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Note to future self:
Never send someone who doesn't read outside a very narrow section of SF (hard SF, mostly) your space opera novel to beta read. The resulting commentary full of insults that you don't know how to write and that stories that don't focus on the technology aren't "really SF" is not only not helpful but rage-making, and you will have to figure out the most polite way to say, "You have no idea what you're talking about" without coming across as That Writer saying "You just doooon't understaaaaaaand my viiiiiision."
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Never send someone who doesn't read outside a very narrow section of SF (hard SF, mostly) your space opera novel to beta read. The resulting commentary full of insults that you don't know how to write and that stories that don't focus on the technology aren't "really SF" is not only not helpful but rage-making, and you will have to figure out the most polite way to say, "You have no idea what you're talking about" without coming across as That Writer saying "You just doooon't understaaaaaaand my viiiiiision."
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Date: 2011-08-19 02:32 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2011-08-19 02:52 pm (UTC)From:He pretty much excluded about half of what's been published as science fiction over the last twenty years.
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Date: 2011-08-19 04:50 pm (UTC)From:Also, have you read Cyteen by Cherryh? I just started it and was not at all expecting the contents of the first part of the book.
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Date: 2011-08-19 08:31 pm (UTC)From:She really likes psychological themes.
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Date: 2011-08-20 06:07 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2011-08-20 06:58 pm (UTC)From: