bs2Jan 7, 2025

> I think that sf ignored trade unions because it was written by and for engineers at a time when their skills were in high demand. Those kinds of workers can get a good deal without unions — for a while.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/10/the-proletarianization-of-tech-workers/

#EricFlint #SFTradeUnions #SFLabor #CoreYDoctorowOnTradeUnions #CoreyDoctoroWithLabor

The proletarianization of tech workers – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Arcadiagt5Nov 5, 2024
I'll watch episode 8, which is fun enough even if I can understand why it made @DakkiReads nope right out of #GATE. To put it one way, there's elements of politics in #GATE, particularly in this episode, that make #DavidWeber look subtle (and, yes, I'm referring to David Weber prior to the influence of the late #EricFlint)
Evelyn C. LeeperJan 19, 2024
MT VOID #2311: Film reviews of #LeaveTheWorldBehind #ItLivesInside #TheLastVoyageOfTheDemeter #Dracula #BramStoker; book review of #ABitOfLuckAlternateHistoriesInHonorOfEricFlint #EricFlint #Lisa Mangum; book comments on #TheOtherBennetSister #JaniceHadlow #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice on http://leepers.us/mtvoid/VOID0119.htm from @eleeper and #MarkRLeeper
MT VOID 01/19/24 -- Vol. 42, No. 29, Whole Number 2311

Show threadCory DoctorowSep 10, 2023

Why #labor #unions are so rare in #sciencefiction

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-proletarianization-of-tech-workers-ad0a6b09f7e6?sk=6dc50e8e1afc9bbd523a2fee4959e5c0

#EricFlint #Labor #WorldCon #FalseConsciousness

Dr Craig BuchananNov 20, 2022

Pt 2 of my #reading #books list, focused on #fantasy and #scifi authors I enjoy:

#tolkien #BenAaronovitch #GuyAdams #JodiTaylor #PatriciaMorrison #JohnBirmingham #JohnRingo #EricFlint #DavidWeber #DavidDrake #LarryCorreia #LEModesitt #TaylorAnderson #TravisTaylor #KatharineKerr #RaymondFeist #TomKratman #DavidGemmell #Dragonlance #StephenDonaldson #NaomiNovik #RMMeluch #DavidEddings #KevinHearne #TerryBrooks #KatherineKurtz #RobertJordan #StephenLawhead #TadWilliams #JackCampell #SMStirling

quoteallthethings #Yang2020 🐉Jul 24, 2019
My first published novel was 'Mother of Demons,' which is simply 'The High Crusade' standing on its head. Poul Anderson placed his medieval human heroes in a futuristic alien setting; I placed my futuristic human heroes in a bronze age alien settin... #EricFlint #quotations https://openquotes.github.io/authors/eric-flint-quotes/#c5aa602b
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quoteallthethings #Yang2020 🐉Apr 4, 2019
By the time I was twenty-three, I'd given up any thought of becoming a fiction writer, and I didn't return to the craft for over two decades. But, at the age of forty-five, return I did.... #EricFlint #quotation https://openquotes.github.io/authors/eric-flint-quotes/#404a8047
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quoteallthethings #Yang2020 🐉Mar 29, 2019
Poul Anderson's 'The High Crusade' may have had a greater impact on my development as a writer than any other book I ever read.... #EricFlint #citation https://openquotes.github.io/authors/eric-flint-quotes/#be4fc853
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