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#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 2: What do you dislike as reader and thus avoid in your own work? TOO MANY CLICHEs! I began work on a space opera in 2015 and as prep I wrote up a taxonomy of clichés in space o
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@cstross@wandering.shop I've bookmarked this even though my SF is more "space opera adjacent" than a proper example of the genre, mainly because mine is taking the piss out of most of the things on th
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@QuokkaMocha@mastodon.world What you're describing is John W. Campbell's legacy—human-superiority as a barely disguised proxy for his white supremacism.
Fiction writer, amateur artist. Writes mainly supernatural and crime fiction, some fantasy. Nominated for the 2010 Debut Dagger Award and Edgar Awards for Best Short Story (for a piece in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine). Currently working in TV subtitling / close captioning as a day job, and because I like doing something that helps people. Scottish, lived in CZ and London for a while, but back now in the Old Country. Diet # IrnBru drinker.
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Fiction writer, amateur artist. Writes mainly supernatural and crime fiction, some fantasy. Nominated for the 2010 Debut Dagger Award and Edgar Awards for Best Short Story (for a piece in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine). Currently working in TV subtitling / close captioning as a day job, and because I like doing something that helps people. Scottish, lived in CZ and London for a while, but back now in the Old Country. Diet # IrnBru drinker.
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@cstross@wandering.shop I was actually just trying to think of an example of it where "human" culture wasn't just western, usually North American culture but I'm coming up blank on that. But yeah, it's so arrogant, that attitude that your way is the only way.
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