Justice but not for the PC reasons |
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Jun 21st 2014 | 82
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LOL I take it all back |
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Oct 12th 2014 | 111
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Author on using 'she' as a pronoun throughout books |
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Oct 22nd 2014 | 112
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Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke wanna see a FANTASTIC |
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Jun 03rd 2014 | 55
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One of my favorite books |
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Jun 03rd 2014 | 57
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oh, u read it? good ((everyone else note SPOILER ahead)) |
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Jun 04th 2014 | 71
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this was actually my first science fiction book |
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Jun 03rd 2014 | 61
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SyFy apparently has a miniseries based on this in the works |
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Feb 01st 2015 | 150
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Didn't realize Clarke was gay |
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Feb 13th 2015 | 169
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"Why Isnt Everyone Reading NK Jemisin?" (swipe) |
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Jun 03rd 2014 | 56
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It's funny because |
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Jun 03rd 2014 | 58
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or Karen Lord! Both of them are fantastic. |
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Jun 03rd 2014 | 66
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I've had "The Best of All Possible Worlds" on my list for a grip |
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Jun 04th 2014 | 68
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She is definitely a world builder like Jemisin. Details Details!!! |
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Jun 06th 2014 | 73
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Picked up "Galaxy Games" this weekend and I'm all in |
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Jan 20th 2015 | 145
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Galaxy Games was a great read. |
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Feb 01st 2015 | 149
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Okay so I read Inheritance Trilogy Omnibus |
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May 03rd 2015 | 215
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Anybody read Karen Miller's "Godspeaker" trilogy? |
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Jun 03rd 2014 | 59
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Damn that's fucked up!! |
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Jun 03rd 2014 | 60
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lmBao. i'd throw the 2nd book away and pretend it never |
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Jun 03rd 2014 | 63
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I stopped reading at first, but then |
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Jun 03rd 2014 | 64
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doing the amazon rating math |
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Jun 03rd 2014 | 65
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Damn. n/m |
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Jun 03rd 2014 | 67
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waooow. so, basically a dressed up version of youtube / yahoo |
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Jun 06th 2014 | 74
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this story needs to be written |
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Jun 09th 2014 | 76
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RE: this story needs to be written |
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Jun 10th 2014 | 79
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i was telling this to 2 of my sons. they were liking the idea also. |
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Jun 10th 2014 | 80
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dope |
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Jun 10th 2014 | 81
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Please Do! |
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Jun 23rd 2014 | 85
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Tor editor fired for sexual harrassment volunteers at con where it happe... |
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Jun 04th 2014 | 69
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Christopher Priest going off on the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2012 |
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Jun 06th 2014 | 72
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Technology - The Next Political frontier |
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Jun 09th 2014 | 75
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you're not rambling at all |
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Jun 10th 2014 | 78
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Anyone writing? |
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Jun 21st 2014 | 84
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yes but I dont write sci-fi |
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Jun 26th 2014 | 88
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bookmark |
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Jun 23rd 2014 | 86
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A few books: |
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Jun 26th 2014 | 89
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Ytasha's book |
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Jun 28th 2014 | 91
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Including the features without attesting to the cultures |
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Jul 06th 2014 | 92
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I have it on the list |
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Jul 16th 2014 | 94
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Writing the opposite sex |
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Jul 16th 2014 | 93
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did you ever feel |
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Jul 16th 2014 | 95
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I understood it from the jump |
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Jul 16th 2014 | 96
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got ya, and yeah we disagree |
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Jul 16th 2014 | 100
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highest is subjective |
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Jul 17th 2014 | 102
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I was doing it |
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Jul 16th 2014 | 97
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I probably should have explained |
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Jul 28th 2014 | 103
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So I just finished Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead |
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Jul 16th 2014 | 98
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here |
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Jul 16th 2014 | 99
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wow |
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Jul 16th 2014 | 101
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yeah. there's a chasm of disconnect between those earlier |
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Aug 26th 2014 | 107
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On: the elephant in the Lovecraftian room |
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Aug 25th 2014 | 104
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another link |
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Aug 25th 2014 | 105
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Holy shit. WOW. |
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Sep 01st 2015 | 230
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Oh this Older vs Joshi beef is rich |
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Aug 25th 2014 | 106
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i think talking about Lovecraft's actual words is important tho |
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Sep 06th 2014 | 108
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Absolutely |
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Sep 06th 2014 | 109
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it's not that i disagree |
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Sep 06th 2014 | 110
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in the same regard, the fact that Lovecraft was racist |
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Oct 23rd 2014 | 113
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kinda got lost in this argument |
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Nov 06th 2014 | 116
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pretty much, the end |
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Nov 06th 2014 | 118
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Then Joshi should have started his argument there |
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Nov 07th 2014 | 120
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Karen Lord sits next to Lovecraft on bookstore shelves |
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Nov 30th 2014 | 126
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Tor.com blog series rereading lovecroft |
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Feb 19th 2015 | 173
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J Bouie wrote that Marvel's Civil War storyline was Far-Right Paranoid |
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Oct 23rd 2014 | 114
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Slavery in the future/on other planets |
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Nov 06th 2014 | 115
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I think it makes a lot of sense |
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Nov 06th 2014 | 117
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I question this |
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Nov 07th 2014 | 119
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Yeah I'd agree with that |
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Nov 30th 2014 | 127
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Harry Potter |
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Nov 28th 2014 | 121
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Still stuck on this... I want to blame Rowling |
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Dec 08th 2014 | 134
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Besides the obvious in this Amazon best of 2014 list |
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Nov 28th 2014 | 122
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Monstro - Junot Diaz |
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Nov 29th 2014 | 123
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Thanks for this |
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Nov 30th 2014 | 124
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RE: |
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Nov 30th 2014 | 125
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RE: |
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Nov 30th 2014 | 128
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RE: |
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Dec 01st 2014 | 129
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RE: |
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Dec 01st 2014 | 131
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William Gibson interview |
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Dec 01st 2014 | 130
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"The Three Body Problem" Cixin Liu |
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Dec 08th 2014 | 132
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Thinking on the author canon as discussed above re Lovecraft |
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Dec 08th 2014 | 135
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what's interesting to me is |
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Dec 29th 2014 | 138
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Came across this piece and remembered this post. |
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Dec 24th 2014 | 136
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yeah leguin is tied for my favorite writer all time |
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Dec 29th 2014 | 139
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love her |
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Jan 14th 2015 | 141
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wow. book game dirty like the rap game. this paragraph: |
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Feb 04th 2015 | 153
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on: self pub in 2015 |
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Dec 29th 2014 | 137
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Stop waiting on the right sign and do it. |
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Jan 14th 2015 | 142
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it's happening... stay tuned. |
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Jan 14th 2015 | 143
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a sci-fi project/anthology called "Hieroglyph" |
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Jan 13th 2015 | 140
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More fun with Amazon reviews |
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Jan 20th 2015 | 146
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I found this review interesting |
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Feb 01st 2015 | 147
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Rush Limbaugh is writing time travel fantasy, Glen Beck post-apocalyptic... |
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Feb 01st 2015 | 148
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Some quotes on hard sf from a review i just read |
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Feb 04th 2015 | 151
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What is the name of that story where everyone is forced to be equal? |
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Feb 04th 2015 | 152
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Harrison Bergeron by Vonnegut |
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Feb 05th 2015 | 154
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Yes! I always thought it was racist as hell. |
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Feb 09th 2015 | 158
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Back on that (W)right |
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Feb 06th 2015 | 155
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addendum |
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Feb 06th 2015 | 156
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Ayo... this shit is an all out war that ain't dying |
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Feb 09th 2015 | 157
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Sad Puppies - Campaign to 'right' SF |
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Feb 11th 2015 | 159
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Holy shit at the 'unreliable field' theory |
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Feb 11th 2015 | 160
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"the books marked science fiction are not |
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Feb 11th 2015 | 161
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O_O |
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Feb 11th 2015 | 162
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There's a war going on... |
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Feb 11th 2015 | 163
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want to know how real shit is... peep the comments |
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Feb 12th 2015 | 164
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it is unsurprisingly scary that there are motherfuckers who |
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Feb 12th 2015 | 165
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scary as fuck |
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Feb 13th 2015 | 168
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mmmmmm... "reverse bigotry" |
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Feb 20th 2015 | 180
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some of my best friends... |
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Feb 26th 2015 | 185
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They are claiming a MAJOR VICTORY |
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Apr 05th 2015 | 211
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Yo Jemisin bodied a whole fucking genre in a review |
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Feb 12th 2015 | 166
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hot link! thanks for pointing this out n/m |
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Feb 13th 2015 | 167
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Love it. n/m |
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Feb 14th 2015 | 171
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lover her but wheres the link? |
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Feb 20th 2015 | 177
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Nice quote on fantasy and natural law |
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Feb 14th 2015 | 170
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shots fired at your liberal arts/soft science degrees |
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Feb 17th 2015 | 172
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og star trek writer bodies this cat |
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Feb 20th 2015 | 181
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listening to this 'cast make me not wanting white women... |
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Feb 19th 2015 | 174
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Nebula finalists are in |
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Feb 20th 2015 | 175
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ah thanks |
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Feb 20th 2015 | 176
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no problem... be sure to check the stuff under post #157 |
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Feb 20th 2015 | 178
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holy crap! Thnx |
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Mar 08th 2015 | 195
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PoC got 50% of the novelette nominees (links to the stories) |
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Feb 20th 2015 | 179
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Yo if Cixin Liu wins... |
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Mar 08th 2015 | 194
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Oh thanks! |
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Mar 08th 2015 | 196
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Malinda Lo goes in on reviewers perceptions of diversity |
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Feb 22nd 2015 | 182
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Charles Stross lays down a fucking gauntlet |
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Feb 25th 2015 | 183
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more Jemisin on race in Dragon Age |
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Feb 25th 2015 | 184
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Curious if you read Hyperion by Dan Simmons |
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Feb 26th 2015 | 186
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Nope, and I won't (random google fodder) |
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Feb 26th 2015 | 187
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Dude, how could you NOT want to read this? |
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Feb 27th 2015 | 188
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Hyperion is a good read |
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Jun 23rd 2015 | 221
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ghostwritten by Glenn Beck |
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Sep 12th 2015 | 233
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Alaya Dawn Johnson on diversity |
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Mar 02nd 2015 | 189
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On the "L" word |
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Mar 03rd 2015 | 190
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related - "Defining Science-Fiction" (link) |
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Mar 05th 2015 | 192
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I've had a dislike for the word |
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Mar 08th 2015 | 197
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for me, the only reason I care for the distinction is because |
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Mar 09th 2015 | 200
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Was on the radio last week talkiing about Octavia and Blk Sci-Fi: |
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Mar 03rd 2015 | 191
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http://octaviasbrood.com/ |
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Mar 09th 2015 | 198
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with that said why is the book in 'anarchism' on amazon? |
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Mar 09th 2015 | 199
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this shit is a hillarious anecdote |
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Mar 05th 2015 | 193
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Time has a good think piece on what sci-fi gets wrong (asimov herbert) |
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Mar 10th 2015 | 201
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did the author not read Dune? |
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Mar 20th 2015 | 206
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The Great Internet Debate Over Not Reading White Men |
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Mar 12th 2015 | 202
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Nnedi Okorafor & Sofia Somotar talkin' |
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Mar 17th 2015 | 203
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Good read |
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Mar 20th 2015 | 205
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it's interesting because they made me reconsider |
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Mar 20th 2015 | 207
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i think culture is the key here |
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Mar 20th 2015 | 209
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awesome thanks |
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Mar 20th 2015 | 210
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NPR Top 100 SF/Fantasy List |
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Mar 20th 2015 | 204
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Interesting piece on the Cyberpunk of now (link) |
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Mar 20th 2015 | 208
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Nnedi Okorafor: Why I dumped science for creative writing |
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Apr 05th 2015 | 212
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Octavia's Brood @ Red Emma's Bookstore in Baltimore, Maryland |
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Apr 08th 2015 | 213
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Google Hugo awards sad puppies |
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Apr 09th 2015 | 214
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RE: Google Hugo awards sad puppies |
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Jun 18th 2015 | 219
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Is Kindred Science Fiction? |
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May 03rd 2015 | 216
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absolutely |
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Jun 02nd 2015 | 217
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Kindred is speculative fantasy.... |
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Jun 02nd 2015 | 218
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Of course there's a Charleston link |
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Jun 28th 2015 | 222
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I can't watch Defiance anymore. All the shit that annoyed me |
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Jun 28th 2015 | 223
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So I'm watching the live stream of the hugo awards |
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Aug 22nd 2015 | 224
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Cixin Liu won Best Novel |
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Aug 23rd 2015 | 225
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Three Body Problem won!?!?! |
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Aug 23rd 2015 | 226
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Yoo, I just learned all about this Puppy Biz |
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Aug 24th 2015 | 227
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I think that there is this push to make the genre more "literary" |
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Aug 24th 2015 | 228
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No, its absolute horseshit |
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Aug 24th 2015 | 229
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In some regard I think it's a matter of what's popular in the genre |
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Sep 15th 2015 | 237
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up, i need more of this! ;) |
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Sep 12th 2015 | 231
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David Anthony Durham ',Acacia Trilogy' |
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Sep 12th 2015 | 232
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ferguson, speculative fiction and afro-futurism conference going on at p... |
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Sep 14th 2015 | 235
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Nettrice is on a panel right now. |
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Sep 14th 2015 | 236
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Was wondering whether to make a new post or just keep this one going |
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Sep 15th 2015 | 238
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Anyone read Liminal People? |
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Sep 18th 2015 | 239
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Cixin Liu's "The Dark Forest" |
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Sep 20th 2015 | 240
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Whites writing ethnics |
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Oct 14th 2015 | 242
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Sci-fi /.fantasy and historical memory |
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Oct 14th 2015 | 243
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RE: Nothing to add, but this post is exactly what I needed this AM. |
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Oct 15th 2015 | 244
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Will be on KPFK Pacifica talking about my book, Afrofuturism, etc |
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Oct 21st 2015 | 245
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don't think that's the link anymore chief |
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Oct 26th 2015 | 247
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That was the link that day to listen live: |
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Oct 27th 2015 | 248
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Is it racial (not racist) |
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Oct 26th 2015 | 246
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No more Lovecraft |
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Nov 11th 2015 | 249
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Holocaust denier makes bust for new Lovecraft award |
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Nov 15th 2015 | 251
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Utopia... does it mean anything to you? |
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Nov 12th 2015 | 250
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