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Oyvind Thorsby's webcomics are pretty awesome. The art is bad, but the concepts are very interesting. They focus largely on weird evolutionary paths and social misunderstandings. I really like "Hitmen for Destiny" and "The Accidental Space Spy"; he's recently started a new comic called ...

You know what I always say-- if you aren't embarrassed by anything you wrote years ago, you aren't improving fast enough.

This is a thread for directing your fellows to cool things that might otherwise go unnoticed. I will start with a link to The Man Who Hates Fun , which is probably my favorite webcomic. It starts off not particularly well-drawn, but the jokes are worth staying for. Like many of my favorite things ...

This poem really calls my attention to the world's relative lack of stories about people leading pleasant, psychologically healthy lives and soberly observing interesting events.

I get a "Forbidden" result at that link.

IIRC in the Ender's Game novel (or perhaps one of its sequels), Col. Graff does in fact get sent to a court-martial but is acquitted because his actions were necessary. This element, like most questionable things about the Ender's Game novel, was not found in the IMO vastly superior original short ...

All Culture novels by Iain M. Banks-- but especially "Surface Detail".

I like short stories, but haven't found a good online source for them. Any recommendations?