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Discussion of written science fiction and fantasy.
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How would you define "Urban Fantasy"?
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When you hear the term "Urban Fantasy", do you think of fantasy taking place in real-world cities or at least on earth, or is fantasy in imaginary cities on imaginary worlds (New Crobuzon, Ankh-Morpork, Swanwick's Babel etc.) also considered part of the genre?
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Girl Genius 10/6/08
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will soon be up. I think it was C. J. Cherryh who once said every scene must advance one of three things... plot, characterization, and I forget what the third one was. Setting, probably. All three are fabulous, two is a good idea, one is the bare minimum. In tomorrow's episode we see plot and characterization advancing... more »
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Ten Things That Annoy Me in Science Fiction
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On Oct 4, 10:43 am, Matthias Warkus <War...@students.uni-marburg.d e> wrote: ...I'm well aware that Iran is inhabited by Persians, who speak a language closely related to Armenian, which therefore belongs to the same family as German, Greek, and Sanskrit. That's why I mentioned _both_ pan-Islamism and pan-Arabism. Arabs have... more »
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Ten Things That Annoy Me in Science Fiction
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On Oct 3, 4:59 pm, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy ...Well, the Iran/Iraq war isn't a counterexample, although I'm sure there are many. That was Islamic Persians killing Islamic Arabs and vice versa. No Arab brother killing Arab brother there! John Savard
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Ten Things That Annoy Me in Science Fiction
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On Oct 3, 4:58 pm, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy ...Iraq had brutally invaded its neighbor Kuwait for no purpose except to steal its oil. The United States assisted Kuwait. Although a nonzero number of American soldiers fell in that conflict, at the time, due to strong diplomatic representations from various Middle Eastern countries, the... more »
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Tracking by David R. Palmer
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I will take no care to avoid spoilers in this report. By the time the third installment arrived, I had lost track of the first two installments, and by the time I got all three Analogs piled up beside the rocking chair, I was pretty much out of the mood, so it's only recently that I've read _Tracking_.... more »
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Ten Things That Annoy Me in Science Fiction
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...Less common, I'd say, but not dead. In my limited experience, at least. I know my nephew was overjoyed when he got to wash my father's mouth out with soap, but I'll admit that was at least ten years ago. And it'll never totally die as long as people still watch "A Christmas Story." "It was... soap... poisoning!"... more »
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Typographers... Gone... Wild! - Neptune Edition
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I've been attempting to read Jeffrey Carver's "Neptune Crossing", kindly provided free to one and all by the author. Alas, I've failed. The reason? Typography. Carver (or someone) chose to set off the alien sidekick's mental speech with triple slashes, embolden it, and center it. It certainly set it off. My mind slams out of WSoD the instant I run... more »
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For your consideration
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"Now that American science fiction, past its majority, is heading for the peaceful middle age of an established form, some of its earliest adherents feel as if they had suddenly grown long gray beards; there is nothing more pathetic, I suppose, than the look on the face of an old-guard fan who's waiting to say something about Stanton A. Coblentz,... more »
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Authors You've Outgrown
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I do mean old: Steve Hall used to ask about this back in the mid-1990s. One of the reasons I sometimes hesitate to reread old favourites is that I am not today the person I was 30 years ago and flaws that didn't matter to me then are not too glaring for me to ignore. A case in point; Poul Anderson's stylistic... more »
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