Or rather one book presented in two very different ways. On the left, the US version; on the right, the UK version:


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"Ustopia is a word I made up by combining utopia and dystopia - the imagined perfect society and the opposite - because, in my view, each contains a latent version of the other... But any writer of ustopias has to answer three necessary questions: where is it, when is it, and - in relation to maps - what shape it is? For unless we readers can ( Read more... )

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Context.

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The line up for this year's Glastonbury has been announced. Poll time!

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These are just the headliners from the biggest four stages. I'm not typing everyone out!

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Since we do this every year around Hugos time:

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You may wish to reference this, then again, you might not.

There were a lot of options in yesterday's poll. Here is a simpler one picking up on a recurrign theme of the comments:

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You know the brand of fantasy written by Terry Brooks, David Eddings, Robert Jordan, George RR Martin, Robin Hobb, Steve Erikson, etc, etc? What do you call that?

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