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Comment on In The Grim Darkness Of The Far Future … by William Burns

William Burns — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:18:45 +0000

Is this article online anywhere now that Vector is down?

Comment on Short Story Club Post-Mortem by The Key, 3 December, 2010 « The World SF Blog

The Key, 3 December, 2010 « The World SF Blog — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 04:58:38 +0000

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Comment on Chasing the Links by The Key, 1 December, 2010 « The World SF Blog

The Key, 1 December, 2010 « The World SF Blog — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 04:46:44 +0000

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Comment on Submissions for the 2013 Clarke Award by nina allan

nina allan — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:04:47 +0000

Interesting guesses, Tony – though from my own reading of the first ‘book’, Wool has been drastically overhyped. For the judges’ picks, I’m going with Pure, Dark Eden, Intrusion, Jack Glass, 2312 and Alif the Unseen. My own preferred picks and additional thoughts are now live at my blog.

Comment on Submissions for the 2013 Clarke Award by tonykeen46

tonykeen46 — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 08:45:31 +0000

Kudos to SFX for the words “this is not a long-list” – that is too often forgotten.

I’d be astonished if Empty Space didn’t make the shortlist, but then I was astonished when The Islanders didn’t make the list last year. Apart from that, I’d guess 2312, Angelmaker, Boneshaker, Dark Eden and Wool.

Comment on Three Reviews by GRACELING and comfy “feminism” for men | Requires Only That You Hate

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:46:34 +0000

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Comment on SF Masterclass 2013 by Šonedēļ internetā. 25 « Lasītājas piezīmes

Šonedēļ internetā. 25 « Lasītājas piezīmes — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 09:44:38 +0000

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Comment on vN by Madeline Ashby by kamo

kamo — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 01:08:48 +0000

Pretty much bang on. “Flawed but interesting” is right. Lots of obvious parallels to The Wind Up Girl. Amy is a great protagonist and there are so many neat ideas here, but once I’d finished reading it and managed to actually think lots of little things started to nag at me. It felt a bit like a cat toying with an injured mouse, as soon as it gets bored it moves on to the next thing leaving its previous amusement to crawl off under a cupboard and die, which means it’ll eventually rot and stink out the whole kitchen.

Example – The ‘Japanese’ aspects make me very uneasy for a number of reasons. I think in sum they fall into flat out Orientalism and quite specifically invoke the spectre of the Comfort Women, which isn’t something you can play with and drop when you get distracted by another shiny bauble. Lots of cool references =/= depth.

That said, there’s enough about this to make me look forward to the sequel, while acknowledging that it also has quite a lot of work to do.

Comment on vN by Madeline Ashby by BSFA Review – Vector #271 « Everything Is Nice

BSFA Review – Vector #271 « Everything Is Nice — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 10:21:14 +0000

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Comment on Vector 271 by Vector 271 « Panglossian Hubris

Vector 271 « Panglossian Hubris — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:49:27 +0000

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