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Commented on A fistful of tropes
Not exactly a trope, but what about the self-help book, or something like a story hidden in a manual? Exchange of letters, either love letters or some historical mystery? Speaking about collages - cyberpunk (retro-classical), or John-Brunner-like mixtures of story...
Commented on Empire Games (and Merchant Princes): the inevitable spoiler thread!
Late to the party, but ... Great ending for a great series, I really enoyed "Invisible Sun". I second/third the comments about the German parts - some of the scenary description (like the colour of police cars) can be explained...
Commented on The unspeakable truth
The bitter thing is that a right-shifting of the political discourse seems to happen all over Europe - true Fins and Swedendemocrats, anti-immigration policy in Denmark, AfD in parliaments in German states, with up to 25% of the vote (and...
Commented on A game of consequences
Three words: Socialism in space! No, really: while reading the blog entry I waited for this to come up; could be bring together the positive sides of techno- and bureaucracy with some sort of societal commitment/ideology. (What is "gemeinschaft" in...
Commented on Towards a taxonomy of cliches in Space Opera
Would Le Guins Hainish world count as (humanistic, down-to-earth (pun intended)) space opera? If not, why not? Not enough interest in hard science? Wrong tonality?...
Commented on Fantasy shibboleths
Re: cultural inertia and dwindling magic: Zen Chos 'Sorcerer to the crown' comes to mind - even if the reason for a loss of magic in Britain is found (and somewhat resolved) in the story....
Commented on 21st Century: a complaint
Problem with C21? Everybody keeps forgetting it's this new type of interactive generative fiction. Very artsy, but if you don't interact and let it run without coherent input, the outcome is somewhat random....

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JohnS commented on A fistful of tropes
"Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed - in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical – and when facts are irrefutable...
Pigeon commented on A fistful of tropes
...though it has to be said that Friedrich Schiller put it much more neatly :)...
ilya187 commented on A fistful of tropes
Friedrich Schiller's quote merely says that stupidity is impervious. He did not indicate just how dangerous it is. Dietrich Bonhoeffer made that point very clear....
Greg Tingey commented on A fistful of tropes
Ilya & others ... Asimov - wrote a whole novel on this { "The Gods Themselves" } From a Schilller quote, which translate as: *Against stupidity, the Gods themselves, contend in vain"...
Heteromeles commented on A fistful of tropes
RE: Trumpian bench trial for civil fraud. When I first posted, I was listening to some news report that went on at length how unusual it was that the judge ruled from the bench blah blah blah. I wasn't paying much attention and assumed the reported knew what they were talking about, because it was a big station that normally fact checked. When the station later corrected the report with a lawyer interview, I did a head slap because I've been involved in civil environmental suits on the plaintiff's side, and I needed to correct my account here. So yes,...

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)

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