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    simonbarsinister: I like this new literature redone with monkees meme. Call me BoBo. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my p... more »
    HiramBear: He became an archangel Michael at the end, but I don't think it was implied that he had been an angel all along. Whether assuming the existence of an ... more »
    screemname: Robot nannies, Obama's American government as nanny, either way humans will become so lazy to do anything for themselves we are doomed to let someone ... more »
    braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: Am I imagining the wrong end to Stranger? I thought it was revealed at the end that he was the archangel Michael. Doesn't that automatically make it... more »
    The Curse of Millhaven: Wouldn't a lot of novels switch genres if you changed someone's background? Just some mention that Mr. Darcy was so perfect because he had been blesse... more »
    Dr Emilio Lizardo: And it could have been historical fiction if Michael Valentine Smith was born into the house of Tudor. What's the f'ing point? more »
    gorehound: great book.i own a first edition in my archive. more »
    Grey_Area: Heinlein's work can really annoy me but he had some great quotes: "To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy... more »
    disatess: why is there in edited version of this great book. more »
    ManchuCandidate: If Qui-Gon Jinn had less tolerance: Jar Jar: Me likey youuuuuu!!! Qui-Gon Jinn: What the?? Jar Jar: Oh yah, I talka funny. Look at me dancy! Qui-G... more »
    RexMaximus: Pointless blog post. So what if Smith knocked up a couple (several?) women? Changing that wouldn't make the book much shorter or alter the plot or the... more »
    atrus123: You know, now that I think of it, if Tolkien had written the Hobbit with monkeys instead of hobbits, it would have been a very different book! more »
    Anekanta - Go Play!: Yeah, I guess. But so what? Why doesn't she shut up and write her own SF novel? Then she can set up the world the way she thinks would be most real... more »
    Pope John Peeps II: She also points out it could be a fantasy book, without changing the plot, if "Michael Valentine Smith had been raised by wizards instead of Martians.... more »
    txtphile: Ahem. Wise Girl Malthusian Lozenges. Effective birth control doesn't mean people actually use it. more »
  • #books

    The Simple Technology That Could Make Heinlein's Classic Novel Into A Novella

    At 220,000 words, Heinlein's Stranger In A Strange Land is one of the most famous doorstoppers in science-fiction history. (There's an edited version, which loses about 60,000 words.) Now a biologist has explained it could be much shorter. More »
  • #scifisagas

    7 Reasons Why Scifi Book Series Outstay Their Welcomes