Daily Archives: March 17, 2011
One For the Dog Lovers
Posted on March 17, 2011 10 Comments
Don’t say I never do anything for you guys. And there’s even green for St. Pat’s.
Reader Request Week #7: Unruly Fans
Posted on March 17, 2011 46 Comments
Kenneth B asks: Have your experiences with SF Fandom been mostly positive? Negative? Some mix of the two? The question was prompted by my recent re-reading of Harlan Ellison’s essay “Xenogenesis,” wherein he describes some of the indignities he and other SF writers have suffered at the hands of fans. (The worst anecdote: a fan […]
Reader Request Week 2011 #6: Sociopathic Corporations
Posted on March 17, 2011 138 Comments
Arrow Quivershaft asks: How can we justify treating multinational corporations as people, despite the fact that most of them act like clinical sociopaths in general action? Well, the FCC v. AT&T ruling suggests that in fact there’s a very long way to go before we do in fact treat them as people, so I’m not […]
The Big Idea: M.J. Locke
Posted on March 17, 2011 11 Comments
M.J. Locke is riding a wave with Up Against It, including a starred review in Publishers Weekly (“Compulsively readable and packed with challenging ideas… this smart, satisfying hard SF adventure celebrates human resilience”) and the sort of fellow author praise most authors would kill for (see the George RR Martin blurb right there on the […]
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