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No catastrophes here: William Tenn’s Of Men and Monsters
tor.com - 27 days ago
No catastrophes here: William Tenn’s Of Men and Monsters
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The first word that comes to mind when I think of William Tenn is “wry.” He’s funny, he’s observant, he’s got a wonderful way of looking at things upside down, or putting two things together you’d never think of in the same universe, his stories are very different from each other, but you could ...

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Bluejo's Journal — Kay's Sarantine Mosaic, Brust's The Sun the Moon and the Stars, Tenn's Of Men and Monsters My general preference is that if you have something personal to me to say about the posts, say it here, but if it's relevant to the post please say it there. I'm linking here to make it easier to have the discussion there, not to have it here. It's easy to post on Tor.com, it takes two seconds to make an account and then you don't have to do the stupid verification, or if you like doing the verification, you don't have to bother making an account.

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