
Fred451
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Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
Reverting for a moment to the original topic, as I've gotten further into Alec Nevala-Lee's excellent Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction it's just gotten more and...
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Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
I don't remember much about Slan, and I'm not going back into that cesspool again, thank you very much, but there's a further aspect to consider. From what I read at the time in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
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Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
Halfway through the book, and enjoying it greatly. As a minor point, the old folk etymology for the insulting V sign comes up, that it goes back to Agincourt and archers showing they still had their index and middle fingers....
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Commented on Dread of Heinleinism
John Clute makes some interesting, and controversial, claims about Heinlein in his review of "We, the Living," Heinlein's long unpublished first novel. I haven't read it since it came out, and it appeared in Clute's column for what was then...
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Commented on Today is officially cancelled
A few years ago I was in a bookstore in Pleasantville, New York, and came across a section of local authors. David Hartwell wasn't represented, which seemed odd, since he lived in Pleasantville, but when I asked, they'd never heard...
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Commented on Crib Sheet: The Apocalypse Codex
I'm a huge fan of the Laundry books, and have read them all at least twice. So if I second-guess your narrative strategy, please take it as friendly and harmlessly well-meant, if possibly annoying. It is necessary to explain why...
