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One Of Those Questions I Wish SF Geeks Would Simply Get Over
whatever.scalzi.com - 18 days ago
One Of Those Questions I Wish SF Geeks Would Simply Get Over
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It’s the one where SF geeks wring their hands over mainstream acceptance of their favorite genre. Please, please, please: Stop. Points: 1. When the goddamned President of the United States makes Vulcan salutes and is photographed quite unselfconsciously whipping a lightsaber about on the ...

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Bibliophile Stalker:  November 3, 2009 Links and Plugs

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November 3, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker — ... Robot Books on Books more popular than games on the iPhone? Grasping the Wind on Inside the Blogosphere: Best Book Endings in the Genre. Megan Crewe on Story Psych: What Makes a Good Story (Part 3). Kassia Krozser on A (Probably Naive) Attempt to Move the DRM Conversation Forward. Angela Slatter on Howling into the Void. Rachelle Gardner on Writing a First Draft. John Scalzi on One Of Those Questions I Wish SF Geeks Would Simply Get Over. Pimp My Novel on We Regret to Inform ...

SF Tidbits for 11/3/09
SF Signal — ... (via Fabio Fernandes) David Steffen interviews Jeremy C. Shipp.News Wheel of Time eBook Publishing Schedule. Don Ivan Punchatz, Fantasy Illustrator, Dies at 73. Kill Brian Keene on Your Blog Day. Articles Rich Horton's Summary: Fictitious Force, 2009. Angry Robot Books on Books more popular than games on the iPhone? John Scalzi on One Of Those Questions I Wish SF Geeks Would Simply Get Over. 11 Remarkable Robots ...

Crying Nerd Babies
The Crotchety Old Fan — ... It has also served to illustrate that a goodly percentage of the blogosphere still perceives the partisans of genre as nerds.  This despite the supposed “win” of genre fiction over the mainstream, as was so eloquently and humorously pointed out yesterday by John Scalzi here.  (Note that Scalzi uses the word geek in its now widely accepted non-pejorative sense.  Not Nerd.) ...

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