A fen of colorchuckrunnerMay 15 2009, 20:55:12 UTC
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I'm 45 and I've been reading Science Fiction since I was 10. When I last bothered to check in the 1990's I had wracked up over 4,000 novels read. As a teen I read a novel a day through the week from 12 to 17, on the weekends I would roam over a 40 block area of downtown Philadelphia buying books from used book stores in the city's back alleys and unaircondintioned walk ups. In college my reading reduced to 3 novels a week, but I kept reading Scifi.
I remember the joy when I read "The Janus Syndrome" the first novel I read with a black protagonist: Kevin Tamarii. He even got the hot white girl.
To be dismissed by those who owe their income to me is infuriating.
Pallid swamp goblin auxiliary here wondering if anyone's organizing a branch or parallel effort over at DW. Also, the FOC_U icon above is amazing, as is terajjin's banner below.
To my knowledge no one is. While I stated this protest is for anyone's blog and is by no means limited to LJ, some may think that this is only an LJ event. I do know that there many members who have multiple accounts, LJ, Blogger, DW, Myspace, etc.
By all means, spread the word on the DW front and organize a parallel effort. If you need any help or have any ideas, please let me know.
Alas, idea of organizing parallel effort foundered on rl demands, but it looks like there are several of us who cross-posted on DW for foc_u today anyway.
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I'm 45 and I've been reading Science Fiction since I was 10. When I last bothered to check in the 1990's I had wracked up over 4,000 novels read. As a teen I read a novel a day through the week from 12 to 17, on the weekends I would roam over a 40 block area of downtown Philadelphia buying books from used book stores in the city's back alleys and unaircondintioned walk ups. In college my reading reduced to 3 novels a week, but I kept reading Scifi.
I remember the joy when I read "The Janus Syndrome" the first novel I read with a black protagonist: Kevin Tamarii. He even got the hot white girl.
To be dismissed by those who owe their income to me is infuriating.
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To my knowledge no one is. While I stated this protest is for anyone's blog and is by no means limited to LJ, some may think that this is only an LJ event. I do know that there many members who have multiple accounts, LJ, Blogger, DW, Myspace, etc.
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