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BESW

12:14 AM

@Nnedi Nikki Giovanni poem

Tweeted by MamaMeelah on April 17, 2018 at 10:36 PM in reply to Nnedi

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Tweeted by NABookPodcast on April 10, 2018 at 9:12 PM

"Spring Fiction Has Sprung: Submission Roundup for April 2018," by Gwendolyn Kiste

- THE POPPY WAR is out in 15 days (totally not coincidentally, on the first day of AAPI Heritage Month) - It's getting really rave reviews!!! - If you preorder, I'll tweet you a line from Book 2 with no context - If you can't afford it, ask your library to get it! - 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Tweeted by kuangrf on April 16, 2018 at 9:10 PM

Hey @Ash, another book rec thread:

Looking for contemporary sci-fi / speculative fiction suggestions in the vein of Octavia butler and Ursula Le Guin as I fantasize about summer and compile my beach reading list

Tweeted by spacecrone on April 17, 2018 at 9:04 PM

BESW

12:43 AM

Reading books recs... "The protagonist is sentenced to carrying a sloth with her at all times." SOLD. Sign me up.

user15026

12:54 AM

@BESW wait what is thiiiis

BESW

Zoo City, by Lauren Beukes. From the thread above.

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BESW

2:12 AM

The City Born Great, a short story by N.K. Jemisin at tor.com

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BESW

4:17 AM

Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance, by Tobias S. Buckell.

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Rand al'Thor

8:58 AM

@BESW VTC: duplicate :-)

@Bookworm VTCed as recommendation, even though it's about a single book.

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Bookworm

2:44 PM

Q: What current events could compare to Ishmael Beah's "A Long Way Gone"?

What current events going on in 2018 are similar to an extent to Ishmael Beah's memoir "A Long Way Gone"?

story-identification

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BESW

9:35 PM

"And Then There Were (N-One)," by Sarah Pinsker in Uncanny Magazine.

Bookworm

9:51 PM

Q: ideas for short story?

Is there anybody here who can suggest me a good short story which is suitable for story telling? like "Young Good Man Brown", "Tell Tale Heart", "Metamorphosos", or"The Garden Party"? I need a story which has deep and philosophical analysis. like what I mentioned above. please!

history-of-literature story-of-your-life

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Bookworm

11:09 PM

Q: In what novels is the only dialogue internal?

I use the word "dialogue" here to include monologue insofar as a person who is speaking to themselves, either out loud or internally, is still speaking to a person even if they are not addressing somebody else. If we count writing as "speech", then an epistolary novel that takes the form of a col...