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by: James Nicoll - Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:13 UTC

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by: Quadibloc - Wed, 20 Jul 2022 22:58 UTC

I notice that Flash #123 is illustrated by the cover of a reprint edition.

Cute, adding Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the case in
which Trump's Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, in a footnoote to a
discussion of Shadow of Earth.

John Savard

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by: Quadibloc - Wed, 20 Jul 2022 23:02 UTC

On Wednesday, July 20, 2022 at 4:58:59 PM UTC-6, Quadibloc wrote:
> I notice that Flash #123 is illustrated by the cover of a reprint edition.

The original is pictured here:

https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/The_Flash_Vol_1_123

John Savard

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by: Andrew McDowell - Thu, 21 Jul 2022 04:13 UTC

On Monday, July 18, 2022 at 4:13:23 PM UTC+1, James Nicoll wrote:
> The World Next Door: 5 SFF Stories That Travel to Alternate Earths
> https://www.tor.com/2022/07/18/the-world-next-door-5-sff-stories-that-travel-to-alternate-earths/
>
> This is pretty self explanatory. I should go mention Sidewise in
> Time in comments...
> --
> My reviews can be found at http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/
> My tor pieces at https://www.tor.com/author/james-davis-nicoll/
> My Dreamwidth at https://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/
> My patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/jamesdnicoll

For an adventure story set in alternate earth, I recommend Stirling's "Conquistador"

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by: Lynn McGuire - Thu, 21 Jul 2022 20:03 UTC

On 7/20/2022 11:13 PM, Andrew McDowell wrote:
> On Monday, July 18, 2022 at 4:13:23 PM UTC+1, James Nicoll wrote:
>> The World Next Door: 5 SFF Stories That Travel to Alternate Earths
>> https://www.tor.com/2022/07/18/the-world-next-door-5-sff-stories-that-travel-to-alternate-earths/
>>
>> This is pretty self explanatory. I should go mention Sidewise in
>> Time in comments...
>> --
>> My reviews can be found at http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/
>> My tor pieces at https://www.tor.com/author/james-davis-nicoll/
>> My Dreamwidth at https://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/
>> My patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/jamesdnicoll
>
> For an adventure story set in alternate earth, I recommend Stirling's "Conquistador"

Steven Gould's "Wildside" is awesome.

And so is Dennis Taylor's "Outland".

And Orson Scott Card's new "Wakers" book is very good too.

Lynn

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by: Christian Weisgerber - Fri, 22 Jul 2022 17:20 UTC

On 2022-07-18, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

> The World Next Door: 5 SFF Stories That Travel to Alternate Earths
> https://www.tor.com/2022/07/18/the-world-next-door-5-sff-stories-that-travel-to-alternate-earths/

| It was pointed out to me that I overlooked an obvious alternative to
| implausible faster-than-light travel in this essay: there’s no need to
| travel long distances to visit extrasolar worlds if one can simply step
| from one version of Earth to another version.

Which is why working physicist John Cramer used this (at least)
twice:

_Twistor_
http://home.pages.de/~naddy/reviews/Twistor.html

_Einstein's Bridge_
http://home.pages.de/~naddy/reviews/EinsteinsBridge.html

I'm pointing to my old reviews because I don't really remember the
novels at this point.

--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de

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[tor dot com] The World Next Door: 5 SFF Stories That Travel to Alternate Earths	James Nicoll
Re: [tor dot com] The World Next Door: 5 SFF Stories That Travel to	Quadibloc
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Re: [tor dot com] The World Next Door: 5 SFF Stories That Travel to	Andrew McDowell
Re: [tor dot com] The World Next Door: 5 SFF Stories That Travel to	Lynn McGuire
Re: [tor dot com] The World Next Door: 5 SFF Stories That Travel to	Christian Weisgerber