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Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
They really should have named KCK "Missouri City", for symmetry if nothing else....
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Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
My brain is going in a very strange "LOTR meets CANTICLE FOR LEBOWITZ" direction, where an FTL-capable colony collapses, but there is a prophecy about a "gift from the stars" because an automated supply ship was launched by slower means...
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Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
There's actually a trope for that. Out of respect for your productivity, I will not link to the page, but there are plenty of examples, including an episodes of BABYLON 5 and the original GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY comic....
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Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
That's not only plausible, it's depressingly familiar. (It's happened to me at Heathrow. TWICE.)...
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Commented on Too Many Thoughts About Genre
Regarding genre: I'll believe that fantasy & science fiction have clear boundaries when someone gives me a set of rules that definitively classifies Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light as one or the other....
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Commented on Introducing Dead Lies Dreaming
Take all the time you need. I know from caregiver stress. On a personal note, I love that you know the term "competence porn". It's one of my favorite underrated storytelling concepts (along with "rescue fiction")....
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Commented on Crib Sheet: The Delirium Brief
Because Fritz Murnau tried to play a fast one with the Stoker estate in 1922. (It didn't work, but luckily one print of NOSFERATU survived the court-decreed destruction)...