Alexx Kay
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Commented on Pushing it back
James Hogan's Inherit the Stars features an ancient human(-ish) civilization whoae first evidence is discovered on the moon. Particularly notable for this discussion is the epilogue, which features a junior archeologist bringing his boss a mysterious metal artifact. The reader...
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Commented on Pass or Fail
Regarding whether women write men better than men write women, a hypothesis: Under patriarchy, a man is generally able to ignore women entirely without suffering any obvious downsides. Women, conversely, have to pay attention to men constantly, as threats, as...
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Commented on Shrinking the world
One of Alan Moore's ancestors (lightly fictionalized in Jerusalem) circa 1889 was regularly walking between London and Northampton for work, approximately 60 miles!...
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Commented on Three pieces of news about the Laundry Files (UPDATED!)
There was a Jekyll & Hyde TV series a few years back that had Richard E. Grant as the head of a British secret service division called MI:O (for "other") with the remit of keeping the supernatural from bothering people....
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Commented on "I doubt me an it be commercial."
Not just fiction. I'm part of a community of on-line Alan Moore scholars whose work is utterly non-commercial....
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Commented on Spoiler Thread
Possible typo: a reference to "out tracking system", which really seemed like it should be "our"....
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Commented on What's The Future For Virtual Reality Movies?
"Sleep No More" originally ran in Boston, a coproduction of Punchdrunk, an experimental London group and the ART. After a hugely successful Boston run (which I saw several times), it moved to NYC, where it seems to have become a...
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Commented on Another deceptively simple question
"...or a shared universe of story -- say, two hundred fifty writers, artists, editors and other members of a narrative production team working together for five years on a mutually consistent and satisfying narrative universe. It might be that there...
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Commented on Crib Sheet: 419/Rule 34
"You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alive ..." I don't know if that's a misquote or a deliberate tweak, but either way it's a great image....
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Commented on Crib Sheet: The Fuller Memorandum
It was quite common, and remains so to some degree. I personally refer to it as "Reichenbach Syndrome". I've read claims about both Doyle and Baum that claim that they really would have preferred to write other material. Sadly, despite...