good l-rd, that was a wonderful (sad) little story.
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I, personally, speaking for myself, and not some other entity that might use the first-person singular pronoun âIâ, think itâs great that Boing Boing is giving opportunities to comment in the comments to commenters whose first language isnât a human language, and understand very little about human languages as spoken and written by human people.
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It is wonderful, innit. 
While youâre in the mood, try these:
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040329/grammarian.shtml
Eleanor Arnason, The Grammarianâs Five Daughters
Mary Robinette Kowal, Evil Robot Monkey
I donât think thatâs Science Fiction. It might be fantasy, though, and thus eligible for a Hugo. Although it reads rather more like mainstream literature to me, and it seems like stretching the category pretty far to say fiction that includes characters who have fantasies are themselves a work of fantasy.
Nice piece of writing, in any case. Thanks!
Thatâs not an uncommon view, and it probably played a large role in why it didnât win.
(on the other side, though: what if you had a more conventional SFF story, but used a framing device of it all actually being the daydream of a non-SFF character? Does that make it non-SFF?)
The Hugosâ definition of SFF is âwhatever the voters decide it isâ.
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Like âThe Bridgeâ by Iain Banks?
Or John Scalziâs Redshirts.
Really, âfantasy as daydreamâ is a SFF clichĂ© in itself.
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Maybe heâs referring to the double-entendre up in the subject header.
Apparently Roger Zelazny wanted to write poetry and great literature, but he decided that using the framework of Science Fiction gave him the greatest freedom of scope for the amount of money he could earn doing it. Most of his stories would still be the same if they were set in ancient Greece and not in the future, but theyâd have earned him a lot less income.
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Possibly. Ian Banks said that he made his money from his mainstream fiction; the SF novels were just a (non-profit) pleasure.
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Different era, of course.
Note to self: reread Amber series and think of Greece.
Thanks!
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Ah, the Buttception series.
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Thank you. I read that a couple years ago, but somehow I never made that connection, probably because it would have required me to think a lot more like the Rabids. (It is a beautiful sad little story.)
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