Irony is dead. Robert Silverberg has murdered irony.

“The early Truesdale draft is not what is being circulated now. Many veteran members of SFWA objected to the early text and have worked it over to keep it to the point that pre-censorship of published material is an Orwellian injury to free speech, period.”

Pinging james_nicoll, who may have missed that PARTICULAR gem of doublethink in the comments of Natalie Luhrs' post.

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For the Pony fans, and the Minecraft fans.

Minecraft Is Magic

Nerdy, cute, very well animated, and doesn't require that you know anything about My Little Pony (other than that it exists) or Katy Perry (apparently it's a parody of one of her songs?). Requires very minimal knowledge of minecraft, to wit "at night the monsters come, and some of them explode." There, now you know everything you need.

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