Posts Tagged ‘if I were king’

Now I’m Going To Have To Reread The Prince

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

I heard quite a lot–references and allusions–about Machiavelli during my early teen years, and that lead me to get around to reading The Prince at some point during my time living in Switzerland–I was 16 at the time. I remember being impressed and amused by the book, and by what I knew about how it [...]

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If I Were Nebu-lord

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

For what it’s worth, if I were picking the winners of the Nebula Awards right now (not the ones I think will win, but rather the ones I thought were the best) from the preliminary ballot the winners, according to my arbitrary and would be: For novel, either Hal Duncan‘s brilliant mess Vellum, or else [...]

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