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7. I comfort myself with the idea that we wake up as slightly different people every day.

Thu May 31, 2012, 01:17 AM

May 2012

That way, I can still love the Dan Simmons that wrote the Hyperion series while pitying the one that walks the earth in 2012.

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So I'm reading Flashback by Dan Simmons. The setting is [View all] hedgehog May 2012 OP

Quoting him: "In a word . . . no. In two words . . . hell no." getting old in mke May 2012 #1

I don't buy it. hedgehog May 2012 #2

He believes it. He's one of the viler writers out there. Posteritatis May 2012 #3

Dan Simmonds jambo101 May 2012 #5

I think it was published in 2011 hedgehog May 2012 #6

Well, shit. There's another author down the tubes. semillama Jun 2012 #8

Thoroughly. Posteritatis Jun 2012 #9

well, at least we still have David Brin. n/t semillama Jun 2012 #10

Sadly, most of what wingnuts genuinely believe is just that OTT Bucky Jun 2012 #11