An odd omission?

Have there been any Roger Zelazny stories so far in Mindwebs? I'd expect at least A Rose for Ecclesiastes. Wasn't he very popular in the 1970s?

A post about the ongoing harassment conversation I can only call

In diverse fora, The conversation continues.

So, something about the election I thought I could have handled better

About the training, actually. So there's this form an elections minion might conceivably have to fill out for voters

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A question about killers in fiction

[Poll #1866025]

A question about killers in fiction

[Poll #1866025]

Science Snark

The probability of having one out of twenty six participants at a scientific meeting be female
Jonathan A. Eisen

Mindwebs: Phoenix and Saucer Of Loneliness

Phoenix

I am going to be honest here: I don't have much idea what this story is about, although I know super-psi powers figure into it, because god it was so boring. Instead I will try to draw attention away from my shortcomings as a listener by asking "Should an editor do what Ted White did in The Best from Amazing Stories and pick a story he himself co-authored?"

I see from ISFDB this was part of a series. Golly.

Saucer Of Loneliness

Interesting this tale of an emo space saucer and the woman whose life it ruined got tapped for adaptation by two different radio shows.

I liked the bit with the crowd....

So it all begins innocently enough with kids licking space meteors in the hope of getting powers

I suspect this is just another James idea for an Icons character. Yes, when I am bored I randomly roll up characters until I get something that amuses me. Don't judge me.

Really, the character idea is independent of the power set in part because I am stealing from the Ashen Stars campaign and a comment somebody made here.

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