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James Nicoll

January 01, 1970

For the Scottish paediatric surgeon, see James Henderson Nicoll. For people with a similar name, see James Nicol (disambiguation).

James Davis Nicoll (born March 18, 1961)[1] is a Canadian freelance game and speculative fiction reviewer, former security guard and role-playing game store owner, and also works as a first reader for the Science Fiction Book Club.[2][3] As a Usenet personality, Nicoll is known for writing a widely quoted epigram on the English language, as well as for his accounts of suffering a high number of accidents, which he has narrated over the years in Usenet groups like rec.arts.sf.written and rec.arts.sf.fandom. He is now a blogger on Dreamwidth and Facebook, and an occasional columnist on Tor.com. In 2014, he started his website, jamesdavisnicoll.com, dedicated to his book reviews of works old and new; and later added Young People Read Old SFF, where his panel of younger readers read pre-1980 science fiction and fantasy, and Nicoll and his collaborators report on the younger readers' reactions.

James Nicoll
Born (1961-03-18) March 18, 1961 (age 63)
NationalityCanadian
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James Nicoll, 2001 photo

Background edit

Nicoll was born March 18, 1961, and grew up in rural Ontario. He wrote on Usenet that "[b]efore it exploded one night, I went to a four grade, two room schoolhouse and we had textbooks from the 1940s." He attended Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School, which he described as "a very rural high school, where 'alternative life style' meant 'Not Old Order Mennonite'".

Influence on SF genre edit

In addition to his influence as a first reader for the Science Fiction Book Club, a book reviewer for Bookspan, Publishers Weekly and Romantic Times, and a juror for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award,[4] Nicoll often offers ideas and concepts to other writers, primarily through the medium of Usenet. After winning the 2006 Locus Award for his novella Missile Gap, Charles Stross thanked him, writing that Nicoll "came up with the original insane setting[5]—then kindly gave me permission to take his idea and run with it."[6]

"The Purity of the English Language" edit

In 1990, in the Usenet group rec.arts.sf-lovers, Nicoll wrote the following epigram on the English language:

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary.[7]

(A followup to the original post acknowledged that the spelling of "riffle" was a common[8] misspelling of "rifle".[9])

The epigram has also been quoted, with proper attribution, in books by professor of rhetoric and communication design Randy Harris.[10] Amateur linguists Jeremy Smith,[11] Richard Lederer,[12] the Chinese newspaper Ming Pao[13] and Anu Garg[14] have also referenced Nicoll's quote.

Professional linguists who have referenced the quotation online include Professor of Linguistics Mark Liberman of the University of Pennsylvania and Language Log;[15] Associate Professor of Linguistics Suzanne Kemmer[16] of Rice University,[17] who also posted her research into the quote at the LINGUIST mailing list;[18] and Second Language Acquisition Ph.D. student Rong Liu.[19][20] There are also amateur philologists who have used the quote, including journalist Suw Charman[21] and journalist Vale White.[22]

"Nicoll events" edit

Nicoll relates a number of life- and/or limb-threatening accidents that have happened to him, which he has told and retold on various science fiction fandom–related newsgroups. Over the years these stories have also been collected into Cally Soukup's List of Nicoll events.[23]

Inspired by Nicoll's collection of accidents, as well as his tendency to take in any stray cat that comes knocking, fantasy author Jo Walton wrote him a poem in 2002.[24]

"Brain eater" edit

A post on soc.history.what-if credits Nicoll with coining the phrase "brain eater"[25] which is supposed to "get" certain writers such as Poul Anderson[26] and James P. Hogan.[27] Nicoll claims the 'brain eater' affected Hogan, because of Hogan's expressions of belief in Immanuel Velikovsky's version of catastrophism,[28] and his advocacy of the hypothesis that AIDS is caused by pharmaceutical use rather than HIV (see AIDS denialism).[29] The term has been adopted by other Usenet posters,[30] [31] [32] as well as elsewhere on the Internet[33][34][35] and use of the term within Usenet has been criticised.[36][37]

Nicoll-Dyson Laser edit

Nicoll proposed the Nicoll-Dyson Laser concept where the satellites of a Dyson swarm act as a phased array laser emitter capable of delivering their energy to a planet-sized target at a range of millions of light years.[38]

E. E. Smith first used the general idea of concentrating the sun's energy in a weapon in the Lensman series when the Galactic Patrol developed the sunbeam (in Second Stage Lensmen); however, his concept did not extend to the details of the Nicoll-Dyson Laser. The 2012 novel The Rapture of the Nerds by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross uses the Nicoll-Dyson Laser concept by name as the means by which the Galactic Federation threatens to destroy the Earth.

Science-fictional Lysenkoism edit

In a discussion on rec.arts.sf.written about why Golden Age science fiction so often uses aliens said to derive from short-lived but well-known stars such as Rigel whose lifespan is probably too brief to ever allow the rise of life due to the long-established mass-luminosity relationship for main-sequence stars, Nicoll identified what he termed the "SFnal Lysenkoist Tendency when actual, tested science contradicts some detail in an SF story, attack the science." He expanded on this idea in an article for online science fiction and fantasy magazine Tor.com.[39]

Awards edit

Nicoll was a finalist for the 2010, 2011, 2019, and 2020 Hugo Awards for Best Fan Writer.[40][41] He served as a judge for the 2012 James Tiptree Jr. Award.[41] In 2021 and 2022, he was nominated for the Aurora Award for Best Fan Writing and Publication, for the series "Young People Read Old SFF" published on his review website.[42][43]

Nicoll has also been a Fan Guest of Honor (GoH) at SF conventions, including ConFusion 2013 in Detroit[44] and Arisia 2014 in Boston.[45] In 2020, he was nominated for the Down Under Fan Fund, to visit science fiction fandom in Australasia as a representative of their North American counterparts.[46]

References edit

  1. ^ Silver, Steven. "SF Birthday Calendar: March". from the original on 2021-06-13. Retrieved 2007-05-15.
  2. ^ Wheeler, Andrew (2006-11-20). . Science Fiction Book Club. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-05-20.
  3. ^ Nicoll, James Davis (2022-01-31). "Five Flawed Books That Are Still Worth Rereading". Tor.com. from the original on 2022-02-01. Retrieved 2022-02-01. Most importantly for me at the time, the paperback fit nicely in my security-guard uniform's inside pocket and helped me stay awake through long night shifts.
  4. ^ "2011 James Tiptree, Jr. Award". from the original on 2016-02-15. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
  5. ^ James Nicoll (2000-12-11). "Life on the Disk". Newsgroup: soc.history.what-if. Usenet: 9136ta$414$1@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca.
  6. ^ Stross, Charles (2007-06-17). "Brief Announcement". from the original on 2007-06-20. Retrieved 2007-06-18.
  7. ^ Nicoll, James (1990-05-15). "The King's English". Newsgroup: rec.arts.sf-lovers. from the original on 2012-11-08. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  8. ^ "Riffle vs rifle – Correct Spelling – Grammarist". 2015-06-08. from the original on 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  9. ^ Nicoll, James (1990-05-20). "The King's English". Newsgroup: rec.arts.sf-lovers. Usenet: 1990May20.184335.4443@watdragon.waterloo.edu. from the original on 2012-11-08. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  10. ^ Harris, Randy (2004). Voice Interaction Design: Crafting the New Conversational Speech Systems. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann. p. 55. ISBN 1-55860-768-4.
  11. ^ Smith, Jeremy (2005). Bum Bags and Fanny Packs: A British-American, American-British Dictionary. New York: Carrol & Graf. p. 164. ISBN 0-7867-1702-5.
  12. ^ Lederer, Richard (2003). A Man of My Words: Reflections on the English Language. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 266. ISBN 0-312-31785-9.
  13. ^ "John Larrysson Column: What Is English?". from the original on 2022-05-16. Retrieved 2020-01-01.
  14. ^ Garg, Anu (2005). Another Word A Day: An All-New Romp through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English. New York: Wiley. p. 111. ISBN 0-471-71845-9.
  15. ^ Liberman, Mark (2005-10-24). "The wordiness of English". Language Log. from the original on 2007-05-03. Retrieved 2007-05-17.; "88 English words from snow". Language Log. 2003-12-07. from the original on 2007-06-25. Retrieved 2007-05-17.
  16. ^ "Suzanne Kemmer: Associate Professor of Linguistics, Rice University". from the original on 2007-04-20. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  17. ^ Kemmer, Suzanne (2001-10-23). . Rice University. Archived from the original on 2005-11-01. . Rice University. 2006-02-28. Archived from the original on 2007-05-12. Retrieved 2007-05-17.
  18. ^ Kemmer, Suzanne (2002-02-20). . LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 2007-04-15. Retrieved 2007-05-17.
  19. ^ . 2006-09-10. Archived from the original on 2006-09-10.
  20. ^ Liu, Mike (2005-10-03). . University of Arizona. Archived from the original (Microsoft PowerPoint) on 2006-09-12. Retrieved 2007-05-17.
  21. ^ Charman, Suw (2005-01-03). . Chocolate and Vodka. Archived from the original on 2005-03-14. Retrieved 2007-05-17.
  22. ^ White, Vale (2004-10-13). . Southern Utah University Journal. Archived from the original on 2007-05-21. Retrieved 2007-05-17.
  23. ^ "Cally Soukup's List of Nicoll Events". dd-b.net. from the original on 2007-01-07. Retrieved 2022-02-01.
  24. ^ . archive.is. 2012-11-30. Archived from the original on 2011-03-26.
  25. ^ Wilson, Gareth (2002-08-14). "Quick thought on the collapse of the Roman Empire". Newsgroup: soc.history.what-if. Usenet: 3D5A21D6.DDC8D0E2@ext.canterbury.ac.nz.
  26. ^ Nicoll, James (1997-09-12). "Fire Upon the Deep and Way Station". Newsgroup: rec.arts.sf.written. Usenet: EGEGux.EK3@novice.uwaterloo.ca. from the original on 2007-11-10. Retrieved 2007-10-26.
  27. ^ Nicoll, James (1999-09-02). "Genetic Engineering?". Newsgroup: rec.arts.sf.written. Usenet: 7qkttc$1fq$1@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca.
  28. ^ Hogan, James P. . Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2006-06-18.
  29. ^ Hogan, James P. . Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-02-01.
  30. ^ McCutchen, Pete (1999-12-10). "Re: A Great New Sci-Fi Novel! (CRIT)". Newsgroup: rec.arts.sf.composition. Usenet: 2me25scohl2fsvso1p3fppejt7vvvdskaf@4ax.com.
  31. ^ Palmer, David M. (2006-01-21). "Orson Scott Card: The brain eater takes another bite--Intelligent Design". Newsgroup: rec.arts.sf.written. Usenet: 210120061300053447%dmpalmer@email.com. from the original on 2012-11-06. Retrieved 2007-10-30.
  32. ^ Bradshaw, Simon (1999-11-14). "NASA and SF". Newsgroup: rec.arts.sf.written. Usenet: memo.19991114183450.61989A@sjbradshaw.compulink.co.uk. from the original on 2012-11-06. Retrieved 2007-10-30.
  33. ^ . Archived from the original on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2007-11-21.
  34. ^ "[Orson Scott Card] Empire - Page 3".
  35. ^ . sadlyno.com. Archived from the original on 2007-11-09.
  36. ^ M., Omega (2007-06-05). ""Brain eater": A phrase I hate". Hatrack River Forum. from the original on 2007-06-13. Retrieved 2007-10-30.
  37. ^ Wright, David. "For Us, The Living". www.heinleinsociety.org. from the original on 2008-05-01. Retrieved 2007-11-21.
  38. ^ Nicoll, James (2005-03-20). "Re: A Moon base is too far; an asteroid ship better alternative:)". Newsgroup: sci.space.tech. Usenet: d1kl0p$c9q$1@reader1.panix.com.
  39. ^ "Doing the Math: Aliens and Advanced Technology in Science Fiction". from the original on 2019-12-06. Retrieved 2019-11-29.
  40. ^ "2010 Hugo Award Nominees – Details". The Hugo Awards. World Science Fiction Society. 2010-04-04. from the original on 2010-04-07. Retrieved 2010-04-04.
  41. ^ a b "James Nicoll Awards". Science Fiction Awards Database. Locus Science Fiction Foundation. from the original on 2021-09-21. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
  42. ^ "2021 Aurora Award Ballot". Locus Magazine. 2021-05-10. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
  43. ^ "2022 Aurora Award Ballot". Aurora Award. 2022-04-09. from the original on 2022-04-12. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
  44. ^ "Fan GoH: James Davis Nicoll Immortal ConFusion". ConFusion. Ann Arbor Science Fiction Association. 2014-01-21. from the original on 2014-02-03. Retrieved 2014-01-21.
  45. ^ "Welcome Arisia 2014". Arisia. 2014-01-21. from the original on 2014-02-01. Retrieved 2014-01-21.
  46. ^ "The 2020 DUFF Race Candidates are announced". Down Under Fan Fund. 2020-01-18. from the original on 2020-04-05. Retrieved 2020-01-18.

External links edit

 
Wikiquote has quotations related to James Nicoll.
  • James Nicoll on Facebook
  • More Words, Deeper Hole, James Nicoll's DreamWidth weblog
  • James Davis Nicoll, James Nicoll's public review site
  • Nicoll's columns for Tor.com
  • Nicoll's Usenet posts in Google Groups: since 2000, 2000–1, 1996–9, 1990–2
  • Millennial Reviews: A series of reviews by James Nicoll of science fiction books set in the year 2000.

January 01, 1970
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For the Scottish paediatric surgeon see James Henderson Nicoll For people with a similar name see James Nicol disambiguation James Davis Nicoll born March 18 1961 1 is a Canadian freelance game and speculative fiction reviewer former security guard and role playing game store owner and also works as a first reader for the Science Fiction Book Club 2 3 As a Usenet personality Nicoll is known for writing a widely quoted epigram on the English language as well as for his accounts of suffering a high number of accidents which he has narrated over the years in Usenet groups like rec arts sf written and rec arts sf fandom He is now a blogger on Dreamwidth and Facebook and an occasional columnist on Tor com In 2014 he started his website jamesdavisnicoll com dedicated to his book reviews of works old and new and later added Young People Read Old SFF where his panel of younger readers read pre 1980 science fiction and fantasy and Nicoll and his collaborators report on the younger readers reactions James NicollBorn 1961 03 18 March 18 1961 age 63 NationalityCanadian External imageJames Nicoll 2001 photo Contents 1 Background 2 Influence on SF genre 3 The Purity of the English Language 4 Nicoll events 5 Brain eater 6 Nicoll Dyson Laser 7 Science fictional Lysenkoism 8 Awards 9 References 10 External linksBackground editNicoll was born March 18 1961 and grew up in rural Ontario He wrote on Usenet that b efore it exploded one night I went to a four grade two room schoolhouse and we had textbooks from the 1940s He attended Waterloo Oxford District Secondary School which he described as a very rural high school where alternative life style meant Not Old Order Mennonite Influence on SF genre editIn addition to his influence as a first reader for the Science Fiction Book Club a book reviewer for Bookspan Publishers Weekly and Romantic Times and a juror for the James Tiptree Jr Award 4 Nicoll often offers ideas and concepts to other writers primarily through the medium of Usenet After winning the 2006 Locus Award for his novella Missile Gap Charles Stross thanked him writing that Nicoll came up with the original insane setting 5 then kindly gave me permission to take his idea and run with it 6 The Purity of the English Language editIn 1990 in the Usenet group rec arts sf lovers Nicoll wrote the following epigram on the English language The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore We don t just borrow words on occasion English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary 7 A followup to the original post acknowledged that the spelling of riffle was a common 8 misspelling of rifle 9 The epigram has also been quoted with proper attribution in books by professor of rhetoric and communication design Randy Harris 10 Amateur linguists Jeremy Smith 11 Richard Lederer 12 the Chinese newspaper Ming Pao 13 and Anu Garg 14 have also referenced Nicoll s quote Professional linguists who have referenced the quotation online include Professor of Linguistics Mark Liberman of the University of Pennsylvania and Language Log 15 Associate Professor of Linguistics Suzanne Kemmer 16 of Rice University 17 who also posted her research into the quote at the LINGUIST mailing list 18 and Second Language Acquisition Ph D student Rong Liu 19 20 There are also amateur philologists who have used the quote including journalist Suw Charman 21 and journalist Vale White 22 Nicoll events editNicoll relates a number of life and or limb threatening accidents that have happened to him which he has told and retold on various science fiction fandom related newsgroups Over the years these stories have also been collected into Cally Soukup s List of Nicoll events 23 Inspired by Nicoll s collection of accidents as well as his tendency to take in any stray cat that comes knocking fantasy author Jo Walton wrote him a poem in 2002 24 Brain eater editA post on soc history what if credits Nicoll with coining the phrase brain eater 25 which is supposed to get certain writers such as Poul Anderson 26 and James P Hogan 27 Nicoll claims the brain eater affected Hogan because of Hogan s expressions of belief in Immanuel Velikovsky s version of catastrophism 28 and his advocacy of the hypothesis that AIDS is caused by pharmaceutical use rather than HIV see AIDS denialism 29 The term has been adopted by other Usenet posters 30 31 32 as well as elsewhere on the Internet 33 34 35 and use of the term within Usenet has been criticised 36 37 Nicoll Dyson Laser editNicoll proposed the Nicoll Dyson Laser concept where the satellites of a Dyson swarm act as a phased array laser emitter capable of delivering their energy to a planet sized target at a range of millions of light years 38 E E Smith first used the general idea of concentrating the sun s energy in a weapon in the Lensman series when the Galactic Patrol developed the sunbeam in Second Stage Lensmen however his concept did not extend to the details of the Nicoll Dyson Laser The 2012 novel The Rapture of the Nerds by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross uses the Nicoll Dyson Laser concept by name as the means by which the Galactic Federation threatens to destroy the Earth Science fictional Lysenkoism editIn a discussion on rec arts sf written about why Golden Age science fiction so often uses aliens said to derive from short lived but well known stars such as Rigel whose lifespan is probably too brief to ever allow the rise of life due to the long established mass luminosity relationship for main sequence stars Nicoll identified what he termed the SFnal Lysenkoist Tendency when actual tested science contradicts some detail in an SF story attack the science He expanded on this idea in an article for online science fiction and fantasy magazine Tor com 39 Awards editNicoll was a finalist for the 2010 2011 2019 and 2020 Hugo Awards for Best Fan Writer 40 41 He served as a judge for the 2012 James Tiptree Jr Award 41 In 2021 and 2022 he was nominated for the Aurora Award for Best Fan Writing and Publication for the series Young People Read Old SFF published on his review website 42 43 Nicoll has also been a Fan Guest of Honor GoH at SF conventions including ConFusion 2013 in Detroit 44 and Arisia 2014 in Boston 45 In 2020 he was nominated for the Down Under Fan Fund to visit science fiction fandom in Australasia as a representative of their North American counterparts 46 References edit Silver Steven SF Birthday Calendar March Archived from the original on 2021 06 13 Retrieved 2007 05 15 Wheeler Andrew 2006 11 20 SFBC s Top 50 Books List Goes Walkabout Science Fiction Book Club Archived from the original on 2007 09 28 Retrieved 2007 05 20 Nicoll James Davis 2022 01 31 Five Flawed Books That Are Still Worth Rereading Tor com Archived from the original on 2022 02 01 Retrieved 2022 02 01 Most importantly for me at the time the paperback fit nicely in my security guard uniform s inside pocket and helped me stay awake through long night shifts 2011 James Tiptree Jr Award Archived from the original on 2016 02 15 Retrieved 2016 01 26 James Nicoll 2000 12 11 Life on the Disk Newsgroup soc history what if Usenet 9136ta 414 1 watserv3 uwaterloo ca Stross Charles 2007 06 17 Brief Announcement Archived from the original on 2007 06 20 Retrieved 2007 06 18 Nicoll James 1990 05 15 The King s English Newsgroup rec arts sf lovers Archived from the original on 2012 11 08 Retrieved 2013 10 03 Riffle vs rifle Correct Spelling Grammarist 2015 06 08 Archived from the original on 2020 09 26 Retrieved 2020 09 16 Nicoll James 1990 05 20 The King s English Newsgroup rec arts sf lovers Usenet 1990May20 184335 4443 watdragon waterloo edu Archived from the original on 2012 11 08 Retrieved 2013 10 03 Harris Randy 2004 Voice Interaction Design Crafting the New Conversational Speech Systems San Francisco Morgan Kaufmann p 55 ISBN 1 55860 768 4 Smith Jeremy 2005 Bum Bags and Fanny Packs A British American American British Dictionary New York Carrol amp Graf p 164 ISBN 0 7867 1702 5 Lederer Richard 2003 A Man of My Words Reflections on the English Language New York St Martin s Press p 266 ISBN 0 312 31785 9 John Larrysson Column What Is English Archived from the original on 2022 05 16 Retrieved 2020 01 01 Garg Anu 2005 Another Word A Day An All New Romp through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English New York Wiley p 111 ISBN 0 471 71845 9 Liberman Mark 2005 10 24 The wordiness of English Language Log Archived from the original on 2007 05 03 Retrieved 2007 05 17 88 English words from snow Language Log 2003 12 07 Archived from the original on 2007 06 25 Retrieved 2007 05 17 Suzanne Kemmer Associate Professor of Linguistics Rice University Archived from the original on 2007 04 20 Retrieved 2019 01 30 Kemmer Suzanne 2001 10 23 The English Language Past and Present Rice University Archived from the original on 2005 11 01 Words in English Structure History Use course Web site for Linguistics English 215 Rice University 2006 02 28 Archived from the original on 2007 05 12 Retrieved 2007 05 17 Kemmer Suzanne 2002 02 20 James D Nicoll quote mystery solved LINGUIST List Archived from the original on 2007 04 15 Retrieved 2007 05 17 Welcome to Rong s site vitae 2006 09 10 Archived from the original on 2006 09 10 Liu Mike 2005 10 03 Presentation on Morphology for the course INDV 101 Language University of Arizona Archived from the original Microsoft PowerPoint on 2006 09 12 Retrieved 2007 05 17 Charman Suw 2005 01 03 Re The purity of the English language Chocolate and Vodka Archived from the original on 2005 03 14 Retrieved 2007 05 17 White Vale 2004 10 13 Words words words depurify Southern Utah University Journal Archived from the original on 2007 05 21 Retrieved 2007 05 17 Cally Soukup s List of Nicoll Events dd b net Archived from the original on 2007 01 07 Retrieved 2022 02 01 papersky James Nicoll Poem archive is 2012 11 30 Archived from the original on 2011 03 26 Wilson Gareth 2002 08 14 Quick thought on the collapse of the Roman Empire Newsgroup soc history what if Usenet 3D5A21D6 DDC8D0E2 ext canterbury ac nz Nicoll James 1997 09 12 Fire Upon the Deep and Way Station Newsgroup rec arts sf written Usenet EGEGux EK3 novice uwaterloo ca Archived from the original on 2007 11 10 Retrieved 2007 10 26 Nicoll James 1999 09 02 Genetic Engineering Newsgroup rec arts sf written Usenet 7qkttc 1fq 1 watserv3 uwaterloo ca Hogan James P The Case for Taking Velikovsky Seriously Archived from the original on 2007 09 28 Retrieved 2006 06 18 Hogan James P Bulletin Board AIDS Skepticism Archived from the original on 2007 09 28 Retrieved 2007 02 01 McCutchen Pete 1999 12 10 Re A Great New Sci Fi Novel CRIT Newsgroup rec arts sf composition Usenet 2me25scohl2fsvso1p3fppejt7vvvdskaf 4ax com Palmer David M 2006 01 21 Orson Scott Card The brain eater takes another bite Intelligent Design Newsgroup rec arts sf written Usenet 210120061300053447 dmpalmer email com Archived from the original on 2012 11 06 Retrieved 2007 10 30 Bradshaw Simon 1999 11 14 NASA and SF Newsgroup rec arts sf written Usenet memo 19991114183450 61989A sjbradshaw compulink co uk Archived from the original on 2012 11 06 Retrieved 2007 10 30 James nicoll Uncle Orson explains how freedom of religion is supposed to work Archived from the original on 2011 07 21 Retrieved 2007 11 21 Orson Scott Card Empire Page 3 Sadly No Raise a Glass for the Ole Perfesser sadlyno com Archived from the original on 2007 11 09 M Omega 2007 06 05 Brain eater A phrase I hate Hatrack River Forum Archived from the original on 2007 06 13 Retrieved 2007 10 30 Wright David For Us The Living www heinleinsociety org Archived from the original on 2008 05 01 Retrieved 2007 11 21 Nicoll James 2005 03 20 Re A Moon base is too far an asteroid ship better alternative Newsgroup sci space tech Usenet d1kl0p c9q 1 reader1 panix com Doing the Math Aliens and Advanced Technology in Science Fiction Archived from the original on 2019 12 06 Retrieved 2019 11 29 2010 Hugo Award Nominees Details The Hugo Awards World Science Fiction Society 2010 04 04 Archived from the original on 2010 04 07 Retrieved 2010 04 04 a b James Nicoll Awards Science Fiction Awards Database Locus Science Fiction Foundation Archived from the original on 2021 09 21 Retrieved 2021 09 21 2021 Aurora Award Ballot Locus Magazine 2021 05 10 Retrieved 2021 09 21 2022 Aurora Award Ballot Aurora Award 2022 04 09 Archived from the original on 2022 04 12 Retrieved 2022 04 15 Fan GoH James Davis Nicoll Immortal ConFusion ConFusion Ann Arbor Science Fiction Association 2014 01 21 Archived from the original on 2014 02 03 Retrieved 2014 01 21 Welcome Arisia 2014 Arisia 2014 01 21 Archived from the original on 2014 02 01 Retrieved 2014 01 21 The 2020 DUFF Race Candidates are announced Down Under Fan Fund 2020 01 18 Archived from the original on 2020 04 05 Retrieved 2020 01 18 External 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