Dan Goodman
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Commented on Publishing: A Slice of Life
sf writers very good at predicting future political events? Things they've predicted includes the Soviet Union lasting for centuries. In the 1950s, British sf writers mostly took for granted that England would remain a major world power well into the...
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Commented on Crib Sheet: The Delirium Brief
related to werewolves, closet: I recall reading online a wiccan talk about "coming out of the broom closet."...
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Commented on Crib Sheet: The Delirium Brief
Werewolves: Doing a search for "queer werewolf stories" turns up a large number of results. I don't yet know how this compares with the numbers of heterosexual, bisexual, etc. stories. Also of possible interest: search for "species dysphoria" on Wikipedia....
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Commented on Crib Sheet: The Delirium Brief
There's probably another term for them in the UK: In the US, a bait car is a car which looks as if it's ripe to be stolen. However, the police are watching and waiting to pounce if someone does steal...
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Commented on Do my Homework
Kosher bacon. See first page of New York Times business section, October 1, 2018. Around now, not predicted that I know of: Deaf people using sign language on cellphones. Newspapers on paper becoming scarcer....