really this technique looks good for pranks, but all the real scary stuff can be accomplished with firesheep. I already use HTTPS myself on all the sites I login to (and care about) due to that extension.
]]>Now that self-publishing isn't just a scam to milk money from aspiring authors I think there probably is some room for it to become semi-pro. Though it might be more interesting for novella-length nonfiction.
]]>but a fan giving feedback is obviously no copy-editor. I wonder if we'll see freelance copyeditors put up their shingle. Seems like there are plenty of english majors on summer break who could've fixed the sorts of problems the reviewer found..
]]>There is some interesting stuff to plumb here: for hundreds of years the tallest building in the world was the pyramids of Giza. That would've changed how you see the world. But whats missing from Middle Earth is any hint of greater things to come.
The big difference from a dystopian fiction I suppose is the POV of the reader: 1984 hints of things having been better, but it was better back in 1949. It empowers the reader.
]]>On the otherhand, I'd say much of dystopic scifi isn't so much about thinking about how great things used to be, its more about pointing contemporary problems. So eg 1984 urges us (and the 1940s public) to stand against totalitarian regimes.
Of course there are plenty example of forward-looking 'progressive' fantasy: Rowling and Pratchett are both examples of this. Discworld in particular is about a society in transition.
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