I was up marking coursework till nearly 3am last night and now my head is full of wool and my neck feels simultaneously stiff and too wobbly. Today was running up and down stairs chasing more coursework, sending the students out to buy plastic folders and find me the hole punch because surely you're not submitting THAT? It's all in but one now,
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I've bought Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman for two boys now. Though not this one yet, hmm.
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Still, I know what I shall be rereading this weekend in between Other Things.
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He also, if you followed him in Interzone, wrote a short story about Lesbian Totalitarians, with 'work camps' for men, on which the comments at the time said, you can get away with that, but no one else could.
I read The Unconquered Country but I recall little other than a thing about counting in 'bunches' which now always pops into the top of my head when I see things about mathematical geniuses.
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'Alice Sheldon's Lesbian Totalitarian Story Magazine' or something.
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"O Happy Day". Which isn't so much about the lesbian totalitarians as it is about the gay men who are in charge of the work camps, which are only for straight men.
Also of note: the ass-babies story.
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> the ass-babies story.
Do I really need to know? Possibly not.
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And he does have a thing about biologically unlikely pregnancies, doesn't he?
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