I’m kind of torn (delicate membranes and all). Tingle is sort of derivative of Game of Thrones, but might actually be better than Grr Martin. If you’re into that sort of thing, and nothing wrong with it if you are.
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I, personally, think that it’s great that Boing Boing is giving jobs to writers whose first language isn’t English, and understand very little about grammar and editing.
What the heck are you talking about.
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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 “I”, think it’s great that Boing Boing is giving opportunities to comment in the comments to commenters whose first language isn’t 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 you’re in the mood, try these:
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040329/grammarian.shtml
Eleanor Arnason, The Grammarian’s Five Daughters
Mary Robinette Kowal, Evil Robot Monkey
I don’t think that’s 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!
That’s not an uncommon view, and it probably played a large role in why it didn’t 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 Hugos’ definition of SFF is “whatever the voters decide it is”.
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Like “The Bridge” by Iain Banks?
Or John Scalzi’s Redshirts.
Really, “fantasy as daydream” is a SFF cliché in itself.
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Maybe he’s 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 they’d 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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