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Pearls Before Swine: Cell Phone Updates

By Lynn McGuire on Tue Oct 14 16:14:59 2025

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By Lynn McGuire on Mon Oct 13 17:22:10 2025

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Crackshaft: Acronym Anonymous

By Lynn McGuire on Tue Oct 14 16:08:24 2025

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"Amongst Our Weapons "by Ben Aaronvitch

By Bobbie Sellers on Thu Oct 9 16:44:20 2025

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"Wildfire: A Hidden Legacy Novel (Hidden Legacy, 3)" by Ilona Andrews

By Lynn McGuire on Tue Oct 14 15:48:07 2025

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James Arthur Hetley (August 15, 1947 - October 8, 2025)

By jdnicoll on Tue Oct 14 09:07:03 2025

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Freefall: Nuclear Vessels

By Lynn McGuire on Mon Oct 13 18:00:38 2025

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rec.arts.sf.written Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) by Evelyn Leeper

By Lynn McGuire on Mon Oct 13 22:12:00 2025

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(Big Hair Big Guns) The Cool War by Frederik Pohl

By jdnicoll on Thu Oct 9 08:55:44 2025

Latest reply by ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan on Mon Oct 13 19:49:22 2025
Marian Engel - Bear

By Robert Carnegie on Mon Oct 13 15:26:04 2025

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"White Hot (Hidden Legacy, 2)" by Ilona Andrews

By Lynn McGuire on Mon Oct 13 15:10:03 2025

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Clarke Award Finalists

By jdnicoll on Mon Oct 13 15:03:10 2025

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Re: Headline - definite Mutineer's Moon vibe

By kludge on Mon Oct 13 14:40:45 2025

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Sad news re Canada's On Spec

By jdnicoll on Mon Oct 13 09:31:46 2025

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(ReacTor) Why We Should Build Armed Bases on the Moon

By jdnicoll on Fri Oct 10 14:10:10 2025

Latest reply by Lynn McGuire on Mon Oct 13 01:32:04 2025
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By Lynn McGuire on Sun Oct 12 21:35:27 2025

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"Burn for Me (Hidden Legacy, 1)" by Ilona Andrews

By Lynn McGuire on Sun Oct 12 21:16:10 2025

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"All the Dead Shall Weep" by Charlaine Harris

By Bobbie Sellers on Sun Oct 12 15:48:54 2025

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Re: Love Is Blind...something fishy here...

By The Starmaker on Sun Oct 12 13:57:40 2025

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(Tears) The Menace From Earth by Robert A. Heinlein

By jdnicoll on Sun Oct 12 12:56:15 2025

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uh, oh, didn't Asimov warn about meetings of this sort?

By danny burstein on Thu Sep 25 18:01:50 2025

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By William Hyde on Sun Sep 21 17:45:24 2025

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"Part Time Gods" by Rachel Aaron

By Bobbie Sellers on Thu Oct 9 16:46:49 2025

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Highlights and Lowlights - August-September 2025

By Tony Nance on Tue Sep 30 16:11:56 2025

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[OT]Eyesight

By ram on Mon Oct 6 18:49:31 2025

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"Relentless (The Lost Fleet, Book 5)" by Jack Campbell

By Lynn McGuire on Wed Oct 8 18:16:07 2025

Latest reply by Lynn McGuire on Wed Oct 8 18:16:07 2025
Clarke Award Finalists 2016

By jdnicoll on Mon Sep 29 17:28:44 2025

Latest reply by Lynn McGuire on Wed Oct 8 13:35:30 2025
(Translation) Record of a Night Too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami

By jdnicoll on Wed Oct 8 12:58:34 2025

Latest reply by jdnicoll on Wed Oct 8 12:58:34 2025
Re: (OT) Bad News From Alpha Centauri =?CP1251?B?QYU=?=

By John Savard on Wed Oct 8 04:28:32 2025

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Clarke Award Finalists 2017

By jdnicoll on Mon Oct 6 16:22:58 2025

Latest reply by Lynn McGuire on Tue Oct 7 22:54:16 2025
New weapon unveiled.

By Bobbie Sellers on Tue Sep 30 14:02:49 2025

Latest reply by Paul S Person on Tue Oct 7 09:04:25 2025
Re: Assorted reading: Ganny goes to War

By Joy Beeson on Fri Sep 26 10:04:25 2025

Latest reply by scott on Tue Oct 7 14:32:34 2025
(Meetpoint) Forty Thousand in Gehenna by C J Cherryh

By jdnicoll on Tue Oct 7 12:54:50 2025

Latest reply by Paul S Person on Tue Oct 7 09:19:57 2025
Freefall: Florence Is Still a Wolf

By Lynn McGuire on Wed Sep 24 15:06:05 2025

Latest reply by The Horny Goat on Tue Oct 7 00:49:57 2025
Freezing Down

By kludge on Mon Oct 6 20:05:57 2025

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Re: _Lords of Creation_ by S. M. Stirling

By Robert Woodward on Sat Oct 4 22:11:37 2025

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(Tears) Destinies, February-March 1980 edited by Jim Baen

By jdnicoll on Sun Oct 5 13:04:25 2025

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Midnight Blue Light Special

By Bobbie Sellers on Sat Oct 4 21:00:13 2025

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Pearls Before Swine: Rat has a new job in Hell

By Lynn McGuire on Wed Oct 1 14:59:48 2025

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By Lynn McGuire on Thu Oct 2 16:16:57 2025

Latest reply by Paul S Person on Sat Oct 4 09:50:02 2025
/New Yorker/ Daily Cartoon today. . .

By Mark Jackson on Fri Oct 3 14:30:00 2025

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"Holding Their Own XII: Copperheads (Holding Their Own)" by Joe Nobody

By Lynn McGuire on Fri Oct 3 15:14:18 2025

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By Lynn McGuire on Fri Oct 3 14:56:37 2025

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Re: Over The Hedge: Banned Games

By William Hyde on Sun Sep 21 17:37:03 2025

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(ReacTor) STARS MOVE

By jdnicoll on Fri Oct 3 10:21:18 2025

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OT-DVD review: Transformers: One

By Bobbie Sellers on Thu Oct 2 17:14:25 2025

Latest reply by Paul S Person on Fri Oct 3 09:22:40 2025
(WFC) An Unlikely Coven (Green Witch Cycle, volume 1) by AM Kvita

By jdnicoll on Fri Oct 3 09:15:17 2025

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"Authors, Time to Get That (Anthropic) Bag" by John Scalzi

By Lynn McGuire on Thu Oct 2 22:41:44 2025

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"No Man's Land: Volume 1" by Sarah A. Hoyt

By Lynn McGuire on Thu Oct 2 22:22:53 2025

Latest reply by Lynn McGuire on Thu Oct 2 22:22:53 2025
Pearls Before Swine: Rock In Space

By Lynn McGuire on Thu Oct 2 14:20:02 2025

Latest reply by Mark Jackson on Thu Oct 2 15:25:45 2025
(review) Probe (Search, # 1) by Leslie Stevens & Russ Mayberry

By jdnicoll on Thu Oct 2 12:42:30 2025

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Re: "Putin is increasingly carrying out attacks in SPACE, with Western satellites targeted by laser strikes and even Russian spacecraft 'sneaking up on them'"

By Lynn McGuire on Mon Sep 22 14:08:37 2025

Latest reply by Paul S Person on Thu Oct 2 09:29:37 2025
Re: OT Weird Chess News.

By John Savard on Sun Sep 28 03:20:41 2025

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The Bloom County Boys: Work Release Weekends

By Lynn McGuire on Tue Sep 30 16:02:05 2025

Latest reply by scott on Wed Oct 1 19:11:36 2025
stats 2025

By The Doctor on Wed Oct 1 00:30:40 2025

Latest reply by Lynn McGuire on Wed Oct 1 15:12:53 2025
Not With A Bang

By ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan on Tue Sep 30 15:38:18 2025

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(ReacTor) On Writing Romance as Hard Science Fiction

By jdnicoll on Thu Sep 25 14:10:31 2025

Latest reply by Bobbie Sellers on Tue Sep 30 14:05:56 2025
Re: (Worst) Tarnsman of Gor (Gor, volume 1) by John Norman

By John Savard on Sun Sep 28 03:41:34 2025

Latest reply by John Savard on Tue Sep 30 04:47:11 2025
An Angel Called Peterbilt

By Bobbie Sellers on Tue Sep 30 13:12:12 2025

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(Realized World) Elegy/Graveyard by Williams & Zelazny

By jdnicoll on Tue Sep 30 12:52:15 2025

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"Corvus (Frontlines: Evolution)" by Marko Kloos

By Lynn McGuire on Mon Sep 29 22:23:16 2025

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Re: OT Bratt Farrar Josephine Tey Was: (Worst) Tarnsman etc

By Robert Carnegie on Sun Sep 28 11:28:08 2025

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Redcoat from Image

By Bobbie Sellers on Sun Sep 28 16:39:54 2025

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Wizard Of Id: Climate Conference

By Lynn McGuire on Sun Sep 28 15:51:25 2025

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"Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, 3)" by Becky Chambers

By Lynn McGuire on Sun Sep 28 15:20:12 2025

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(Tears) Tiger by the Tail by Alan E. Nourse

By jdnicoll on Sun Sep 28 13:03:48 2025

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Re: (ReacTor) Defining Our Terms: What Do We Mean by "Hard SF"?

By John Savard on Sun Sep 28 03:52:19 2025

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Over The Hedge: Red Dwarf Sun

By Lynn McGuire on Sat Sep 27 15:03:34 2025

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(Worst) Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis

By jdnicoll on Tue Sep 23 13:00:13 2025

Latest reply by Don on Sun Sep 28 04:57:16 2025
Re: The Ark of the Biology

By John Savard on Sun Sep 28 03:12:38 2025

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The Backrooms

By ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan on Sat Sep 27 02:25:53 2025

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Re: xkcd: Sea Level

By Robert Carnegie on Sat Sep 27 00:44:12 2025

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Re: (tears) The Continent Makers by L. Sprague de Camp

By ram on Fri Sep 26 13:04:52 2025

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Russia Headed for Huge Trademark Lawsuit

By John Savard on Sat Sep 27 02:30:11 2025

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(WFC) Bound Feet by Kelsea Yu

By jdnicoll on Fri Sep 26 13:22:45 2025

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Re: Jules Verne and SciFi

By ram on Thu Sep 25 11:14:43 2025

Latest reply by Carlos E.R. on Thu Sep 25 14:29:20 2025
(End of History) Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack

By jdnicoll on Thu Sep 25 08:56:56 2025

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Rule 34 by Charles Stross

By Bobbie Sellers on Wed Sep 24 11:15:09 2025

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(ReacTor) Adventures in Tourism: Five SFF Stories About Travel

By jdnicoll on Tue Sep 23 14:27:20 2025

Latest reply by Lynn McGuire on Tue Sep 23 17:35:07 2025
Re: xkcd: Biology Department

By Lynn McGuire on Mon Sep 22 14:09:51 2025

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Clarke Award Finalists 2015

By jdnicoll on Mon Sep 22 14:05:03 2025

Latest reply by Steve Coltrin on Tue Sep 23 08:59:29 2025
Re: The Feast of Saint Janis & Ginungagap by Michael Swanwick

By William Hyde on Sun Sep 21 18:09:53 2025

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"Harden (Lee Harden Series (The Remaining Universe) #9)"

By Lynn McGuire on Mon Sep 22 21:30:27 2025

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Re: Moon over Soho

By Jerry Brown on Mon Sep 22 09:15:24 2025

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BC: A Woman's Weight

By Lynn McGuire on Mon Sep 22 18:55:58 2025

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Re: (ReacTor) Five Books That Said To Hell With the Speed-of-Light Barrier

By Lynn McGuire on Mon Sep 22 14:18:47 2025

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