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do you ever have a moment when you read one line by a writer, and instantly
seethingly,
(pettily) dislike that fucker and their taste on the spot so much that you'd duel them to the death out of sheer spite of their existence when that was the fancy thing to do? or at least dunk their head in the toilet if you were classmates? :P

i was not aware of this feeling until reading about this Stephenson dude here l m a o:

Stephenson teamed up with Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination to create Project Hieroglyph, “a global collective of writers and researchers” dedicated to countering the “darker, more skeptical, and [more] ambiguous tone” that had recently come to dominate sci-fi. Within two years, he persuaded a who’s-who of authors to join up: Elizabeth Bear, David Brin, Bruce Sterling, Charlie Jane Anders, and more. But after another two years, Project Hieroglyph went dark.

To his credit, Stephenson saw his target clearly. As he explained in a 2012 interview with Smithsonian Magazine, Project Hieroglyph had “one rule: no hackers, no hyperspace, and no holocaust.” Notwithstanding his unorthodox counting technique, these three rules make sense.

 

I'm sure he's a decent(?) guy! (barring any controversy i don't know) but wow words cannot contain the primal feral cat hades_screech.gif reaction I had. bitch what fuckin world does sci-fi exist without hackers other than your numbnut proto-anti prude balls???

anyway imma pick up some octavia butler shorts for sci fi with some sense and fun. :P (it has been A Day)