This week’s novella covered by the Facebook Group reading Gardner Dozois’s big anthology first discussed here is “Griffin’s Egg” by Michael Swanwick. It was first published as a “chapbook,” a smallish, thin book in a UK publisher’s series of such books, in 1991, and was reprinted in Asimov’s SF magazine’s May 1992 issue. Among other places, it’s also included in The Best of Michael Swanwick from 2008; the other four stories reviewed below are in this book as well.
About secularism, elections, misogyny and education, publishing ‘errors’, Trump supporters’ plans, and the real America.
Here’s an opinion piece in WaPo from a few days ago that acknowledges that what conservatives fear is true.
Washington Post, Paul Waldman, 25 Aug 2022: Conservatives think education is a threat. They’re right.
This week’s novella covered by the Facebook Group reading Gardner Dozois’s big anthology first discussed here is “Beggars in Spain” by Nancy Kress, first published in the April 1991 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction.
First, a Facebook video I’ve seen linked by my Fb friends several times.
Remember, these people’s votes count as much as yours or mine.
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