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Gerry Canavan
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Gerry Canavan's personal blog at gerrycanavan.wordpress.com covers culture and politics. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Tolkien, THE FORCE AWAKENS, and the Sadness of Expanded Universes [spoilers]”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-13, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
The linked posts discuss Star Wars and its superweapons. The one comment quotes a passage arguing that Death Stars in the franchise amount to the inexorable logic of history, not one-off special cases.
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Most-linked posts?
- Tolkien, THE FORCE AWAKENS, and the Sadness of Expanded Universes [spoilers]2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-12-28
What Hacker News says?
I read an interesting take on that: that in the Star Wars universe, immense superweapons aren't once-in-a-trilogy special cases, they're standard practice. > One Death Star is a horror; two Death Stars and one Starkiller Base and whatever horrific murder innovation the First Order will come up with for Episode 9 is something more like the inexorable logic of history, grinding us all to dust. https://gerrycanavan.wor…
Comment linking /2015/12/23/tolkien-the-force-awakens-and-the-expanded-universe/
on “Admit It: 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Stinks”Submitted Tolkien, THE FORCE AWAKENS, and the Sadness of Expanded Universes [spoilers] as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Highest paid officials by state as a story · 2 points
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