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Jo Walton reviews Starman Jones for Tor
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Heinlein Nexus  Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:10 am Posts: 1873 Location: Pacific NorthWest 
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 Re: Jo Walton reviews Starman Jones for Tor
Ooh, ooh, I want to be the first to use the phrase "Counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor"... |
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Centennial Attendee  Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:21 am Posts: 672 Location: Sunnyvale, CA
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Re: Jo Walton reviews Starman Jones for Tor
I have dibs on "...intuitively obvious to even the most casual observer..."! _________________ “Don’t believe everything you see on the Internet.” –Abraham Lincoln |
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PITA Bred  Joined: Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:17 pm Posts: 2315 Location: The Quiet Earth
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Re: Jo Walton reviews Starman Jones for Tor You're all freddled gruntbugglies.
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Centennial Attendee  Joined: Mon Apr 14, 2008 4:09 pm Posts: 139
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Re: Jo Walton reviews Starman Jones for Tor
You're such a frackin' tease. |
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PITA Bred Joined: Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:17 pm Posts: 2315 Location: The Quiet Earth
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Re: Jo Walton reviews Starman Jones for Tor
Naw, I'm a freddled gruntbugg... SQUIRREL! _________________ "Hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht anders." - Luther In the end, I found Heinlein is finite. Thus, finite analysis is needed. |
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NitroForum Oldster  Joined: Thu Jun 19, 2008 3:57 pm Posts: 152
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Re: Jo Walton reviews Starman Jones for Tor
I'm really sorry to see reviews such as of Starman Jones cited above, which manages to spoil the major plot turns for potential readers of that fine novel, without providing a more-or-less insightful analysis which would justify such disclosures. I don't know what audience she thought she was writing for. At Troynovant we generally write reviews that recommend, and if there is discussion of plot spoilers, those reviews or essays are so labeled. Incidentally, Heinlein knew what a "Tomahawk" was, and at least in my copies of Starman Jones, knew how to spell it. _________________ http://www.Troynovant.com/ - recurrent inspiration |
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| Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:20 pm |
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Centennial Attendee  Joined: Mon Oct 20, 2008 6:11 pm Posts: 198
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Re: Jo Walton reviews Starman Jones for Tor http://blogcritics.org/books/article/co ... a-strange/
Has a (glowing) review posted today about Stranger. Why all the interest all of a sudden? Is this something you guys are doing? Is it the birthday coming up? |
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NitroForum Oldster Joined: Thu Jun 19, 2008 3:57 pm Posts: 152
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Re: Jo Walton reviews Starman Jones for Tor
_________________ http://www.Troynovant.com/ - recurrent inspiration |
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| Sat Jun 20, 2009 4:40 am |
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Heinlein Biographer
Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:33 pm Posts: 1024
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Re: Jo Walton reviews Starman Jones for Tor
Seems fairly typically confused about what the book is about, as well as about literary fasion and history. However -- I dont think it's anything special popping up now; Stranger has had a concerned reader base for all this time, they just get swamped by fads from time to time. This book keeps selling out every new edition, which means something more than 10,000 copies per issue (the minimum I figure necessary to justify keeping it in print, given publishing economics). Somebody is buying those new copies, and they pop up from time to time. I think it's just coincidence. |
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PITA Bred Joined: Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:17 pm Posts: 2315 Location: The Quiet Earth
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Re: Jo Walton reviews Starman Jones for Tor
No SMOFs here. Just us SMOREs. |
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