Regidar recently posted a request for links to experimental fics. I decided to just add a bookshelf, Experimental, and list my favorite and my own experimental stories there. (My stories will probably appear first, because I added them last.

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That most-peculiar book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, describes in Fit the Fourth how representatives of the Amalgamated Union of Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries, and other professional thinking persons confronted Deep Thought, the second greatest computer in the universe, when it threatened to find the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

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I just visited Eliezer Yudkowsky's tumblr, and on Jan 12 he posted this:

12TH JAN 2024 | 38 NOTES

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From the author's preface to part 1 (the only part of 3 parts that was ever published) of Dead Souls (English translation by C. J. Hogarth):

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Lots of cons have panels where people read bad fan-fiction for laughs. But they never have panels where people read good fan-fiction. So I'm going to propose one, at every con I go to.

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I booked a room for Trotcon at the Marriott at the University of Dayton.

TrotCon, July 12-14, 2024, Dayton, OH
Con: Dayton Convention Center
Official hotel: Marriott at the University of Dayton
1414 South Patterson Boulevard Dayton, Ohio 45409
Book your Room - $168 a night plus Tax

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Probably you already know this, because I'm slow, but Skeeter needs help.

Ice Star began a GoFundMe to raise money for his boyfriend's family to buy a used car, because they live in the boonies and are disabled. His post on this is here; the gofundme is here. I don't know anything more than

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Someone wrote, "Fiction teaches us that other people are real."

Earlier this year, I was visiting my mother, and while we were sitting and talking, I apologized for being late, and she said, "Oh, that's no trouble."

But I was looking her in the eyes when I said it, and her eyes said that it was, in fact, trouble.  I know my mother well enough that I can read a lot in her eyes.  What I can't read, I can mostly fill in from the context; I know what matters to her and how she thinks.

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