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"Chris Gavaler and Dan Johnson set out to measure how identifying a text as science fiction makes readers automatically assume it is less worthwhile, in a literary sense, and thus devote less effort to reading it": https://goo.gl/t52N9X ... Related posts by Gavaler include the texts used in the study: https://goo.gl/xaZRsd ... https://goo.gl/8eQwxp ... https://goo.gl/cNzvH4 ... and in 2014 he wrote about SF, literary fiction, slipstream, and other labels: https://goo.gl/7zR1Pd

@WT_Dore /nod basically chapter II.8. of Marxism & Literature: https://mykelandrada.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/raymond-williams-marxism-and-literature.pdf

@TotallyArbitrary My favorite playlist for this is all really basic, melodic piano: Evgeny Grinko, Michael Nyman, Max Richter, Dustin O'Halloran, Yann Tiersen, Carly Commando, pop song covers, waltzes by Debussy, Schubert, and Mike Strickland. Nothing too slow, dramatic, or complicated

Two more for my re-read list--very much enjoyed these stories by Morris Tanafon: "The Last Spell of the Raven" (Glittership, 10/2017; #fantasy; recommended on Charles Payseur's blog) and "Interred with Their Bones" (Mythic Delirium, 1/2017; #horror; cw: eating disorders/suicide) ... http://www.glittership.com/2017/10/05/episode-47-the-last-spell-of-the-raven-by-morris-tanafon/ ... https://mythicdelirium.com/featured-story-%E2%80%A2-january-2017

#Metafilter 's The Little Professor has posted her annual list of public domain horror stories--a "desert island" edition that looks great: http://littleprofessor.typepad.com/the_little_professor/2017/10/howl-the-annual-horde-of-halloween-horrors-desert-island-edition.html

Aw, Julian May--I loved the Pliocene Exile series in high school: http://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2017/10/rip-julian-may.html ... http://file770.com/?p=25509 ... Her first SF sale from 1951 is online at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/Astounding_v48n04_1951-12_Gorgon776#page/n7/mode/2up

Innocent Chizaram Ilo's "River Boy" has interesting imagery--another I'll re-read at some point this year: https://firesidefiction.com/river-boy

I liked 3/5 of the stories in Bracken Magazine IV--bookmarked for re-reading: http://www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-iv/

@eyebrows Currently watching Deutschland 83-- low key but engaging: https://www.hulu.com/watch/884950 ... https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/jan/03/channel-4-cold-war-drama-deutschland-83

Multiple reading lists at Goodreads make me hope for time to binge-read horror novels by Christmas: https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/1066-horror-week

The latest from Mallory Ortberg at Shondaland: http://www.shondaland.com/live/a12790496/emails-i-have-never-received-mallory-ortberg/ ... Reminds me of "We Who Are Your Closest Friends" a little too much to feel its full potential, but I liked it

@sonicbooming @selfnoise Seemed fine to me and possibly helpful for cultural literacy. I didn't hear about this elsewhere (I'm very unplugged from sports news), yet it seems notable enough to stick around as a shared reference.

@dearbhla @scottschuman @jjray I really appreciated the Fanfare comments on BR2049 by codacorolla and Calzephyr. And my feeling is most Leto scenes were superfluous build-up for that *big spoiler to describe* scene

@sonicbooming Hey! Thanks for the greeting--delighted to see so much activity here

Just another #mefite checking in