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Dust 07/10 steven is currently reading:
Dust (Mass Market Paperback)
by Elizabeth Bear
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Grimspace 07/10 steven is currently reading:
Grimspace (Paperback)
by Ann Aguirre
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The Misenchanted Swo... 07/10 steven is currently reading:
The Misenchanted Sword: A Legend of Ethshar (Legends of Ethshar)
by Lawrence Watt-Evans
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July 10
Dust steven is currently reading:
Dust (Mass Market Paperback)
by Elizabeth Bear
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didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Grimspace steven is currently reading:
Grimspace (Paperback)
by Ann Aguirre
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didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Misenchanted Swo... steven is currently reading:
The Misenchanted Sword: A Legend of Ethshar (Legends of Ethshar)
by Lawrence Watt-Evans
bookshelves: currently-reading
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June 30
Judas Unchained steven gave 2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars to:
Judas Unchained (Hardcover)
by Peter F. Hamilton
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steven steven said: "The second of two (the first being Pandora's Star), this one finishes up the story a bit predictably. It is the poorer of the two books, telegraphing every move and introducing civilization-saving technologies that were never even hinted at in the pr...more "
Iron Sunrise steven gave 2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars to:
Iron Sunrise (Hardcover)
by Charles Stross
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steven steven said: "The initial scene for this book is improbable. There's faster-than-light travel and communication, so when a supernova is set off nearby, evacuation should be nearly immediate, yes? Nope; these morons decide to wait until the last possible second bef...more "
The Outback Stars steven gave 3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars to:
The Outback Stars (Hardcover)
by Sandra McDonald
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steven steven said: "Good military SF, even if there is little evidence of a plot until late. There are hints, but the majority of the book consists of setting up the background necessary to understand the importance of what will go on later. It is a nice universe the au...more "
May 22
The Centurion's Empi... steven gave 2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars to:
The Centurion's Empire (Hardcover)
by Sean McMullen
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steven steven said: "I'm not entirely sure the first half of the book is necessary; it's more like an extremely long prologue, setting up the background so that the action can continue without breaking stride with exposition.

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May 21
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"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."Mark Twain
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"Highly creative people don't necessarily excel in raw brainpower. They are misfits on some level. They tend to question accepted views and to consider contradictory ones."G. Pascal Zachary
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"When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."Clifton Fadiman




steven's favorite quotes

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"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
Mark Twain

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"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
Edith Wharton

"When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."
Clifton Fadiman

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"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
Epicurus (The Essential Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican Sayings, and Fragments (Great Books in Philosophy))

"I would trust him as far as I could throw him ... which would be pretty far, come to think of it."
— Superman




steven's writing

Class Notes for English 71 (Poetry)
1 chapters   —   updated 03/10/2008 01:13PM
description: English 71 is a creative writing course. So it's only natural that the notes for the semester took a creative bent
Random Scribblings, Episode 548984596871 (Science)
0 chapters   —   updated 03/10/2008 01:04PM
description: Something I found in one of my notebooks the other day. I have no idea where I was going with this, but it feels like in needs to be preserved just in case.



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