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"Glenn Stout's biography of Gertrude (Trudy) Ederle is much more than just a story about the first woman to swim the English Channel in 1926. Stout delves deep into the history of competitive swimming, the origins of the American Crawl as a swimmin..." Permalink

"I found Chiang's book of stories intriguing, but not entirely engrossing. Chiang possesses impressive abilities with written language, especially the language of science and technology. Each story describes humans in situations that are familiar, ..." Permalink

"These stories are speculative fiction, not science fiction. Ted Chiang is a graduate of Clarion. He writes for a post modernist audience. His writing is masterful in technique but devoid of passion for right and wrong. "Tower of Babylon" is "Jack ..." Permalink