Sadly, the sarcastic comment I wanted to use as a title didn't fit*

So this led to this via an intermediate step I am not showing.

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If only we had a literature that yearned for the Other, that valorized exploration and learning, that was addicted to new experiences and thoughts, that actively loved getting inside the heads of strangers and bringing people together. That would be the perfect platform for discussions like this.

I was asked this and had no good answer

[Poll #1954414]

I can see no way in which this could go horribly wrong

As pointed out, several times, in email.


Phil Foglio goes to extremes to get a response from his publisher.

Clarkesworld Podcast March 2013: 86, 87, 88, 89 (Genevieve Valentine)

86, 87, 88, 89 (Genevieve Valentine)

The text version can be found here.

Read by Kate Baker

A volunteer archivist working in the rubble left after the US government deals resolutely with terrorists and willful collateralists is treated to an energizing learning experience about their true place in the grand scheme of things.

Curious if this or this played a role in the genesis of this story, along with the obvious.


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