• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    29 days ago

    Lamina1 is enough to prove Stephenson is kind of full of shit.

    It’s such a joke it doesn’t even have its own Wikipedia entry. It’s just a footnote on Stephenson’s.


    I’m just gonna call it like I sees it:

    I put Stephenson in the same camp as Orson Scott Card.

    He had a single book with some really brilliant and thoughtful ideas… and that’s about it. People need money to stay alive, and can always be swayed by it.

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      28 days ago

      That’s not fair. Multiple books of his books are award winning. Even if you only like one, the critics rate him. Other writers, rate him.

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      28 days ago

      Them again, “a single book with some really brilliant and thoughtful ideas” is one book more than most authors, much less internet commenters will ever put out.

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      28 days ago

      Hang on a second. Orson Scott Card is a homophobic motherfuck. What’d NS do that is so bad?