"What's that? You want me to raise more food to support a military, a monarchy and/or priest caste? And they'll want to erect impressive durable structures that will basically serve to awe and oppress me?

No monumental seats of power and/or religious observance - perhaps, as a result or possibly a cause, the people at large didn't have to spend all their hours toiling in order to pay taxes to build huge structures, and so they could have time to play. :) Perhaps.

Big deal, for quite some time cleave has meant to separate and also to cling to and I don't see civilization crumbling. Well I do, but not for that reason.

Dicebox! Molly and Griffen - yes, they're married, but as friends. It's a rare, though legally recognized bond, which is a pretty awesome feature of this universe. :)

In the Thursday Next series,

For all those remarking that `movies did it first' - well, this is not a new concept! In live theater through the centuries there often were prolouges and epilogues, acknowledging the audience. Less common for the main story to have characters doing so during the story itself, but it happened. In comedy,…

Well OK! I got rather impatient with it about midway, myself, I admit peeking at the end as I sometimes do with mysteries.

And good luck with the not-reading-deep-into-the-night ambition! :)

Hmm, yes, I think that the rules for projectiles is revealed eventually - and, yes, there is a fantastic element to it that you have to buy into.

However, as to the concept itself, I'm reminded of unseeing every time I'm in a locker room, or passing a homeless person on the street, for instance. It is extended to a…

The City and the City is, I think, a bit dense - but for this reader, I kept going and it payed off.

May I comment here on the premiere event, if I label it spoilers?

ZOMG were you at Hayden planetarium too?

Now that I've written it out, I realize there's no real rebels in this one, that are mentioned in the main narrative, anyhow... but I think it may be close enough?

Nominating - Settamaksimin, aka Maks to his friends, in Blue Magic by Jo Clayton.

Elanor Arnason's A Woman of the Iron People, though I don't think the humanoid pictured is quite as the book describes. In fact it's one of the most hilariously not-at-all-related to the actual content book covers I've seen.

It's an interesting and harrowing question generally. Art revels in borrowing and combining of styles. A problematic thing with that is, historically and currently, people of the cultures that have the greatest world dominance-clout (usually white), who appropriate the art* of aboriginal cultures, tend to have more…

Thanks for linking to those articles, Anemone. Thorny questions, indeed...

Folks, if you're perplexed as to what this is about, I suggest reading at least the first few pages of the ipic.ca paper to get some sense of it.

I'm sure I'm forgetting plenty -
but a contender for most weirdly mind-stretching is in the Varley's story collection The Barbie Murders, "Equinoctial" about Parameter and Solstice, a human/symb pairing.

Aw. Damn! I really like the sci fi I've read by her - Remnant Population and Once a Hero, for instance. Is it the more fantasy toned stuff that's icky?

Oh c'mon, when your undies match your boots and gloves, why keep it to yourself? :D

Totally yes!

Well, the Heartless, Brainless, and Coward roles don't have gender specified in this announcement - could be multiple changes. And Gilda's girl army could get involved - or General Jinjur!!
Uh, we can hope. maybe.