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I think ethics is (are?) an integral theme of the book, so much so that I thought one quote would stand in adequately for that thread. I don’t know that it promotes one or more of the options I present, but it presents them and invites us to explore…
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(Quote) I think those two words show more insight into this book than anything I’ve thought about the entire time I read it and pondered my discussion questions. It pulls together two aspects I think are important to the book in a way I hadn’t consi…
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As usual, I’m a day late and a dollar short to this discussion. I didn’t enjoy o what we’ve read so far, and I also had flashbacks to ACH, which I didn’t have time to finish but which I found some meaning. I hope I’ll find something here.
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Discussion questions are up at https://www.ttrpbc.com/categories/96-%28january-2021%29-sleep-donation-by-karen-russell . Work this week has been a bear!
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I’ll have questions up in the next day or two.
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Paul Di Fillipo reviews the latest in the series. It doesn’t look like there are any spoilers for previous books. https://locusmag.com/2021/01/paul-di-filippo-reviews-the-evidence-by-christopher-priest/
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I knew I should have participated in NaNoWriMo.
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Can my selection be my own novel, which I haven’t written yet? It will give me impetus to write. ;) (Not a real suggestion.)
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I use Libby and her big brother Overdrive all the time.
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I’m in, also rolled a 2.
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This is exactly where I am in the series.
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(Quote) My introduction to the chiasmus was through ancient Hebrew poetry. (Quote) That makes complete sense.
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That prompts the question of whether all waves refract at the precise angle that makes for the fastest route. I’m a ham radio operator and know a little bit of practical wave theory, but Fermat is not something that makes any difference in that cont…
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I think structure matters on several ways. On the one hand, if we are not trained, by the academy or by culture, to recognize chiasmus, we are apt to miss something rhetorically intended for us. On the other hand, sometimes authors are not consciou…
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I saw the film when it first came out, and even with a few years’ distance it overwhelmed my sense of discovery of the story as a story. What the story did was to prompt me to think a lot about phenomenology - phenomenology of language, of time, o…
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I’m fine with that.
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For my part, this isn’t a problem. I read from a variety of formats, digital and print.
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This is not the same but close enough that I’ll comment. Probably because of this month’s selection, I recently bought the role playing game Dialect, which is about the changes and eventual death of an isolated population’s language. I had hoped to …
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Geeky is good.
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3 pts - C: Dangerous Visions / Again Dangerous Visions 2 pts - B: The Islanders / Dream Archipelago / The Evidence 1 pt - A: Dune (+ Dune Messiah, sounds like) I changed my order a bit based on others’ comments.
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(Quote) Traveller was my entrée into role playing. Who doesn’t live a game where your character can die before the end of character creation?
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I’m in for any of the choices, but here is my Ranked-Choice Ballot: 2 & 7 sound amazing. 9 I’ve been trying to read since The Great Eastern. 1 & 6 I read as a teenager and multiple times since. 4, 5, & 8 sound good. 3 I would be willi…
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I’m ready.
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I have never been to a con, so I won’t weigh in on that. I do play in several pbf games at the moment, and I’m running one. I’ve also run games at my home with friends. My friends and I have had conversations about the racism behind D&D racial …
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Here’s the unrolled thread, but it doesn’t get any of the interaction between Jemisin and Twitter commenters. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1105950917537513472.html
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Sounds like we don’t have anyone against it, so why don’t we make history by doing the same book twice?
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My first book was #25, Day of the Triffids.
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I don’t know why I didn’t think of this. I’ll be sure to consult this list in the future. I’m up for another pick if folks don’t want to do it twice. By the way, are we up to 95 or up to 96? Even though the short story and movie for December didn’…
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(Quote) Yes, that’s the one.
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(Quote) I assumed Piranesi was a woman for a long time. I don’t know why, maybe stereotypes about innocence?