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John Scalzi
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Robert Heinlein, Dorothy Parker, HL Mencken, Coke Zero
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December 2007
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Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
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2005
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Redshirts
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2012
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The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)
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2006
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The Last Colony (Old Man's War, #3)
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2007
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Lock In (Lock In, #1)
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2014
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The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1)
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2017
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42 editions
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The Kaiju Preservation Society
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2022
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The Human Division (Old Man's War, #5)
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2013
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The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)
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2018
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Zoe's Tale (Old Man's War, #4)
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2008
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The Big Idea: Alaya Dawn Johnson
The “rise of AI” is a growing concern for many creators. Award winning author Alaya Dawn Johnson has some unique ideas on this AI problem we all face, and talks in her Big Idea about how our world’s AI compare to the AI in her newest novel, The Library of Broken Worlds.
ALAYA DAWN JOHNSON:
I didn’t set out to write about AI. I certainly didn’t anticipate, back in 2014 when I started drafting
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“Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.”
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“1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or taste, or whatever). They’re also entitled to express them online.
2. Sometimes those opinions will be ones you don’t like.
3. Sometimes those opinions won’t be very nice.
4. The people expressing those may be (but are not always) assholes.
5. However, if your solution to this “problem” is to vex, annoy, threaten or harrass them, you are almost certainly a bigger asshole.
6. You may also be twelve.
7. You are not responsible for anyone else’s actions or karma, but you are responsible for your own.
8. So leave them alone and go about your own life."
[Bad Reviews: I Can Handle Them, and So Should You (Blog post, July 17, 2012)]”
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2. Sometimes those opinions will be ones you don’t like.
3. Sometimes those opinions won’t be very nice.
4. The people expressing those may be (but are not always) assholes.
5. However, if your solution to this “problem” is to vex, annoy, threaten or harrass them, you are almost certainly a bigger asshole.
6. You may also be twelve.
7. You are not responsible for anyone else’s actions or karma, but you are responsible for your own.
8. So leave them alone and go about your own life."
[Bad Reviews: I Can Handle Them, and So Should You (Blog post, July 17, 2012)]”
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Thanks for becoming my Goodreads friend.You are a huge influence.Eric
love what i've read so far; my son really really loved the ending and the whole philisophical side; i liked the action but i'm a simpleton
Your books are responsible for my brother getting into Science Fiction. I sent him Old Man's War when he was in Iraq. He loved it, and it soon got passed around to the guys in his unit, who loved it as well.
You can't go wrong sending Military Sci-Fi to a bunch of ground-pounders :)
Now he has started reading Asimov, Clarke, and many more of the classics. Mwuhahaha, I had the last laugh. He used to razz me when we were teenagers for being a science fiction nerd :)
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