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Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

In the lead story in this month's Ansible, OSC's essay on gay marriage is referred to as crushingly final.

Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :

I'm really suprised townhall.com hasn't noticed Orson and invited him aboard.

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

This is the first I've heard about the Anisble. Or even the ansible. That's a heck of a Freudian slip, if you pronounce it out loud.

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

Oops, good catch pooka. Ansible. It's a great publication--I've had a subscription to the email version for a few years now.

Posted by docmagik (Member # 1131) on :

The author, David Langford, started out as a fanzine author, but won a Hugo for "Different Kinds Of Darkness," possibly my favorite Hugo story of the last ten years.

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

I don't think I've read it. Can you point me to an anthology that I'd be able to find it in?

Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :

I'm not sure what they mean by "crushingly final". Does that mean they think it is the be all end all position that is irrefutable?

If so, thats just plain BS.

The point he quoted was so "irrefutable" that not a single hatracker defends it here its so ridiculous. If that post was made on hatrack by a regular poster, it would be torn apart for logical and factual fallacies (well, actually, it was anyway). So I would hardly call it "final" by any stretch of the imagination.

But if they meant it to be that it was a crushing blow to those of us who are saddened by the views of someone whose work they have loved, then I agree completely.

[ March 08, 2004, 08:50 AM: Message edited by: Xavier ]

Posted by docmagik (Member # 1131) on :

I first read it in one of the David G. Hartwell anthologies . . . Lemme check which one.

It was Year's Best 6.

Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :

Xavier, I think the Ansible is a British fanzine. The Brits are renowned for being masters of, how to put it, subtle sarcasm. [Wink]

Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :

Okay [Smile]

.

I wasn't sure what the deal was I must admit.

*sigh*

I have been awake far too long. Sleep awaits me.

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

Thanks doc, I'll pick it up next time I'm at the library (or a used bookstore that happens to carry it).