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Title: Samuel R Delany - Ballad of Beta-2, The - 7
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Started 3 months ago (2008-09-02 04:46:00)  by clong
Ballad of Beta-2, The This is a short novel featuring a couple of powerful ideas and some effective imagery, but not much in terms of characterization or story. A bored young graduate student is sent to investigate the scene of a curiously neglected space disaster, and finds out quite a bit more than he expected. Not one of Delany's best, but it does feature one of the author's ...
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Started 3 months ago (2008-09-02 11:34:00)  by mccormack44
I used to lend out a copy of "The Ballad of Beta-2" to academic friends who kept wondering about what SF was about. This is "science" in that the graduate student is using good research skills, but it is accessible to folks who believe that they can't read SF because of the subject matter. Some of the people who read this did go on to explore the more typical entries in this genre, after reading ...
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Ballad of Beta-2, The This is a short novel featuring a couple of powerful ideas and some effective imagery, but not much in terms of characterization or story. A bored young graduate student is sent to investigate the scene of a curiously neglected space disaster, and finds out quite a bit more than he expected. Not one of Delany's best, but it does feature one of the author's typical &quot;out there&quot; characters, and...
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I used to lend out a copy of &quot;The Ballad of Beta-2&quot; to academic friends who kept wondering about what SF was about. This is &quot;science&quot; in that the graduate student is using good research skills, but it is accessible to folks who believe that they can't read SF because of the subject matter. Some of the people who read this did go on to explore the more typical entries in this genre, after reading this. Sue

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