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James Davis Nicoll
Personal blog · jamesdavisnicoll.com/reviewwritingculture
James Davis Nicoll writes James Nicoll Reviews, a personal blog at jamesdavisnicoll.com about writing and culture. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link James Davis Nicoll's site for his prolific book reviews, including a review series on speculative fiction and pulp novels. One commenter finds the reviews interesting and valuable.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-11
What Hacker News says?
I'm sorry, but on this matter you are making a completely inapt comparison. The usage by modern fans and critics: http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/speculative_fiction I also refer you to all of the review series done by James Nicoll using the term as I described - http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/ There are also 34 references for you to follow in this Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_ficti…
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on “Crafting Plausible Maps (2015)”In the 1942 Captain Future pulp "Outlaws of the Moon" [1], President Carthew was anonymously murdered by a drone. [1] https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/have-no-fear-of-the-bayi...
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on “Click Here to Kill”One person's decent is another's rubbish. I have fairly low standards. If the author can (or can hire an editor to) put together decent sentences, paragraphs, and chapters, these days, I'll settle for that. However, I cannot abide fiction that is "only you can save the universe" or anything that childish. I also can't abide worldbuilding with hereditary elites (political, magical, whatever) or slavery in it -- the i…
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on “I Am a Transwoman. I Am in the Closet. I Am Not Coming Out”James is a prolific writer of book reviews. I find his reviews interesting and valuable. https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/
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on “Usenet Personality”https://jamesdavisnicoll.com
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