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[jaylake]

3 to 3: Orycon 2013 interview with Jay Lake - In which Camille Alexa interviews me.

The Church of the Brass Messiah - Hah!

Amazon to deliver by drone? Don't believe the hype - Jeff Bezos's 'plan' for drone deliveries is little more than a publicity stunt - timed for the biggest online shopping day of the year.

Compulsory Monogamy in The Hunger

Comments

[mmegaera]

My first thought on seeing the Amazon drone story was to look at my calendar to make sure it wasn't April 1st.

[jaylake]

Mine, too, actually.

[scarlettina]

Interesting article about The Hunger Games' relationship dynamics. On the one hand, it's an an interesting thought experiment. On the other hand, the fact that the article's author hasn't read the books (evidenced by her remark that she doesn't know how it ends) tends to provoke skepticism in me about the quality of her scholarship and her thought process, regardless of whether or not her point is an interesting one.

As for whether or not a polyamorous relationship would ever have made it to a book or film, I'm not so sure about that. At the end of Jim Hines' Libriomancer, one of the characters proposes a polyamorous relationship that all the characters seem willing to explore, and that seemed to make it into print just fine. I'm about to start the next book, Codex Born, to see how it turns out. (And let's not forget all that Heinlein stuff lo these many years ago.) If you mean to suggest that it would never have made it into a YA title--which is how The Hunger Games was published--maybe that's true. Relationship tension is