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Comment on Songs of the Dying Earth by Scott Laz

Scott Laz — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:47:55 +0000

Quick correction: Vance’s entire ouevre was recently brought back into print (if ebooks qualify as print).

Comment on Songs of the Dying Earth by iansales

iansales — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:30:44 +0000

I understood the book was marketed as a celebration of Vance’s creation, rather than simply a bunch of authors wallowing in something they remembered from 40 years previously.

Comment on Songs of the Dying Earth by Paul Weimer (@PrinceJvstin)

Paul Weimer (@PrinceJvstin) — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:17:12 +0000

Oh I think the authors had a blast writing these stories.

I think “Reaction” is a more general and useful word to describe these stories, since they are all over the map.

As far as an exercise in nostalgia…that is precisely the point of a volume like this.

Comment on 12-question book meme by iansales

iansales — Sat, 18 May 2013 17:59:33 +0000

It’s the Culture (Iain M Banks), Eight Worlds (John Varley), Hainish Cycle (LeGuin), Jurisdiction (Susan R Matthews), Alliance-Union (Cherryh), Dumarest saga (EC Tubb).

Comment on 12-question book meme by tam

tam — Sat, 18 May 2013 17:36:40 +0000

Can you put the author names in #5?

Comment on 12-question book meme by robertday154

robertday154 — Sat, 18 May 2013 14:05:40 +0000

The Dune Encyclopaedia is rare, then? I’ll look after my copy rather more, then.

You ask why China Miéville is “… the poster boy for British genre fiction”. Isn’t the clue in the phrase you’ve used? He’s a writer (which is pretty cool), he’s metropolitan, he’s leftist and he looks cool (at least, I’m told, to those to whom that sort of thing matters). You can’t tell what a writer’s books are like when you look at a poster.

Comment on Recent notable reading by Best of 2012 – A Son of the Rock -- Jack Deighton

Best of 2012 – A Son of the Rock -- Jack Deighton — Sat, 11 May 2013 17:51:19 +0000

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Comment on In the deepest water by In an octopus’s garden | It Doesn't Have To Be Right...

In an octopus’s garden | It Doesn't Have To Be Right... — Fri, 10 May 2013 09:20:30 +0000

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Comment on The future we used to have, part 16 by Björn Lindström

Björn Lindström — Mon, 06 May 2013 21:23:45 +0000

I saw this clip if a MIG-19 rocket-assisted take-off and thought of you.

Comment on The future we used to have, part 16 by Martin McGrath

Martin McGrath — Mon, 06 May 2013 19:14:19 +0000

I had never seen the Convair Sea Dart before. I love the idea that they, very briefly, thought of shoving those into submarines to launch by catapult. The Cold War… almost no idea too far off the wall.