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• Trottelreiner commented on PSA: Please don't nominate the Laundry Files for a Best Series Hugo Award (this year)
  Actually I was trying to sneak in a little movie reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynY2begPzoM Though in Germany they changed the CIA guys to Swiss secret agents, and in the end they were sent to Zurich... Err, as for the little argumernt starting, err, that's for later. For a start, can we agree that Communism is an economical theory, and a lot of what's taught as "economy" is isomorphic to religion? The eschatology might differ somewhat, my favorite one is the interpretation of St. John Maynard, founder of the Holy High Keynesian Church, "in the long run we're all dead"....
• Greg Tingey commented on PSA: Please don't nominate the Laundry Files for a Best Series Hugo Award (this year)
  Communism is a religion It oppresses all the competing religion - check It has "holy books" which are full of wrong predictions & bullshit - check It kills millions in the name of the "holy word" - check It has factions & sects & heresies - check Do for starters?...
• Pigeon commented on PSA: Please don't nominate the Laundry Files for a Best Series Hugo Award (this year)
  All "-isms" are religions, people just try and pretend they're not....
• dpb commented on PSA: Please don't nominate the Laundry Files for a Best Series Hugo Award (this year)
  My efforts to convert people to Botulism have so far been unsuccessful, and our temples keep being shut down by the health inspectors.....
• mneme commented on PSA: Please don't nominate the Laundry Files for a Best Series Hugo Award (this year)
  I'm late to the party, but... I consider the fact that making/accepting tactical nominations for Best Series a positive factor of the way the award is constructed (and argued the same when I was on the subcommittee to create it; I consider the "volume" factor a definate negative factor, particularly since it needlessly rewards authors like Seanan who publish more shorter novels and free short stories online every year per series, over authors like Martin who publish one 250k+ wc doorstopper every 4 years or so; the stories are the point, not the package they're stored in). What it does...