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    Shortlist for Prestigious UK Scifi Book Award Announced

    Paul Auster Finally Getting Recognition As A Science Fiction Author?
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    Image of MightyCow MightyCow
    03/18/09

    In reply to Shortlist for Prestigious UK Scifi Book Award Announced
    I've read one Sherri S. Tepper novel and it came off as a thinly veiled attack against religion. I'm an atheist, but I wasn't entertained. If you have an ax to grind, don't do it disguised as a novel.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    03/18/09

    @MightyCow: All the books of hers I've read are not-at-all veiled attacks on men. I'm a woman and a feminist, but I wasn't entertained. Her axes must be darn sharp by now.
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    Image of Zidel333 Zidel333
    03/18/09

    In reply to Shortlist for Prestigious UK Scifi Book Award Announced
    OK, pelt me now, but I think Stephenson is just OK. Working my way through the Baroque Cycle, and I'm just heh about it.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/18/09

    @Zidel333: Go put that down and go read Cryptonomican and Snow Crash right now! And then read Anathem! I honestly thought that Stephenson mildly derailed somewhat with the Baroque Cycle, esp. after the first book. Anathem redeemed him in my book.
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    Image of Zidel333 Zidel333
    03/18/09

    @crashedpc: Really? I'm kinda relieved because the blogosphere is like "Stephenson is omigosh amazing!" and just wasn't seeing it with the Baroque Cycle. I'll keep reading now, although I was certainly tempted to just give up before.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    03/18/09

    @Zidel333: Read Snow Crash now. Or, maybe you could wait till tomorrow. But this week for sure.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/18/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: As much as I still enjoy Snow Crash it may not have aged very well. It was originally conceived as a parody of the cyberpunk movement; but in the end, at least in my humble opinion, managed to surpass many of those sorts of novels. Still, it feels very much like a 1990s cyberpunk book.


    Stephenson is a tough sell even to the most over-educated rabid SF fans. I'm a huge admirer of his work but wouldn't fault anyone who just can't get into it.

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    Image of 4ndreVV 4ndreVV
    03/18/09

    In reply to Shortlist for Prestigious UK Scifi Book Award Announced
    ANATHEM--the ACC Award would be the gravy on top of the mashed potatoes of its appearance in my dissertation-in-progress...
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/18/09

    @4ndreVV: Stephenson's exclusion from this years Nebula nomination is a crime. If doesn't get nominated for a Hugo, I will become VERY CRANKY.


    What field is your dissertation in?

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    Image of ZephyrMourne ZephyrMourne
    03/18/09

    In reply to Shortlist for Prestigious UK Scifi Book Award Announced
    'Anathem' was excellent. I really want to read 'Song of Time,' but even for a junkie like me, approx. $70 U.S. is just too much, even for a 1st edition hardcover, award nominations not withstanding.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/18/09

    @ZephyrMourne: [www.abebooks.com]


    I hope this link works, but at least gives you an idea of the price...

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/18/09

    @crashedpc: Shipping from the UK is quite expensive, like a zillion semolians.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/18/09

    @Grey_Area: *hand waving* pish posh, I just got The List of Polity from abebooks for like, 9 bucks including shipping, and that was from the UK!
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    03/18/09

    In reply to Shortlist for Prestigious UK Scifi Book Award Announced
    I was reading the wikipedia page on Sheri Tepper, and it turns out she worked most of her adult life at Planned Parenthood - where she wrote a series of pamphlets that sound incredibly awesome. Now I want to get my hands on Tepper's Planned Parenthood pamphlets. Just check out their titles: * "The People Know", 1968


    * "The Perils of Puberty", 1974


    * "The Problem with Puberty", 1976


    * "This Is You", 1977


    * "So Your Happily Ever After Isn't, 1977


    * "The Great Orgasm Robbery", 1977


    * "So You Don't Want To Be A Sex Object", 1978

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/18/09

    @Annalee Newitz: Those are some mighty fine titles. If you track any of those pamphlets down you'll contrive a way to post about it, right?
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/18/09

    @Grey_Area: I wonder if they were all destroyed in the Great Pamphlet Burning of 1979.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/18/09

    @crashedpc: Oh hush, you!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/18/09

    In reply to Shortlist for Prestigious UK Scifi Book Award Announced
    I'm embarrassed to admit that I've only read one of these, albeit three times.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/18/09

    In reply to Shortlist for Prestigious UK Scifi Book Award Announced
    Anathem? House of Suns? I... I don't know which one I want to win! *explodes*
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    03/18/09

    @crashedpc: Anathem has pretty much been done before and I personally wouldn't say that it is Stephenson's best work. I think that House of Suns should win this one, dontchoo?
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    03/18/09

    @Tarpaulin: I say we give it to the guy who gives me hookers n crack.
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    Image of TrueCrime TrueCrime
    02/16/09

    In reply to Paul Auster Finally Getting Recognition As A Science Fiction Author?
    Depends on the ever-fluctuating definition of Science Fiction, I guess. Wasn't the Civil War in Man in the Dark just a framing device, one of his story within two other story things?


    I could see In the Country of Last Things, maybe Mr. Vertigo as Sci Fi, but it's a stretch.

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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    02/16/09

    In reply to Paul Auster Finally Getting Recognition As A Science Fiction Author?
    I'm sure Auster will be thrilled by the news.
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    Image of Moff Moff
    02/16/09

    In reply to Paul Auster Finally Getting Recognition As A Science Fiction Author?
    Could be ausome. Or could be auful.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    02/16/09

    @Moff: It's aubvious you get auf by making terrible puns.
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