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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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Thank you for the contact in class, @shiyurachel ! Until next time!
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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The outside underside is the keel or hull, so you could get away with merely bottom, I suppose.
Word. Didn't know it needed to be alluring. Maybe the belly of the canoe?
bilge?
Replying to @amanda_hocking
"Am I wrong?" Another great 90s song.
Replying to @Jamie_S_Dent
Word up!
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Replying to @daisy
HA! I applied to my waistline!
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Maybe the teacher didn't carry it. Needs lots of scaffolding at that age.
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Or maybe I just was being a snot because it made me feel smart.
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I felt like young readings of the classics acclimated me to reading dense texts, made it easier to read them later in life. Decoding that stuff was a task in itself. I never remembered what I read back then, but re-reading years later it sank in, and I enjoyed the poetry.
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If only we'd "applied ourselves." :/
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Odyssey, 8th grade. Bible, thankfully, not until a religion class in college. Why was the Odyssey so maddening?
Replying to @realDonaldTrump
@realDonaldTrump - You're Fired.
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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