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@awfulstaringeye Much like Kubrick's alleged comments to Stephen King re: The Shining, I think even that is rather optimistic

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As we once again get another thread about "buy MY books, school boards!" disguised as "the classics are icky" I want to remind everyone that Virginia wanted to ban Beloved by Toni Morrison from school curriculums

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@ouranosaurus Oh, yeah lol I realized I'd outgrown Xanth by Golem In the Gears, and I've mostly never had nostalgia for all the Piers Anthony books I read

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@roesler_brian If you've never read Bacigalupi, check out his collection, Pump Six and Other Stories. Just banger after banger

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This also applies to story structures - very disappointing to read last year's amazing Le Guin winner, The House of Rust, and see so many readers think that it it should've been 70 pages shorter, or that not all plot elements were resolved/tied up in the end https://t.co/19exfwMJED

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@robop_style @GhostingDani Gideon was more intriguing the more it defied easy categorization but also let's not pretend that Tor put all of its chips on making it the next big thing, too Something that Peter Watts' Blindsight (equally hard SF, cosmic horror and Weird imo) did not get previously

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@JonnyPickering_ Yeah, I honestly don't think Dreams in the Witch House is a particularly good Lovecraft, but they added so much to merely make it a "spoopy" version of "generic fantasy show" that at that point you ask what the point was

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@TheLincoln I keep thinking about how Silvia Moreno Garcia's Gods of Jade and Shadow should've made the NYT's bestsellers list . . . But they changed the rules right out from under her

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After having something I wrote compared to Alice Munro I picked up "Runaway" to see - I'd only ever heard of Munro but never read her!

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Check out my review of one of the most stunning post-apocalyptic novels I've read Tender Is the Flesh shows how vital translation of non-anglophone SFF should be https://t.co/0rQkC6CHBj