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Khazd, on the book Freehold, by Michael Z. Williamson:

"...[T]he story went from a neat political sci-fi to a war sci-fi, staggered drunkenly back towards political issues, tripped back over the war then collapsed, sobbing, into a sci-fi drama."

To be fair, he claims to have been reading three other books concurrently and may have mixed them

So, every once in a while I take a look at my Interests, just to make sure I'm still interested in the same things. I still am, but it's the interests that nobody else shares that provoked this post. Apparently, nobody else on LJ is interested in the following ( Read more... )

Destination Moon is on YouTube!

Now I get to see why Heinlein groused about the Movie Industry rather than just take his word for it that they ignored much of his input!

holy crap you guys need to read Feed by M.T. Anderson holy crap.

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So! Miserably rainy and cold day, but it was good times nonetheless. This report is the most impartial, and I'm not just saying that because I can be seen from 0:14-0:17 in the accompanying video. Except for my face, which is obscured by multiple umbrellae (including my own ( Read more... )