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Competence is really attractive: H. Beam Piper’s Lord Kalvan of Otherwhere
Competence is really attractive: H. Beam Piper’s Lord Kalvan of Otherwhere
There’s a feminine kind of sentimentality which is most often seen in stories about True Love. And there’s a masculine kind of sentimentality which is most often seen in stories about Just War. There’s a moment near the beginning of Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen (1961) where a man charging into ...
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Bluejo's Journal — Piper's Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, Stevermer's When the King Comes Home, Brust's Agyar, Chiang's Stories of Your Life. In other news, doing research for ILE2, starting a roleplaying game, cooking a lot of gnocchi.

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