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	<title>Comments on: Meme-ness</title>
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	<description>...making my own great leap forward...</description>
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		<title>By: Jed</title>
		<link>http://www.jonathanstrahan.com.au/wp/2006/11/22/meme-ness/comment-page-1/#comment-13607</link>
		<dc:creator>Jed</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 03:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Belatedly, here&#039;s what I said elsewhere about the Shiras book:

&lt;i&gt;Children of the Atom&lt;/i&gt; is worth reading; it&#039;s a collection of a series of short stories about genius kids.  The first story, &quot;In Hiding,&quot; is a classic, and I think fairly important to the field even though most of it is probably old hat by now.  The series as a whole prefigured Nancy Kress&#039;s &quot;Beggars in Spain&quot; (and to some extent the novels that grew out of that), as well as the entire idea of the X-Men; &quot;outcast genius kids find each other&quot; is a classic sf theme, and &quot;In Hiding&quot; (1948) wasn&#039;t the first such story nor the best known (cf &lt;i&gt;Slan&lt;/i&gt;, 1940), but it was imo one of the best.  The Shiras stories after the first one aren&#039;t as good and aren&#039;t as important, except that the plot resolution of the overall story [or rather, the book] is one that I see as extremely rare in sf on this theme.  Also of possible interest: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.redjacketpress.com/authors/wilmar_shiras.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wilmar H. Shiras&lt;/a&gt; was one of the few women writing sf at the time, though she didn&#039;t write very much sf and wasn&#039;t nearly as well-known as some of the others.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Belatedly, here&#8217;s what I said elsewhere about the Shiras book:</p>
<p><i>Children of the Atom</i> is worth reading; it&#8217;s a collection of a series of short stories about genius kids.  The first story, &#8220;In Hiding,&#8221; is a classic, and I think fairly important to the field even though most of it is probably old hat by now.  The series as a whole prefigured Nancy Kress&#8217;s &#8220;Beggars in Spain&#8221; (and to some extent the novels that grew out of that), as well as the entire idea of the X-Men; &#8220;outcast genius kids find each other&#8221; is a classic sf theme, and &#8220;In Hiding&#8221; (1948) wasn&#8217;t the first such story nor the best known (cf <i>Slan</i>, 1940), but it was imo one of the best.  The Shiras stories after the first one aren&#8217;t as good and aren&#8217;t as important, except that the plot resolution of the overall story [or rather, the book] is one that I see as extremely rare in sf on this theme.  Also of possible interest: <a href="http://www.redjacketpress.com/authors/wilmar_shiras.html" rel="nofollow">Wilmar H. Shiras</a> was one of the few women writing sf at the time, though she didn&#8217;t write very much sf and wasn&#8217;t nearly as well-known as some of the others.</p>
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		<title>By: Nick Cowie &#187; SF Book club top 50 meme</title>
		<link>http://www.jonathanstrahan.com.au/wp/2006/11/22/meme-ness/comment-page-1/#comment-13394</link>
		<dc:creator>Nick Cowie &#187; SF Book club top 50 meme</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Via Jonathan, even though he has not done it yet. The list is the top 50 science fiction and fantasy books from 1953 to 2002 according to the SF Book Club. Bold the books you have read, strike through the books you hated, and as this is a blog, what would be a list without editorial comments. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Via Jonathan, even though he has not done it yet. The list is the top 50 science fiction and fantasy books from 1953 to 2002 according to the SF Book Club. Bold the books you have read, strike through the books you hated, and as this is a blog, what would be a list without editorial comments. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Peter Hollo</title>
		<link>http://www.jonathanstrahan.com.au/wp/2006/11/22/meme-ness/comment-page-1/#comment-13244</link>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hollo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 05:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Your life &quot;feel&#039;s&quot; complete? It may feel more complete with this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/groups/77173807@N00/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Flickr pool&lt;/a&gt;.

I am hereby flabbergasted that you&#039;ve read all but one of those books.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your life &#8220;feel&#8217;s&#8221; complete? It may feel more complete with this <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/77173807@N00/" rel="nofollow">Flickr pool</a>.</p>
<p>I am hereby flabbergasted that you&#8217;ve read all but one of those books.</p>
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		<title>By: Jonathan</title>
		<link>http://www.jonathanstrahan.com.au/wp/2006/11/22/meme-ness/comment-page-1/#comment-13239</link>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 05:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>urg. You got me, Mike. I wrote too quickly. Corrected now.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>urg. You got me, Mike. I wrote too quickly. Corrected now.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Walsh</title>
		<link>http://www.jonathanstrahan.com.au/wp/2006/11/22/meme-ness/comment-page-1/#comment-13237</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael Walsh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Willie Shiras? Her name was Wilmar Shiras.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Willie Shiras? Her name was Wilmar Shiras.</p>
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