LJ/SUP quietly removes filter

http://community.livejournal.com/changelog/6283445.html

Without any sort of announcement, LJ/SUP removed the 'special' interests filter. Same way they put it in.

Are they not aware that this is a social service? Apparently we are all mushrooms.

LJ/SUP quietly removes filter

http://community.livejournal.com/changelog/6283445.html

Without any sort of announcement, LJ/SUP removed the 'special' interests filter. Same way they put it in.

Are they not aware that this is a social service? Apparently we are all mushrooms.

Books

_Spider Star_, Mike Brotherton

( Tau Zero + Mote in God's Eye ) = Spider Star
Actually, there are a lot of similarities there to be exploited. Some other Anderson and N&P collabs seem apropos as well. Let's put it this way: this is the modern equivalent of those early 70s 'hard-SF' novels. The feel is more Anderson, the plot is N&P in the middle.

All of this can be regarded as Good. Not great, but solidly good.

I note the presence of two alpha-male viewpoints, who do not engage in a fistfight or a political war. Both are competently heroic. Women seem to be relegated to advisory and inspirational roles by accident, rather than design.

This may not be very coherent because I am running a fever. It took me several hours to read some few pages, and that is not the author's fault.

Books

_Spider Star_, Mike Brotherton

( Tau Zero + Mote in God's Eye ) = Spider Star
Actually, there are a lot of similarities there to be exploited. Some other Anderson and N&P collabs seem apropos as well. Let's put it this way: this is the modern equivalent of those early 70s 'hard-SF' novels. The feel is more Anderson, the plot is N&P in the middle.

All of this can be regarded as Good. Not great, but solidly good.

I note the presence of two alpha-male viewpoints, who do not engage in a fistfight or a political war. Both are competently heroic. Women seem to be relegated to advisory and inspirational roles by accident, rather than design.

This may not be very coherent because I am running a fever. It took me several hours to read some few pages, and that is not the author's fault.