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    <title>The New Rude Masters of Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction – and Romance | The World Remains Mysterious</title>
    <dc:date>2020-01-01T12:18:00+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Many SF writers are used to being the most liberal voice in the room, the proponents of the wildest and wackiest things. But as time has passed, as is the way of things, the boundaries have been stretched farther, and what was once-wild now looks tame at times. There are new forces in the world. And now some of those previously outrageous, convention-challenging voices are putting their energy into protecting the conventions and social mores they created from any further change.

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<dc:subject>cultural-norms cultural-dynamics ingroup-outgroup-dynamics liberalism fascism people-are-bad-at-systems-thinking science-fiction reactionaries Romancelandia</dc:subject>
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    <title>net.wars: We know where you should live</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[John Hancock doesn't mention it, but there are some obvious caveats about these figures. First of all, the program began in 2015. How does the company have data showing its users live so much longer? Doesn't that suggest that these users were living longer *before* they adopted the program? Which leads to the second point: the segment of the population that has wearable fitness trackers and smartphones tends to be more affluent (which tends to favor better health already) and more focused on their health to begin with (ditto). I can see why an insurance company would like me to "engage with" its program twice a day, but I can't see why I would want to. Insurance companies are not my *friends*.

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    <title>Morphosis: What is Doctor Who?</title>
    <dc:date>2018-09-20T11:35:52+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[All this is a roundabout way of saying: I have some specific hopes for the new female Who. It certainly seems to me that many of the reactionaries who greeted the news of her casting with howls of outrage were only partly motivated by misogyny (though of course they were motivated by that); they were trying, with the hysterical volume of their complaining, to rally to the defence of class itself as a defining feature of British self-identity. It will be interesting to see how Whittaker and her scriptwriters take the character, and to what extent the role can be reconfigured to escape this particular straitjacket.
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    <dc:date>2017-12-16T21:10:02+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>The Sci-Fi Roots of the Far Right—From ‘Lucifer’s Hammer’ to Newt’s Moon Base to Donald’s Wall</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-23T11:20:58+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In Lucifer’s Hammer, the free-thinking libertarian survivors, naturally, win the day over their wrong-thinking competition. The hippy-dippy Shire collective, who attempt to rebuild society according to principles of socialism and environmentalism, is wiped out because of its weakness, forced to submit to the cannibalistic New Brotherhood Army—led by the inhumane Sergeant Hooker, a black man. Strong leader Senator Jellison (who is white) then asks former Shire founder Hugo Beck what went wrong, and Beck says his fellow hippies just never realized how great technology and laissez-faire economics were, and now all his old friends are dining on human flesh under the thumb of a scary black communist.
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As for my account of my argument with Nicole, I’ve tried to make it as accurate as I possibly could. I’ve been recording everything since I started working on this project, and I’ve consulted the recordings repeatedly when writing this. But in my choice of which details to include and which to omit, perhaps I have just constructed another story. In spite of my efforts to be unflinching, have I flattered myself with this portrayal? Have I distorted events so they more closely follow the arc expected of a confessional narrative? The only way you can judge is by comparing my account against the recordings themselves, so I’m doing something I never thought I’d do: with Nicole’s permission, I am granting public access to my lifelog, such as it is. Take a look at the video, and decide for yourself.

And if you think I’ve been less than honest, tell me. I want to know.

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    <title>Why a Star Trek film would never work | An und für sich</title>
    <dc:date>2014-08-22T12:44:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://itself.wordpress.com/2014/08/13/why-a-star-trek-film-would-never-work/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Supposedly the third film will be in outer space — but I’ll believe it when I see it. In fact, I would bet any amount of money that it reprises the earth-based time-travel plot of The Voyage Home. You can’t go where no one has gone before when — just like all the many comic book “reboots” we’ve witnessed in recent years — your entire enterprise depends on forcing the raw materials of an entertainment franchise into the repetitive and self-referential formula of a “white messiah” Hollywood blockbuster plot.

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    <title>Friday Five: Five Works of Early Speculative Fiction by African American Authors - pornokitsch</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-27T11:59:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.pornokitsch.com/2014/02/friday-five-five-works-of-early-speculative-fiction-by-african-american-authors.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[American speculative fiction has always had a diversity problem, but it has never been a whites-only genre. Long before Samuel R. Delany, N. K. Jemisin, or Janelle Monae, African Americans have been using speculative tropes to examine our world and imagine another.

So here, for your reading pleasure, are five works of pre-1940 speculative fiction by African Americans, ranging from eerie regionalist tales; to hidden empire polemics; to technocratic pulp adventures.

To be clear, this list of five (well, six) is neither exhaustive nor all that representative, but rather idiosyncratic - these are five examples that I’ve read. So I’ve left off Martin Delany’s Blake; or the Huts of America (1859/1861-2) –with its speculation about a mass slave rebellion in Cuba – for the simple fact that I’ve never read it.

In short: you should only use these five as a jumping off point - and there are even more to find.

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    <title>Is it okay to shun Orson Scott Card now? | Ordinary Times</title>
    <dc:date>2013-08-18T15:29:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/blog/2013/08/16/is-it-okay-to-shun-orson-scott-card-now</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Look, if you guys want to go and watch movies adapted from the works of a guy who writes shit that’s on the same level of Protocols of the Elders of Zion that’s great. But let’s at least acknowledge that’s what this guy’s recent work boils down to.

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<dc:subject>culture-war science-fiction all-the-old-bulls</dc:subject>
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    <title>Le Guin’s Hypothesis | Book View Cafe Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-25T22:28:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bookviewcafe.com/blog/2012/06/18/le-guin-s-hypothesis/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Genre Fiction as FixFic]]></description>
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    <title>It Evolved Into Birds: Ten Science-Fictional Thinkers On the Past and Future of Cyberpunk | Motherboard</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-07T10:55:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/6/6/it-evolved-into-birds-ten-science-fictional-thinkers-on-the-past-and-future-of-cyberpunk</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["But the ideas originally behind that trope — now that’s the cool part. My friends who work in aerospace tell me the old guys who built the industry all grew up reading Heinlein and Clarke, and went into aerospace to turn those crazy things they read as kids into practical realities as adults. Well, I work in supercomputing, and I can assure you that this industry is full of young geniuses who grew up reading Gibson, Vinge, and Rucker — and yes, me — and they went into this field to do the same thing.

We don’t quite live in the world that cyberpunk fiction predicted. But we live in the world that the kids who grew up reading cyberpunk fiction built, and that is a very cool thing indeed."]]></description>
<dc:subject>cyberpunk fiction genre retrospective science-fiction cultural-norms</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:ff21a627abeb/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/06/announcing-the-2011-locus-award-winners?">
    <title>Announcing the 2011 Locus Award Winners | Tor.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-03T12:18:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/06/announcing-the-2011-locus-award-winners?</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The winners of 2011 Locus Awards were announced this afternoon in Seattle, Washington. Congratulations to all the nominees and winners. We are, of course, especially excited that Tor Books won for “Best Publisher.” All our thanks go out to this wonderful community of readers, authors, and artists."]]></description>
<dc:subject>science-fiction Locus to-read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:6575d0953ed6/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:to-read"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ifyoulivedherebook.com/">
    <title>If You Lived Here</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-02T12:52:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ifyoulivedherebook.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["How can you help? We're looking for readers' all-time favorite secondary worlds, from Middle Earth to Ring World, from Dune to Lankhmar and beyond...

We're taking nominations now. Just fill out the form below and submit it. That simple. If you feel like waxing poetic about your favorite second world, we might ask you if we can use what you write when it's time to go to press. Regardless, we'll keep you updated about which worlds get picked, and about the book as it gets closer to publication."]]></description>
<dc:subject>science-fiction collaboration writing worldbuilding history</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:fe23f4b7675e/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:writing"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/05/the-urge-to-flee-the-theater-what-district-9-taught-the-world?utm_source=Feedburner%3A+Frontpage+Partial+RSS+Feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torcom%2FFrontpage_Partial+%28Tor.com+Frontpage+Partial+-+Blog+and+Stories%29">
    <title>The Urge to Flee the Theater: What District 9 Taught the World | tor.com | Science fiction and fantasy | Blog posts</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-27T11:08:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/05/the-urge-to-flee-the-theater-what-district-9-taught-the-world?utm_source=Feedburner%3A+Frontpage+Partial+RSS+Feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torcom%2FFrontpage_Partial+%28Tor.com+Frontpage+Partial+-+Blog+and+Stories%29</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Wickus escaped and I remained in my seat, but I will never forget how powerful that emotion was, how I sat there gulping air for the next ten minutes as I tried to regain some kind of equilibrium. This film had put me through something brutal, something I hadn’t been prepared for.

This film was absolutely right to do that.

The direct allegory running through the story is easy to recognize: District 9 is a reference to District 6, an area in South Africa where 60,000 colored Africans were evicted from their homes in during apartheid in the 1970s. The atrocious behavior of MNU’s employees and their thirst for better firepower is a commentary on the private military contractors being used by governments today, specifically Xe Services (formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide). Choosing to zero in on these two topics seems logical: the film was set and shot in South Africa and the potential problems associated with military contractors are a modern concern."]]></description>
<dc:subject>science-fiction literature literary-criticism movie District-9</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b31716260534/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://iansales.com/2010/02/11/dumping-on-your-readers/">
    <title>Dumping on your readers « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…</title>
    <dc:date>2010-02-19T14:49:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://iansales.com/2010/02/11/dumping-on-your-readers/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Yes, make it part of the narrative. But even then, you’re often still explaining something which doesn’t really need explaining. Does it matter how the hyperspace drive works if all it needs to do is to get the protagonist from A to B? Too much exposition in science fiction stories has nothing to do with the story – it’s the author showing off their setting. For many readers, this is required. It’s immersion."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:io9 writing exposition advice novels science-fiction aesthetic-norms narrative</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://airminded.org/2009/11/29/the-superweapon-and-the-anglo-american-imagination-iii/">
    <title>Airminded · The superweapon and the Anglo-American imagination — III</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-29T15:59:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://airminded.org/2009/11/29/the-superweapon-and-the-anglo-american-imagination-iii/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[awesome
]]></description>
<dc:subject>illustration engineering retrofuture weaponry science-fiction steampunk</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:7efb716f5e0d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.3989">
    <title>[0910.3989] Naming the extrasolar planets</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-11T21:12:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.3989</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Extrasolar planets are not named and are referred to only by their assigned scientific designation. The reason given by the IAU to not name the planets is that it is considered impractical as planets are expected to be common. I advance some reasons as to why this logic is flawed, and suggest names for the 403 extrasolar planet candidates known as of Oct 2009. The names follow a scheme of association with the constellation that the host star pertains to, and therefore are mostly drawn from Roman-Greek mythology. Other mythologies may also be used given that a suitable association is established."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>astronomy science-fiction naming conventions cultural-norms</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:7202009bbc60/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/313130/in_praise_of_the_scifi_corridor.html">
    <title>In praise of the sci-fi corridor - Den of Geek</title>
    <dc:date>2009-09-05T12:23:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/313130/in_praise_of_the_scifi_corridor.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Corridors make science-fiction believable, because they're so utilitarian by nature - really they're just a conduit to get from one (often overblown) set to another. So if any thought or love is put into one, if the production designer is smart enough to realise that corridors are the foundation on which larger sets are 'sold' to viewers, movie magic is close at hand."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>science-fiction set-decoration design graphic-design industrial-design movies detail</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:90b50da7ed9e/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:design"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.penguicon.org/">
    <title>Penguicon Science Fiction and Open Source Convention</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-09T13:45:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.penguicon.org/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Penguicon 7.0 will be May 1 through 3, 2009, at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Romulus, Michigan."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>geeks convention science-fiction blogging conferences Detroit Michigan open-source software Linux computers local</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:c6747cd636cf/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:software"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:Linux"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ideomancer.com/main/ideoMain.htm">
    <title>i d e o m a n c e r</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-05T12:35:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ideomancer.com/main/ideoMain.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><dc:subject>speculative-fiction publishing online science-fiction genre-fiction</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:aefe8e0e572c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:science-fiction"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/">
    <title>Clarkesworld Magazine — Issue 30</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-05T12:34:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><dc:subject>science-fiction genre-fiction publishing business-model writing authors online fiction</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:d94bbb959012/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=blog&amp;id=6871">
    <title>Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Political agency and changing the world</title>
    <dc:date>2008-10-07T17:47:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=blog&amp;id=6871</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In fact, if romances are fantasies of love, and mysteries are fantasies of justice, I would now describe much SF as fantasies of political agency. All three genres also may embody themes of personal psychological empowerment, of course, though often very different in the details, as contrasted by the way the heroines “win” in romances, the way detectives “win” in mysteries, and the way, say, young male characters “win” in adventure tales. But now that I’ve noticed the politics in SF, they seem to be everywhere, like packs of little yapping dogs trying to savage your ankles. Not universally, thank heavens—there are wonderful lyrical books such as The Last Unicorn or other idiosyncratic tales that escape the trend. But certainly in the majority of books, to give the characters significance in the readers’ eyes means to give them political actions, with “military” read here as a sub-set of political."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>science-fiction politics fantasy romance fiction social-norms marketing genre</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:f207a640c393/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.fanderson.org.uk/fanderson.html">
    <title>Fanderson</title>
    <dc:date>2008-09-22T23:04:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.fanderson.org.uk/fanderson.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><dc:subject>via:kleverson Space:1999 fandom science-fiction television nostalgia</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:e8441b6f98be/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.finallyequal.com/">
    <title>Harrison Bergeron</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-26T11:47:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.finallyequal.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><dc:subject>Kurt-Vonnegut-Jr. movie cinema science-fiction commentary politics cultural-norms</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:ecb974d0d98f/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cinema"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:science-fiction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:commentary"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:politics"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://futurismic.com/2008/08/22/nostalgia-does-science-fiction-a-disservice/">
    <title>Nostalgia does science fiction a disservice | Blog | Futurismic</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-22T13:12:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://futurismic.com/2008/08/22/nostalgia-does-science-fiction-a-disservice/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><dc:subject>science-fiction style publishing recruitment marketing classics tyranny-of-canon</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:77aa9334af41/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.steveschofield.co.uk/gallery_scifi.html">
    <title>steve schofield – © 2007</title>
    <dc:date>2008-07-09T23:47:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.steveschofield.co.uk/gallery_scifi.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[via Ectoplasmosis. BE SURE TO SEE RIGHTMOST PICTURE, SIXTH ROW
]]></description>
<dc:subject>photography portfolio portraiture science-fiction fandom cultural-norms</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:cac5bee9e522/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:science-fiction"/>
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