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Cthulhu Writes: You Gotta Get With My Friends
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Opinionated Reviews of Award-Winning Science Fiction. Friday, July 17, 2015. You Gotta Get With My Friends. Http:/ icanhas.cheezburger.com/. Cthulhu, Destroyer of Worlds. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Master List of Award Winners and Nominees. The Nebula and Hugo Awards Defined. An Explanation of My Book Rating System. Five Best Portrayals of Female Characters in Nebula and Hugo Award-Winning Novels. Five Worst Portrayals of Female Characters in Nebula and Hugo Award-Winning Novels. Simple template...
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Cthulhu Writes: Book Review: A Door into Ocean
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Opinionated Reviews of Award-Winning Science Fiction. Friday, July 10, 2015. Book Review: A Door into Ocean. Rating: ★ ★ – – –. This is a tale of two worlds. The planet Valedon has a highly regimented, restrictive class structure. It has a cash economy in which no one gives anything away for free. And it is part of a multi-planet administrative “Protectorship” ruled from afar by a single “Patriarch” on another planet in another solar system. This sets up a tidy contrast between a prototypical patriarchy ...
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Cthulhu Writes: Womp Rat Catcher
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Opinionated Reviews of Award-Winning Science Fiction. Friday, July 31, 2015. Http:/ icanhas.cheezburger.com/. Cthulhu, Destroyer of Worlds. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Master List of Award Winners and Nominees. The Nebula and Hugo Awards Defined. An Explanation of My Book Rating System. Five Best Portrayals of Female Characters in Nebula and Hugo Award-Winning Novels. Five Worst Portrayals of Female Characters in Nebula and Hugo Award-Winning Novels. Alternate Methods of Reproduction.
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Cthulhu Writes: It's All Too Much: Rape in A Game of Thrones
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Opinionated Reviews of Award-Winning Science Fiction. Friday, June 19, 2015. It's All Too Much: Rape in A Game of Thrones. Every fiction reader is different. Every reader has different levels of tolerance for suspense, fear, grossness, and bloodshed (mine is fairly high). And every reader has a different level of tolerance for sexual violence. I reached my limit on the sexual violence in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire. With the second book in the series, A Clash of Kings. By Dave Itzkoff ab...
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Cthulhu Writes: Book Review: A Deepness in the Sky
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Opinionated Reviews of Award-Winning Science Fiction. Friday, January 11, 2013. Book Review: A Deepness in the Sky. Awards: Hugo, Campbell. Rating: ★ - - - -. This book is a mile wide and an inch deep. And way, way too long. It seems like Vinge has fun introducing new people, places, accents, terms, and technologies, and then is happy to abandon them, superficially outlined, when he gets bored or thinks of new ones. It appears, however, that I am the only one who officially feels this way about this book...
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Cthulhu Writes: Five Best Portrayals of Female Characters in Nebula & Hugo Award-Winning Novels
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Opinionated Reviews of Award-Winning Science Fiction. Five Best Portrayals of Female Characters in Nebula and Hugo Award-Winning Novels. Herewith, I submit for your consideration my choices for the Hugo and Nebula award-winning novels that have the best representations of female characters. Vonda N. McIntyre). Robinson generally does a good job with his female characters; he gives them good stories, cantankerous, unstereotypical personalities, independence, and a lot of brainpower and talent. ClintonR...
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Cthulhu Writes: Book Review: A Clash of Kings
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Opinionated Reviews of Award-Winning Science Fiction. Friday, May 15, 2015. Book Review: A Clash of Kings. George R.R. Martin. Rating: ★ ★ – – –. SPOILER ALERT (for A Game of Thrones. A Clash of Kings is the second novel in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, continuing the epic story begun in A Game of Thrones. Thus A Clash of Kings is exactly what the title says it is: a clash between at least seven major contenders vying to be king of all the land. The contenders are:. Stannis and Renl...
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Cthulhu Writes: The Triple Strand
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Opinionated Reviews of Award-Winning Science Fiction. Tuesday, June 30, 2015. Kim Stanley Robinson on religion, via his character Bai in The Years of Rice and Salt. What followed was a kind of understanding of human reality that placed the greatest value on compassion, created by enlightened understanding, created by study of what was there in the world. Cthulhu, Destroyer of Worlds. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Master List of Award Winners and Nominees. The Nebula and Hugo Awards Defined. While s...
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Cthulhu Writes: The Nebula and Hugo Awards Defined
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Opinionated Reviews of Award-Winning Science Fiction. The Nebula and Hugo Awards Defined. I thought it was high time I used this space to address another excellent reader question: what is the difference between the Nebula and Hugo awards? The short answer is that the Nebula is voted on by science fiction writers. While the Hugo is voted on by science fiction fans. So in order to vote for the Nebula, you really need to have some author props. Another Fan's Nebula-v-Hugo Analysis. The official Nebula Awar...
