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PoindexterOglethorpe

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18. I stopped reading s-f when the New Wave hit.

Fri Nov 21, 2025, 01:17 AM

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It just didn't work for me.

I also read a far wider variety of books than most people do, mostly non-fiction. S-F is perhaps a tenth of what I read. But I love the field, and I especially love the people in it.

Oh, and Walter Jon Williams and Nancy Kress used to teach the Taos Toolbox, and I attended there in the late oughts. They were an excellent teaching pair.

Because I sort of go in and out of the field, I tend to forget details.

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