AndrewLiptak

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Substack adds custom URLs for posts(blog.substack.com)
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Has search in Facebook been off lately for anyone else?
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Failed State's Christopher Brown on techno optimism and building utopias(andrewliptak.substack.com)
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Insightful interview with Kim Stanley Robinson about plausible utopias(eliotpeper.com)
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by AndrewLiptak 6y ago
It sounds like Watts was really into it, and helped guide some of the design process. But yeah, any adaptation will have differences between creator and adaptor.
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by AndrewLiptak 6y ago
I was just thinking this! Remember the days when this happened every other week?
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Not working for me.
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Some enterprising fans went and adapted Peter Watts' Blindsight as a short film(tor.com)
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by AndrewLiptak 6y ago
This is really interesting! I remember Joe Hill mentioning that he did something like this with some classics: he wanted to learn how to write like some other authors, and it's one of those things that's always stuck with me as so
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by AndrewLiptak 6y ago
I've seen Richard Browning fly this in person — he did a demo a couple of years ago at San Diego Comic-Con. It's unreal to watch, but it's definitely something I can see not being all that widespread: it takes a lot of traini
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by AndrewLiptak 6y ago
I recently read Parable of the Sower for the first time (wrote about it here: https://andrewliptak.substack.com/p/three-novels-about-unbal... ) and really was blown away by it.
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by AndrewLiptak 6y ago
Thanks! It's been fun to dive into the history of how the entire thing came together.
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I'm working on a podcast about the history of Frank Herbert's Dune(andrewliptak.substack.com)
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by AndrewLiptak 6y ago
*Foreword
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Science fiction and fantasy books to check out August 2020(andrewliptak.substack.com)
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Ernie Cline's sequel to Ready Player One will be released in November(hollywoodreporter.com)
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by AndrewLiptak 6y ago
I absolutely love Jemisin's books. The City We Became is really fantastic.
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Production is moving, but what struck me (and what made me think HN readers would be interested in it) was that the business seems to have fallen victim to a classic problem in business: being sold to people who don't understand the cu
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by AndrewLiptak 6y ago
Fortunately, the space is being taken up by another brewery, Zero Gravity (which produces really great beer), and I believe that they're picking up some of their employees. I honestly don't think it's detrimental to the indus
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Magic hat leaves behind a transformed craft beer industry in Vermont(sevendaysvt.com)
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by AndrewLiptak 6y ago
A bunch of books: Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (as well as several of the sequels), American Gods by Neil Gaiman, The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, The Magicians by Lev Grossman, Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, Harry Potter by J.
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Sci-Fi author John Scalzi on pandemics and the collapse of civilizations(andrewliptak.substack.com)
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by AndrewLiptak 6y ago
In the last year, I wrote a nonfiction book (History of Cosplay, coming sometime next year, if all goes well), and spend much of last summer conducting research. When it came time to write, I kept stalling out. What I ended up doing was shi
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by AndrewLiptak 6y ago
I've found Duotrope is useful for tracking down science fiction and fantasy outlets if you're looking to place stories in a professional setting. I've written a bunch of short stories over the years. Some I've trunked af
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Yeah! It's a really fascinating thing.
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The Mandalorian wouldn't be what it was without Mandalorian cosplay groups(polygon.com)
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by AndrewLiptak 7y ago
I've found much of the same problem: I'm someone who's easily distracted anyway, and it's frustrating not being able to read. Here's what I've found works for me, for books and articles: - For books, setting as