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Appreciating SCIFICTION
Dec. 13th, 2005 08:55 amMy appreciation of 'New Light on the Drake Equation' by Ian R. Macleod has been posted at the ED sf project.
It was a lot of fun to write something that's an out-and-out rave; it seems the more I read, and think about what I'm reading, the more critical I get, and the more I qualify my judgements. Which is as it should be, since no story is perfect, but this time around I didn't have to. 'New Light ...' is a story that I love, and if it has any major faults, I think I'm probably blind to them, or at least don't think they detract from what's good about the story in any way. I'm very grateful to Ellen Datlow and to SCIFICTION, for giving me the chance to read it. You should probably read the story, if you haven't, before the appreciation.
If you've signed up for an appreciation and haven't written it yet--what are you waiting for? If you haven't signed up--seriously, what are you waiting for? There are still good stories left, and you don't want to miss out on being part of this. All the cool kids are doing it.
It was a lot of fun to write something that's an out-and-out rave; it seems the more I read, and think about what I'm reading, the more critical I get, and the more I qualify my judgements. Which is as it should be, since no story is perfect, but this time around I didn't have to. 'New Light ...' is a story that I love, and if it has any major faults, I think I'm probably blind to them, or at least don't think they detract from what's good about the story in any way. I'm very grateful to Ellen Datlow and to SCIFICTION, for giving me the chance to read it. You should probably read the story, if you haven't, before the appreciation.
If you've signed up for an appreciation and haven't written it yet--what are you waiting for? If you haven't signed up--seriously, what are you waiting for? There are still good stories left, and you don't want to miss out on being part of this. All the cool kids are doing it.
