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Howard Tayler / Disco is back!
« on: August 19, 2011, 04:06:38 AM »
I love the "foreboding comparison" from yesterday... and here's Johnny! er... Max!
Disco, disco duck!
Disco, disco duck!
A lot of people describe Scalzi’s Old Man's War novels as military science fiction, but I would classify its sequel Zoë’s Tale as a space opera. It’s a story about, well, Zoë, a teenage girl whose parents are invited to take leadership roles in building a colony on a new planet. Zoë is an enthusiastic member of the group sent to colonize Roanoke, despite the risks—and the risks are considerable even before the political machinations of greater powers boil to the surface. Continue reading Zoë’s Tale
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Caxiao means "coffin" in Portuguese, at least as spoken in Brazil.
It also more generally means "container," so it's a bit more like the English word "casket." I imagine linguistic drift and merge giving us this word for the tiny, bed-only hotel rooms like they have in Tokyo.
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How you like to read Schlock Mercenary?
It does make you wonder what the difference is between genuine imitation and imitation imitation.
So his eyes were in the last place he looked, but not a bag.Quote
Ugh! That's terrible.
You're going to hit me...
In the last bag he looked at