I mean, you’ve gotta have a nemesis, why not google
Zach
@megapolisomancy.bsky.social
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Nonfiction about weird fiction at Seize the Press, Strange Horizons, Interzone, Los Angeles Review of Books, Nightmare, and Ancillary Review of Books, where I am also an editor. Also jazz, metal, leftism. he/him
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Those darn librarians
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It’s conjecture, based on google’s abysmal track record, but… please don’t enshittify this one small good thing. Just let us have this!!!!
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If this happens I am going to become the Joker
Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
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☎️ SH CRITICISM HOTLINE NOW OPEN
In mid-August, thoughts naturally turn to the end of next January: the @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special.
What spec fic essays, roundtables, interviews, song-and-dance routines have you got for us? Go broad!
⚾️ Pitch us: danwhartland at gmail dot com
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Have you tried Axe to Fall yet? I don’t think Jane Doe has aged very well (my 18 year old self would die if he knew), but AtF is a masterpiece
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I promised you all further reflections on doing genre history. You can’t say I didn’t!
So, here it is. On Roberts and Pheby, and on fantasy and knowledge. The latest Snap! Criticism at @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org.
Snap! Criticism: Roberts and Pheby
Dan Hartland Defining a genre is most often a fool’s errand. Take science fiction: from the almost open-ended capaciousness of Theodore Sturgeon (“a story with a human problem and a human solution”…
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That means a lot, thank you!!
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This is definitely a Brian Evenson story, although I can’t bring the title to mind (I’ve read a lot of Brian Evenson stories)
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Ohh!
