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Suhail Rafidi

@shelldive

Novelist & Pen for Hire. Favored genre: science fiction. Also: stories, speeches, bios, blogs, research articles, and SEO content. Keep the fingers tap-dancing!

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San Francisco Writer’s Conference 2023 suhailrafidi.wordpress.com/2…

San Francisco Writer’s Conference 2023

The glass elevator lofts me above the cavernous Atrium to the top floor. The giant fountain dominating the lobby shrinks into knick-knack proportions beneath my flight. The elevator dings and annou…

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I read Stealing Worlds by Karl Schroeder goodreads.com/review/show/35…
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Uncanny Valley Digest: Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler suhailrafidi.wordpress.com/2…

Uncanny Valley Digest: Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler

Our Octavia Butler discussion gleamed like a beetle’s carapace! Potent imagery and penetrating themes abound in this thought-provoking, and creepy, short story. A human child living in a huma…

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Uncanny Valley Digest: All Systems Red by Martha Wells suhailrafidi.wordpress.com/2…

Uncanny Valley Digest: All Systems Red by Martha Wells

Our All Systems Red discussion was an after dinner mint! Martha Wells kicked off her Murderbot Diaries with this well received adventure novella. Weighing in at just under 100 pages, it is reputed …

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Uncanny Valley Digest: PKD’s We Can Build You suhailrafidi.wordpress.com/2…

Uncanny Valley Digest: PKD’s We Can Build You

Our We Can Build You discussion took on a life of it’s own, and yielded a variety of opinions. A mood organ salesman gets the bright idea to take Civil War re-enactment simulacra to market. I…

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Uncanny Valley Digest: We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin suhailrafidi.wordpress.com/2…

Uncanny Valley Digest: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Our Wednesday night Zamyatin discussion was the hammer and tongs! Like many thought-provoking Russian novels of its time, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s 1924 authoritarian dystopia, We, was first published in …

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Uncanny Valley Digest: Stanisław Lem’s “Let Us Save The Universe” shelldive.wordpress.com/2020…

Uncanny Valley Digest: Stanisław Lem’s “Let Us Save The Universe”

Last night’s Stanisław Lem discussion was a joyride in a cosmic salvage craft! (In Polish, the “ł” is pronounced as a soft “wa,” between “L” and “W&#…

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Uncanny Valley Digest: Stealing Worlds, by Karl Schroeder shelldive.wordpress.com/2020…

Uncanny Valley Digest: Stealing Worlds, by Karl Schroeder

A spunky burglar is on the run for her life after helping her now-murdered father rob a corrupt ecological securities firm. Schroeder’s virtual worlds detective caper, set in the near future,…

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Uncanny Valley: Science Fiction Summer Reading Group shelldive.wordpress.com/2020…
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Uncanny Valley Digest: Stanislaw Lem’s “Let Us Save The Universe” suhailrafidi.wordpress.com/2…

Uncanny Valley Digest: Stanisław Lem’s “Let Us Save The Universe”

Last night’s Stanisław Lem discussion was a joyride in a cosmic salvage craft! (In Polish, the “ł” is pronounced as a soft “wa,” between “L” and “W&#…

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Uncanny Valley Digest: Karl Schroeder’s Stealing Worlds suhailrafidi.wordpress.com/2…

Uncanny Valley Digest: Karl Schroeder’s Stealing Worlds

A spunky burglar is on the run for her life after helping her now-murdered father rob a corrupt ecological securities firm. Schroeder’s virtual worlds detective caper, set in the near future,…

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Uncanny Valley: Science Fiction Summer Reading Group suhailrafidi.wordpress.com/2…

Uncanny Valley: Science Fiction Summer Reading Group

Grab your gear, reader, summer’s on! Join us for another sunbaked expedition into the Uncanny Valley, with your intrepid hosts, David Gill and Suhail Rafidi.

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Uncanny Valley Digest: Cordwainer Smith Redux suhailrafidi.wordpress.com/2…
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Uncanny Valley Digest: PKD’s Man In The High Castle suhailrafidi.wordpress.com/2…
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Uncanny Valley: Science Fiction Summer Reading Group suhailrafidi.wordpress.com/2…
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Film: Ralph Bakshi’s American Pop suhailrafidi.wordpress.com/2…
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Beowulf and the Fate of Music suhailrafidi.wordpress.com/2…
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Let’s Go Fly A Kite suhailrafidi.wordpress.com/2…
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