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Steven Brust
Personal blog · dreamcafe.compoliticswriting
Steven Brust writes The Dream Café, a personal blog at dreamcafe.com about politics and writing. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Steven Brust's blog for his notes on writing with Emacs and for his fan-fiction novel "My Own Kind of Freedom" (a Firefly book), which one commenter calls well worth a read.
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.
Steven Brust: “A masterful storyteller of contagious glee and self-deprecating badassery” —Skyler White
What Hacker News says?
Lots of professional authors use "advanced" text editors for their stuff. And sadly, that often means old editors, because they often tend to have features that modern word processors lack (or make it easier to accept then). And of course once you get used to something... There was a Salon article about people still using XyWrite[1]. As mentioned in the post, GRRM is one of the people[2] still using WordStar. I know…
Comment linking /firefly.html
on “Let's just use Emacs”Submitted Understanding Libertarians as a story · 5 points
HN discussionApparently Steve Brust writes using emacs. http://dreamcafe.com/words/2009/04/11/help-us-dr-internet-em...
Comment linking /words/2009/04/11/help-us-dr-internet-emacs-edition/
on “A writer leaves Microsoft Word”Speaking of sf/fantasy authors, Steve Brust writes using emacs. (And on mandrake linux, according to the acknowledgements of this unpublished work: http://dreamcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/My-Own-Kind-... )
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2012/10/My-Own-Kind-of-Freedom-Steven-Brust.pdf
on “Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs)”Ah, the good old "people are stupid" saying. http://dreamcafe.com/2013/06/18/people-are-stupid/
Comment linking /2013/06/18/people-are-stupid/
on “Police May Know Exactly Where You Were Last Tuesday”Hoped I'd see they were working with Steven Brust, author of the excellent Vlad Taltos fantasy series, who wrote a fan fiction Firefly novel, "My Own Kind of Freedom" http://dreamcafe.com/2008/02/05/firefly-novel/ Well worth a read, though as with all things Firefly, it just leaves you wanting more... Cory Doctorow's plug https://boingboing.net/2008/02/18/steven-brusts-unauth.html
Comment linking /2008/02/05/firefly-novel/
on “Firefly book series announced: Joss Whedon to serve as consulting editor”