Jun. 27th, 2013

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List courtesy of Andrew Wheeler.

Unfortunately the vast extent of my ignorance about SF begins to be revealed with this year's offering. Of the twelve books offered, I have read perhaps three of them and heard of another two.

[And it has not improved much in the decade since I wrote the original text]

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List courtesy of Andrew Wheeler

As in 1954, vast vistas in which I can be further educated open before me.

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Via Charles Stross:

JW: Your health: how is it? And did health scare change your attitudes towards things at all?

PM: I've been very ill - I was diagnosed with bowel cancer two and a half years ago. Stage three, advanced, but not yet spread beyond its locus. Not quite terminal, although with only a 40% chance of survival over 5 years.

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