supergee: (actual)
2024-11-28 06:17 am
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Giving

From a post that Facebook disappeared before I could comment, about why The Giving Tree is a controversial book and gifted & talented kids often dislike it.

The Giving Tree is about “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” Gifted & talented are often told that we must give a lot and take as little as possible.
supergee: (computer fox)
2022-10-27 06:28 am
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Wordwooze

The strange world of high-speed semi-automated genre fiction, as predicted by Fritz Leiber in The Silver Eggheads
supergee: (nebula)
2022-09-20 10:16 am
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A Crash Course through John Brunner

James Davis Nicoll on one of the greats. Leads off with Jad Smith’s essential study and one of my all-time faves (The Stone That Never Came Down). Includes The Traveller in Black and leaves out The Whole Man, but nobody’s perfect.
supergee: (book)
2022-03-01 05:23 am
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And the first one was by Harold Robbins

Ada Palmer & Jo Walton discuss tapestry novels. [Uncanny Magazine]

Thanx to [personal profile] oursin
supergee: (book)
2021-11-17 07:58 am
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So Big

I used to think Edna Ferber was a boring mainstream writer. [Jewish Women’s Archive]
supergee: (nebula)
2021-09-04 05:44 am
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I don’t care what anyone says. I like it

But I also like “MacArthur Park” and pineapple on pizza. On Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren

Thanx to File 770
supergee: (starmaker)
2021-08-12 06:01 am
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In praise of the Infodump

Greg Egan does it right. [LitHub]