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Marshall | Frugal Reviews

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Tales of Brave Ulysses (Timeline 10/27/62). April 7, 2016. Tales of Brave Ulysses (Timeline 10/27/62). Is the sixth book by James Philip. In a Brit-centric alternate history take on the aftermath of a Cuban Missile Crisis turned spasmodic WW3. Over in hours, or so it seems, but everything is changed. I love this title. The author has a fondness for using song titles as book titles, and the Cream song of the same name. Is one of my favorites. By the end of this book, there has been some cutting to the cha...

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So, You Want to Fix the Hugos… | Shoplifting in the Marketplace of Ideas

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Shoplifting in the Marketplace of Ideas. So, You Want to Fix the Hugos…. So, You Want to Fix the Hugos…. April 16, 2015. April 16, 2015. But you don’t want to “fix” the Hugos. J Greely over at .Clue. Snagged a comment off of “Making Light” that caught my attention. J Thomas, commenting on changing the Hugo rules at Making Light. Okay, enough sniping, lets look at the REAL problems with Hugo voting. And it’s not something that’s going to be fixed by Weighting and exponential multipliers an...But perhaps y...

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Papers, Please. | Shoplifting in the Marketplace of Ideas

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Shoplifting in the Marketplace of Ideas. October 9, 2016. October 9, 2016. Today’s movement among the elite in the publishing industry to concentrate more on the ethnicity of authors, rather than the quality of their work is nothing new. I recently ran across an example of it dating back to 1938, with regard to JRR Tolkien. So they asked. His reply had that delightfully English way of twisting the knife. From the source article. 20 Northmoor Road, Oxford. I am not of Aryan. Your enquiry is doubtless made...

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Who Goes There?! | Shoplifting in the Marketplace of Ideas

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Shoplifting in the Marketplace of Ideas. December 31, 2016. January 2, 2017. So, the latest stray dog that everyone has been kicking is Laurie Gough’s misguided screed on The Huffington Post assaulting the idea of self-publishing. Now, it would be easy, so, so easy to join the dog-piling and point out things like. No, my point is that she is wrong about the lack of gatekeepers. There are actually more gatekeepers now than there are editors and publishers and agents in the entire publishing industry.

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A response to George R. R. Martin from the author who started Sad Puppies – Monster Hunter Nation

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Sample Chapters & Short Stories. Sample Chapters & Short Stories. A response to George R. R. Martin from the author who started Sad Puppies. April 9, 2015. When one of the most successful authors on the planet takes the time to talk about something you did, I figure that deserves an in depth response. I’ve got no direct line to Mr. Martin, but I am hoping that this will get back to him. Mine will be in bold. Http:/ grrm.livejournal.com/417521.html. Let me begin with the basics:. Who owns the Hugo Awards?

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Well, this sucks. – Monster Hunter Nation

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Sample Chapters & Short Stories. Sample Chapters & Short Stories. Well, this sucks. April 15, 2015. Today two talented, worthy, deserving authors who we had on the Sad Puppies 3 slate gave up their Hugo nominations. Annie Bellet: https:/ overactive.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/hugo-story-withdrawn/. And Marko Kloos: http:/ www.munchkinwrangler.com/2015/04/15/a-statement-on-my-hugo-nomination/. Marko added this statement on Facebook:. My withdrawal has nothing to do with Larry Correia. For the 100th damned ti...

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Keyboard rage | Brad R. Torgersen

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Brad R. Torgersen. Blue Collar Speculative Fiction. Skip to primary content. Articles, Interviews, Guest Blogs. BRT Success – A Definition. May 4, 2015. Brad R. Torgersen. Well, total strangers may have an opportunity to reconsider at a later point. Especially if they meet me face-to-face. That, and the fact that social media lets us all run around inside each others’ heads all day long. We keep being shocked and horrified by what we find there, apparently. Only, it isn’t. Until then, things are bumpy.

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Tales of Brave Ulysses (Timeline 10/27/62). The Burning Time (Timeline 10/27/62). Red Dawn (Timeline 10/27/62). The Pillars of Hercules (Timeline 10/27/62). Love is Strange (Timeline 10/27/62). California Dreaming Frugal Reviews. The Time Bridge at Orion Frugal Reviews. On One Thousand Years.

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August | 2015 | Frugal Reviews

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Monthly Archive: August 2015. August 22, 2015. It is fitting and intentional that my first review post should be for the first novel by an author I have known online since she was twelve. She has always written well. The writing in the book is no exception, and to me sounded exactly like her, if you know what I mean. The book is Bad News. Without giving away details beyond those blurbed on the book page, I found it all but impossible to put down. This is saying a lot, considering some of the amazing ...

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SAD PUPPIES 3: The unraveling of an unreliable field | Brad R. Torgersen

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Brad R. Torgersen. Blue Collar Speculative Fiction. Skip to primary content. Articles, Interviews, Guest Blogs. BRT Success – A Definition. SAD PUPPIES 3: The unraveling of an unreliable field. February 4, 2015. Brad R. Torgersen. I want to introduce another theory. One that others have spoken of before. Did the factory change the formula or the manufacturing process? Maybe you just got a bad box. So you go back to the store again, to buy another box of good old delicious and reliable Nutty Nuggets!