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Locus 2003 Recommended Reading List

Posted by timothy on from the what-else-is-out-there dept.

Embedded Geek writes "Locus magazine has published its 2003 Recommended Reading List of science fiction, fantasy, and related titles. With nearly 300 entries, it's a safe bet that even the most voracious reader will find something new. Personally, I was delighted to see Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams under non-fiction and the great listing of short fiction (so I can mine my old magazines for the gems). If you're more of a completist, check out Locus'es exhaustive listings (continued here and here). Definitely worth downloading to your PDA for your next trip to the bookstore."

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  1. Re:Small Tribute to DNA by Acidic_Diarrhea · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    " One thing I'll pass along, and pardon me for not wording it exactly as he had: WWW has to be the longest to pronounce, as an acronym of what it stands for. Double-U-Double-U-Double-U, that's 9 syllables, while World Wide Web has only 3. Why don't they call it something shorter, like Triple-U?"
    How insightful! We should just use World Wide Web and forget this www nonsense, right? Hey, check out this website: http://worldwideweb.slashdot.org

    And you're saying Douglas Adams couldn't understand the reason the www abbreviation exists? What a slap in the face if it is not true.

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  2. Re:Sucession by CAIMLAS · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You might be well read in science fiction, but you're certainly not well read in general.

    Themes such as lazyness leading to morality (and vice versa) is a theme that's quite old and is common in many religious texts.

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  3. Re:Small Tribute to DNA by Acidic_Diarrhea · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Yeah, you missed my fucking point because you're obviously retarded.

    The post to which I was replying was bringing up the point that WWW has more syllables. I was making the point that an abbreviation for world wide web was made not because it abbreviates the spoken word but rather because it abbreviates what one has to type. Yes, web is an abbreviation that would be 3-letters. So what? That has nothing to do with what I was talking about.

    You're a fucking moron.

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  4. Re:Let me be the first to say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    fuck u!