Tom’s Comments (group member since Mar 06, 2010)

Tom’s comments from the The Sword and Laser group.

Thanks boss!!

John (Taloni) wrote: "Listening now, riffin' as I go...

* At about the 5:30 Mark Tom says "dark and spooky." Which was my daughter's favorite phrase for any room less than fully lit when she was about eight "It's dark ..."

Trike wrote: "Ruth wrote: "Iain wrote: Twas I who bad mouthed Chakrobarty. NO need to slander the Ruths.."

Thank you Iain! I came to the podcast to have a good time and I felt very attacked!"

You’ll probably g..."

Interesting to note when I said something it's Tom said" but when Veronica said it it's "they said." ....

Sad news followed by recommendations from Parade Magazine! And The Booker Short List. Plus, do you hate it when a series isn't continuing the story directly? And we check in on our September read of Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh.

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Paul wrote: "Tom wrote: "These are all from the same source that was found in question the first time. I think we should wait until we get it from a more proven source to talk about it much on the show.,."

Wel..." Is that a different podcast or the one from Tortoise Media. I read that rolling Stone article and seemed to rely on Tortoise for everything. Tortosie seems legit but it is one source and with something this big I'd like to see a little more is all.

Paul wrote: "Allegations of preditory behaviour from Neil Gaiman have been piling up. 4 women have made allegations of sexual abuse and now two people have gone on the record about it, including an NDA that inv..."

These are all from the same source that was found in question the first time. I think we should wait until we get it from a more proven source to talk about it much on the show.

Intersting point Gary. I’m a quinquagenarian straight cis white guy who worked in Tech my whole life, married to a Southeast Asian woman and I studied Russian in college.

I found the stories complex and at times opaque but I was fascinated them. They didn't remind me much of anything Asian most of the time, but more like a Lovecraft or Ballard.

Seth wrote: "Ruth wrote: "A bit too weird and gross for me so I’m noping out, at least for now...."

I think I'm with you. I don't do well with horror."

So far it's more gross than horror.

Ruth wrote: "Well I had a look at the kindle preview and the first story was about a woman being menaced by a creature in the toilet which was made of her own faeces and called her mother. A bit too weird and g..."

The second story is about menstruation gone wild. So it doesn't really calm down from there.

Having grown up with a Brazilian and Peruvian telling my Dad in the 1980s that they found it annoying that people from the US exclusively used "American" to refer to themselves has always lived in my mnind as an example that using American only to refer to the US is rather inaccurate and exclusive. It is new to me to hear of people being upset at being called American when they are not because I have in fact never heard of such a thing. However if you mean people from Canada or Mexico being mistaken for being from the US and being assumed to be "American" then I totally understand what you mean.

Yeah. I’m going to beat myself up because I know what Britain is and I knew what I meant to say when I said that which was it’s not even all of Britain. Sigh. This is just the way my brain works. It will fade after a few days. Thanks for being understanding.

I’m still entirely bugged about this because I do know my geography and I know the differences very well. Like I literally can’t sleep right now I’m so mad about it. And I don’t even remember what I said. All I can do is threaten that if any of you confuse Illinois Iowa and Indiana I will not go easy on you. ;)

I was fairly certain I said Ireland didn't love being lumped in with the British Isles, which was just an opinion mind you and that Scotland and Ireland wouldn't really love being lumped in with the English. But maybe I made a verbal typo and said Britain?

In any case I know all of this very well and try my best to be an example of the person not from there who does know it so it pains me greatly that I failed. I think from now on I'll just say I don't know anything. It's easier. ;)

Iain wrote: "Ruth wrote: I don’t think there’s an “official” definition of space opera, but I think of it as science fiction stories that are heavy on the fiction and light on the science, with things like gala..."

You say Opera, I say Opry

Tamahome wrote: "If Rebecca Yarros and Sarah J. Maas had a fight, who would win?"

Love

Jan wrote: "There is a press release on business wire titled "iwot and D1srupt1ve Join Forces as True Source to Unleash AI Magic on “The Wheel of Time”®" and I need Tom to decipher the press release! Help!

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A company that uses number ones instead of the letter I is creating a chat bot trained on the Wheel of Time series. Coming to the Web, Android and iOS. It will have a freemium model.

Kevin wrote: "It still hurts me in my soul to hear people I like and respect say the gave 4th Wing five stars. This book was so repulsively bad it damaged me personally. Now every time I see anyone I don't like ..."

I'd like to think we can all tolerate folks having differences of opinion on things. That's one of the things I hope this book club is all about.

Me here. Same thing Tamahome said.

Tamahome wrote: "And ducks are gluten free."

Unless you feed them bread

The only real bread is made in Korea (ducks)

terpkristin wrote: "Is it possible to mix up where y'all ask for suggestions for books? The last few (fair few) have been on Discord, but not everybody uses Discord (or at least the S&L one). Maybe one month Discord, ..."

Yeah sure