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Mad Swede replied to the thread Anyone else on here into vintage computing?.You realise, don't you, that some of us learnt to program in PL/1 on IBM mainframes running OS/360 and MVS with CICS. Later I used PDP... -
Back before the internet, you would call a research librarian and ask them stuff. They'd get back to you, usually within a few hours...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread A quote from the late Sir Terry Pratchett....Or worse still, bitch about books they haven't read and don't intend to read because they think they're a "middlebrow cult of the...
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"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one." Discuss!
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In another thread skip.knox wrote the following: The thread here reiterates for me the dialectic between discovery and planning. Plot...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread 'real' names in Fantasy Settings..What you seem to want to do is make a joke about the so-called Aerith and Bob trope. It's been done before, in various parodies. Readers...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Discovery mapping.I've never thought about my writing in terms of something like "discovery writing". I think the story through then write, and the...
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Writing historical fiction requires never-ending research - so easy to slip up with anachronistic details. While editing my novel set in...
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We often think that stress and stress related illnesses are somehow unique to modern times, but there is research which suggests that...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Contemporary Fantasy.Cafeteria is Mexican Spanish in origin, and it means the same thing as the British English expression coffee house (or coffee-house or...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Contemporary Fantasy.The fantasy and SF genres were moving on and expanding within 15 years of the Lord of the Rings being published. Authors like Michael...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Contemporary Fantasy.The idea of a "sea of data" as a reference to the internet (or similar systems or even planes of existence) isn't new. As an example...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Contemporary Fantasy.You can make similar comments about some SF stories, where the characters eat food as opposed to taking some energy pill. The thing...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Book Piracy BAD.I think this depends on how you publish. Self-published authors are probably in a significantly worse position than those of us with...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread How do you make a swear look like a deity name?.If you're going to do this in a way that doesn't feel forced then you need to think through the culture in your setting in som detail...
