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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2011-07-01 06:18 pm

Because I care

As mentioned in comments, Dan Simmons has a dystopic novel coming out.


Canada, used to dividing itself into smaller parts to appease ethnic groups, languages, and claims to prior ownership, [...]


Is that a snipe at Nunavut?
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[personal profile] jazzfish 2011-07-02 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
I hung onto the first one, on the grounds that ISTR it being a pretty good example of several kinds of stories I enjoy. So whoever it is is stuck with #2-4, which should be enough to put whoever it is off Simmons's writing forever. On balance I consider this to be of the "cruel to be kind" class of action.