Russell Letson

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• Commented on Dread of Heinleinism
  Nearly twenty years ago, I reviewed The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein, which includes "They," "'All You Zombies–'," and "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathon Hoag." My conclusion then was, "Probably the best reason for the existence of this volume is...
• Commented on Dread of Heinleinism
  Niggles, Charlie, but neatness counts. The baby boom didn't get rolling until after the end of the war--I was born in early 1945, and my school cohort was about 60% the size of my sister's (b. 1947). It was returning...
• Commented on The Curse of Laundry
  My iggerent brain forgot to specify "terminal 'e'." Some days nothing goes right....
• Commented on The Curse of Laundry
  My iggerent fingerz think there's an "e" in "metaphor." No number of proof-passes seems to be sufficient....
• Commented on The Curse of Laundry
  I'm more or less a professional reader, and I confess that short of some glaring error like putting London next-door to Reykjavik or conflating Lithuanians with Germans or having spacecraft go whoosh-vroom in vacuum*, I don't sweat the small stuff,...
• Commented on Some thoughts on turning 50
  Don't worry about that whatzit, the word-thing. You know, the where you can't, um, make your brain, uh, oh shit--re-something. Retread? No. Oh, remember. Yeah. It only gets--more badder? Less gooder? Well, you know what I mean....
• Commented on Some thoughts on turning 50
  First, happy fiftieth, etc. Long may you wave. From the prospect of a couple decades along, I'd agree with Dick Bruere @7 and several subsequent geezers that at least some grumpiness is rooted in loss of patience with that "same...
• Commented on Not a Manifesto
  Writer's gonna write what a writer needs to write, for whatever reason. Time to railroad, etc. But. I'm not sure what's so new here, beyond particular writers'/commentators' own takes on and feels for what is engaging in the available workspace....