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Urgh

I want this new apartment for February.

Okay, it's still with my current landlords, who aren't fabulous, but the townhome keeps us in this neighbourhood, and it'll give us the space we desperately need. Not to mention it's the end unit on a string of 25 units, and at the end of a cul-de-sac... and right across the road from the Dairy Queen and Fabricland.

I hope they call me back today, because I'd be willing to sign by the weekend if the interior doesn't suck.

Science Fiction

I was going through a list of the top 100 science fiction books of the 20th Century, and realized that I've read many of them, or other works by the authors on the list and I started to wonder.

What is it about Science Fiction that makes it so stigmatized?

All of the books on that list are thought-provoking. Many are written with a finesse that is completely lost on the contemporary serial novelist. Is there a ton of science fiction out there that I haven't read that is abyssmally bad? Is the average reader incapable of fathoming the concepts that are presented? What is it that makes sci-fi so inaccessible?