It's been a bookish sort of 10-day vac. Yesterday I finished reading the new
biography of James Tiptree Jr., apparently written over ten years by one Julie Phillips. It shows. This was a beautifully researched, meticulously written, empathetic, insightful and generally socks-knocking-off piece of writing. It was also, weirdly enough, reviewed as a
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Then again I'm not so much wanting to write these days, so that's okay.
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everymoment, caught in a philosphical wossname.
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I think Scroob is right, with writing particularly it's probably a good thing to delay a bit. SF is a bit funny in that it has a solidly successful subset of the sort of Young Turk style of fizzing, explosive immature writer, but I suspect that says something about the maturity of the genre...
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