Category: Fiction
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Harry Harrison, R.I.P.
The New York Times has an obit. Found out via Fred Pohl. I read some of Harrison’s work, but probably most memorable to me was the series which began with Hammer and Cross series in particular captured my imagination. With hindsight it’s pr…
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How Game of Thrones Should Have Ended
I haven’t watched most of the films (or video games, or T.V. shows) being parodied by How It Should Have Ended. But I have read A Game of Thrones. So I’m confused as to why this struck me as rather unfunny, in comparison to most of the othe…
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Is “Game of Thrones” racist? Not even wrong….
One of the aspects of fiction is that it serves as a Rorschach test. Over at Slate Nina Shen Rastogi has a post up, Is “Game of Thrones” Racist?: The Dothraki are dark, with long hair they wear in dreadlocks or in matted braids. They sport …