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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 22:42:25 JST Charlie Stross

   New blog entry: Q: What SF/F genre tropes should I tackle next? https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/12/what-sff-genre-tropes-should-i.html

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 01:26:42 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Peter Brett

     @krans I am 100% allergic to "A long way to a small, angry planet". Anyway, the nearest I get to cosy is "Dead Lies Dreaming".

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     Peter Brett (krans@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 01:26:44 JST Peter Brett

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     @cstross How about “Cosy sci-fi”, a la ‘A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet’

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 01:27:48 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Dark Observer

     @darkobserver So would I! But right now I'm bogged down doing edits to "The Regicide Report". Finishing the space opera can wait (TRR has an actual publication date).

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     Dark Observer (darkobserver@ioc.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 01:27:49 JST Dark Observer

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     @cstross I for one would like to read that long-postponed new space opera you've been hinting at

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 03:22:04 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Talin

     @talin That's been done A LOT. (For example: Asimov's "Pebble in the Sky" (pub. 1950).)

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     Talin (talin@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 03:22:05 JST Talin

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     @cstross For many years I have had in my mind a theme which you would be the perfect author for: "What if Earth were a third-world country?"

     (There's a lot more to it, but I know authors don't like to get suggestions from readers).