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2007 Hugo Awards Announced [for science fiction fans]
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| 9/01/2007
Posted on 09/08/2007 7:27:49 AM PDT by sionnsar
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To: dragonblustar
Rainbows End?
Is it a gay tragedy?
Nope, a name of a retirement community in the book. However, there are few scattered hints that one of the characters
might be gay. Note that there are no straight-out references to any kind of sexuality, aside one incident of viewpoint character speculating on another character's few days of backsliding on learning to use a wearable interface resulting from accidental triggering of a "porn view" in
AR.
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09/09/2007 4:11:28 PM PDT
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MirrorField
(Just an opinion from atheist, minarchist and small-l libertarian.)
To: sionnsar
Is that the newest one? No matter, they’re always a good read. If you can’t find at least half a dozen really good stories in one of those anthologies, you just don’t like sci-fi. My only regret is that I don’t buy and read more full-length novels by some of those writers, who have a ton of good ideas - a short story is not always sufficient to fully explore a good concept.
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09/09/2007 4:22:48 PM PDT
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-YYZ-
(Strong like bull, smart like ox.)
To: FreeManWhoCan
Agreed on the latest 2-parter (”The Family Blood” was it called?) I thought it was really good, as you say the best of the episodes with the 2nd new Dr. Who. Martha’s starting to grow on me, too, although I miss Rose. I thought this season’s “Gridlock” was pretty good, too.
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09/09/2007 4:27:49 PM PDT
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-YYZ-
(Strong like bull, smart like ox.)
To: -YYZ-
I think it is. I've been collecting them for years, ever since I started reading science fiction again. Somehow they're the ones I usually wind up taking with me on flights.
I've been wanting to get back to the novels, but got caught up first with re-reading LOTR (40 years later) and then (30 years later) Donaldson's, um, indescribable Covenant trilogies (I'm almost to the finish line, hurray!), while waiting for the latest of SF-turned-fantasy writer George R.R. Martin's latest fantasy series. Then I'll be back to novels, whether new or revisiting my library downstairs.
Although I did get Red/Green/Blue Mars into the midst of this. (Not sure I cared for some of that, though.)
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09/09/2007 4:35:18 PM PDT
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sionnsar
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To: hc87
The only Vinge Ive read is A Fire Upon The Deep and I found it so so. I thought "A Deepness in The Sky" was much better than "A Fire Upon the Deep" - but I haven't read "Rainbow's End" yet.
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09/10/2007 9:22:58 AM PDT
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Mr. Jeeves
("Wise men don't need to debate; men who need to debate are not wise." -- Tao Te Ching)
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