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More questions than answers: Robert A. Heinlein’s The Stone Pillow
tor.com - 4/1/2009
More questions than answers: Robert A. Heinlein’s The Stone Pillow
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When you read a book that’s been so tremendously influential on the whole genre of SF and inspired a whole subgenre of its own, it’s hard to see it clearly. It’s hard to see what it was that seemed so wonderful when it was new that fans rushed to give it the Hugo and pros the Nebula. Even ...

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My posts this morning on Tor.com
Bluejo's Journal — Robert Heinlein's The Stone Pillow and Shakespeare's Robin of Sherwood on DVD. I hope you'll take them as seriously as they deserve.

Greetings of the Day
The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent. — There have been a number of news announcements, uniquely April-Firstian, that deserve to be mentioned together: Tor.com changes its name to a much more extreme version Suvudu reveals the cover to Terry Brooks's new novel Jo Walton review's Heinlein's The Stone Pillow George R.R. Martin's new novel coming in serial form Teh Grauniad goes Twitter-only ThinkGeek's Squeez Bacon Cheryl Morgan's P-Con report Google's AI Shelf Awareness drags out the "book bailout" wheeze that wasn't funny two months ...

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