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For MLK Day: Watch Nichelle Nichols Talk About the Dr. King/Star Trek Connection "I think the important point is that this was a non-stereotypical role. The very first. That is tremendously..." on For MLK Day: Watch Nichelle Nichols Talk About the Dr. King/Star Trek Connection at Mon Jan 16, 2012 17:06pm
"I'd like to add my appreciation for the term "homeopathically good". Two things strike me about Dune,..." on In league with the future: Frank Herbert’s Dune at Wed Jan 12, 2011 16:22pm
"I teach this stuff for a living, and thus have some skin in the game. As a political scientist, rather..." on The next best thing to being there: Plato’s Republic at Wed Apr 14, 2010 18:26pm
"Piper mined history fairly regularly. Uller Uprising, which I first read a few years ago, was based on..." on “Yakking about who's civilized and who's not”: H. Beam Piper's Space Viking at Sat Apr 03, 2010 21:56pm
"Tolkien does hint at human-orc sex." on Entmoot Convenes to Discuss Same-Sex Marriage at Fri Apr 02, 2010 17:01pm
"Second person makes me think of that awful novel by Jay McInerney, perhaps the most forgettable of the..." on What do you think you should do?: Keith Roberts's Molly Zero at Thu Mar 25, 2010 11:14am
"London is sort of mythical, but across Europe, the weight of thousands of years of history (and historical..." on Fantasy and the need to remake our origin stories at Tue Mar 09, 2010 16:41pm
"Darkover has some truly complex sexual mores and practices. Telepaths in the towers are polyamorous...." on Telepathy and polyamory: Marion Zimmer Bradley’s The Forbidden Tower at Mon Mar 01, 2010 19:43pm
"In trying to follow the whole Darkover saga, it's quite easy, I've found, to get lost among the family..." on “In my own time and season”: Marion Zimmer Bradley’s The Shattered Chain and Thendara House at Fri Feb 26, 2010 09:40am
"Jo, it's interesting that his specific ethnic identity is carefully built up, and then not mentioned..." on Nasty, but brilliant: John Barnes’s Kaleidoscope Century at Fri Feb 26, 2010 07:49am
"Sorry for the double post. Ouch." on Nasty, but brilliant: John Barnes’s Kaleidoscope Century at Wed Feb 24, 2010 08:40am
"As I've pointed out in another thread, one thing of interest to me in this book is that the narrator..." on Nasty, but brilliant: John Barnes’s Kaleidoscope Century at Wed Feb 24, 2010 08:40am
"While I can understand the distaste for Kaleidoscope Century, I have to say that there are very few novels..." on Growing up in a space dystopia: John Barnes’s Orbital Resonance at Wed Feb 24, 2010 08:35am
"I really enjoyed Orbital Resonance, seeing it as a sort of riposte to the Heinlein juveniles that I read..." on Growing up in a space dystopia: John Barnes’s Orbital Resonance at Tue Feb 23, 2010 11:13am
<em>LotR</em> re-read: <em>Two Towers</em> III.9, “Flotsam and Jetsam” "What's most interesting to me about this chapter is the fact that, after having gone through horrors..." on LotR re-read: Two Towers III.9, “Flotsam and Jetsam” at Thu Sep 03, 2009 20:32pm
"I'd love to attend, but I'm staffing the Lit Track at that time. If I can shift my hours with anyone..." on Tor.com DragonCon Meetup! at Thu Sep 03, 2009 20:20pm
<em>LotR</em> re-read: <em>Two Towers</em> III.7, “Helm’s Deep” "It is important to remember that Tolkien had experience of battle himself, in the trenches during the..." on LotR re-read: Two Towers III.7, “Helm’s Deep” at Fri Jul 31, 2009 15:01pm
"Now, that would be a heck of a shirt (if it's in 5X)." on Tor.com Anniversary Giveaway #16: Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock t-shirt (and one book of your choice) at Mon Jul 20, 2009 15:02pm
On July 20th, 1969...by Teresa Nielsen Hayden "My favourite ex-wife had a more, ahem, New York response to the Challenger disaster. She was asked by..." on On July 20th, 1969...by Teresa Nielsen Hayden at Mon Jul 20, 2009 14:49pm
"Oh, very shiny." on Tor.com Anniversary Giveaway #3: 4-port little man USB hub from Thinkgeek at Mon Jul 20, 2009 14:44pm
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