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Announcing the 2011 Hugo Award Winners! "I find it far more hilarious that in the comic category a comic has won two years in a row that is nearly..." on Announcing the 2011 Hugo Award Winners! at Sun Aug 21, 2011 02:30am
Hugo Nominees: 1996 "Yeah, the real implications of the Toy Story movies taken at face value are pretty harsh." on Hugo Nominees: 1996 at Sun Aug 14, 2011 14:06pm
Hugo Nominees: 1996 "Chaga feels like a great set-up that stopped right before anything interesting happened. There's a sequel..." on Hugo Nominees: 1996 at Sun Aug 14, 2011 12:57pm
Hugo Nominees: 1996 "Jo is spot on with the Diamond Age, a book that manages to be brilliant despite one of the weakest endings..." on Hugo Nominees: 1996 at Sun Aug 14, 2011 12:38pm
Hugo Nominees: 1993 "From the Hugo list Varley's novel is the one that I would have given the Hugo to, with the Vinge a..." on Hugo Nominees: 1993 at Sun Jul 24, 2011 10:07am
Hugo Nominees: 1992 "JohnArkansawyer@58: Oh yeah, Earth Made of Glass is also brilliant, but in an entirely different way..." on Hugo Nominees: 1992 at Wed Jul 20, 2011 01:48am
Snappy dialogue, intrigue, interstellar shenanigans: Jane Emerson (Doris Egan)’s <em>City of Diamond</em> "The ending is extremely unsatisfying. It's too much part of an ongoing story and despite really like..." on Snappy dialogue, intrigue, interstellar shenanigans: Jane Emerson (Doris Egan)’s City of Diamond at Tue Jul 19, 2011 17:41pm
Penis of Tomorrow: Will We Grow Artificial Penises? "As I grow older I realize the stuff I want to have replacements for the most are eyes and teeth (there..." on Penis of Tomorrow: Will We Grow Artificial Penises? at Sat Jul 16, 2011 02:19am
"While I bought the book a few years ago, I only read it now because of your review here (which I recently..." on “Locked in our separate skulls”: Raphael Carter’s The Fortunate Fall at Thu Jul 14, 2011 14:34pm
Hugo Nominees: 1991 "One of the years with an excellent novel list, thought I would have preferred the Bear or the Brin (Earth..." on Hugo Nominees: 1991 at Sun Jul 10, 2011 10:26am
Reimagining the Laws of Physics: Greg Egan’s <em>The Clockwork Rocket</em> "I admit it sometimes requires a little more work to understand than your usual SF, but it's not the same..." on Reimagining the Laws of Physics: Greg Egan’s The Clockwork Rocket at Sat Jul 09, 2011 14:23pm
Reimagining the Laws of Physics: Greg Egan’s <em>The Clockwork Rocket</em> "I always a little bit non-plussed when I hear comments like 3. that Egan writes flat characters, which..." on Reimagining the Laws of Physics: Greg Egan’s The Clockwork Rocket at Fri Jul 08, 2011 12:46pm
Hugo Nominees: 1990 "How distracting are those elements in Ilium/Olympos, or are they even there? I've planned to read those..." on Hugo Nominees: 1990 at Sun Jul 03, 2011 16:23pm
Hugo Nominees: 1990 "I was trying to be clever, but alas this is hard to convey merely via text, so my pardon. This has..." on Hugo Nominees: 1990 at Sun Jul 03, 2011 13:58pm
Hugo Nominees: 1990 "I gather you didn't read his introduction to the story The Ninth of Av in his collection Worlds Enough..." on Hugo Nominees: 1990 at Sun Jul 03, 2011 13:32pm
Hugo Nominees: 1990 "As for the sex-and-death thing, I think it's because it's so obvious, especially in the horror genre,..." on Hugo Nominees: 1990 at Sun Jul 03, 2011 13:17pm
Hugo Nominees: 1990 "Funny about Hyperion, I read the sequel first, and after that I was disappointed by the first book,..." on Hugo Nominees: 1990 at Sun Jul 03, 2011 12:13pm
Fiction Affliction: Diagnosing July Releases in Science Fiction "it's in second-person again, see http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/06/rule-34-reviews-contd.html..." on Fiction Affliction: Diagnosing July Releases in Science Fiction at Tue Jun 28, 2011 17:00pm
Hugo Nominees: 1989 "I disagree that his means treating them like objects, but I think we've derailed the threat long enough..." on Hugo Nominees: 1989 at Mon Jun 27, 2011 16:22pm
Hugo Nominees: 1989 "You're missing the point, I said you could have easily exchaged it with any kind of people, because people..." on Hugo Nominees: 1989 at Mon Jun 27, 2011 16:07pm
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