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by Nancy Kress
Who uses, recommends or left Crossfire, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
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Mind candy, at the police procedural / psychic vigilante / shadowy nefarious conspiracy triple point.
His monthly "Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur" post for November 2016 — the books he read that month and feels he can recommend.
2016-11-30·bactra.org ↗
Readable first-contacts novel, complicated by relativistic physics and Quakerism. The plot is has echoes of the great William Tenn's magnificent "The Liberation of Earth", though Kress is earnest where Tenn was satirical.
His monthly "Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur" post for March 2005 — the books he read that month and feels he can recommend.
2005-03-31·bactra.org ↗
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.