The injustice!

[james_davis_nicoll]

Once again I will have to trek an entire block to vote in the Federal election!

Comments

[slrose.livejournal.com]

It should include the shortest route to the emergency room!

Off topic, James, can you recommend some non-doomy fiction? Mysteries are okay, as well as SF&F.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

The Flavia de Luce mysteries are non-doomy. Ditto the Ladies Number One Detective Agency books (the TV show was actually filmed in Botswana, although I think they couldn't find many local actors to be in it).

Non-doomy SF includes but is not restricted to:

The Next Continent
Rocket Girls
Rocket Girls: the Last Planet
The Lord of the Sands of Time
Loups-Garous (ADULTS ARE USELESS warning)
Maybe Tales of Ibis, depending.

Up Against It

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Nothing bad ever happens in a Milk Morinaga manga as far as I know, excepting the fact that nobody in any of her stories is capable of a simple declarative sentence under any circumstances requiring clear and unambiguous communication; I can only assume that if one of her protagonists was on fire, that character would delicately hint about it to her friends for 28 issues, occasionally lapsing into timid silence over her concern about the social repercussions of admitting one is on fire.

Also, some of Morinaga's work turns out not to be work-safe.