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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jun 2018

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Bitter Script Reader

      1/ This is an interesting idea (h/t @hradzka ). Maybe I'll take a stab at it: what novels (science fiction and otherwise) made me think "yes, this is how novels should work"https://twitter.com/BittrScrptReadr/status/1002394539720470528 …

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      Last year after @johngary told me I needed to write a teen drama pilot I did something else that really helped me zero in on the kind of writer I was - I made a list of all the shows that impacted me and how. #16GreatTVShows https://thebitterscriptreader.blogspot.com/2017/06/16-great-tv-shows-part-1-wonder-years.html …
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jun 2018

      2/ To some degree, this is going to overlap with politics. That's not my goal, but it's kind of inevitable.

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jun 2018

      3/ * Starship Troopers - made me realize that a novel could serve the role of an uncle or a scoutmaster: instructing the reader on how the universe works, and how life works

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jun 2018

      4/ * Lucifer's Hammer - made me realize that a novel can be gripping, and have huge stakes (and in a realistic way, not in a campy "Superman must save the WHOLE WORLD!!!" way). Also made me appreciate vast, sprawling, parallel narratives, AND "procedurals".

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jun 2018

      5/ * Hunt for Red October - cemented my appreciation for parallel threads which provide different angles onto the huge ball of events.

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jun 2018

      6/ * Alaska, by James Michener - again tickled my "this story is so vast, it has to be told from different points of view", and ALSO made me fall in love with a camera just watching the landscape develop. I stole Michener's geologic scene for my 2nd novel.

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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jun 2018

      7/ * Exodus, by Leon Uris. Again, the multi-threaded approach...but also the sense of historic importance, and the fact that things that look inevitable in retrospect can be hugely contingent if viewed from the ground at the time.

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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jun 2018

      8/ * Lord of the Rings. Showing that huge events often pivot on the decisions of "the little people". Kings and philosophers are all well and good, but what one man does in the moment when no one is looking - that matters hugely. I love novels that show this.

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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jun 2018

      9/ * Cryptonomicon, Anathem, and several others by Neal Stephenson. I loved that N.S. did huge amounts of research, dumped huge amounts of info in his books, but never had the 1950s movie "as you know, Bob, the transmogrifying ray works on the principle of..."

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jun 2018

      10/ Heinlein, as much as I love him, DID do the "as you know, Bob" thing...ALL THE TIME. He did it for a valid reason: he was trying to inspire kids to be rationalist engineer types and wanted to educate them. (I think Farmer in the Sky was serialized in the Scout magazine)

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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jun 2018

          11/ * various novels by Ayn Rand...in the negative. I found her over-the-top heroes and over-the-top villains laughable, and her speeches ridiculous and the antithesis of entertainment. People are complex. No villain THINKS they're evil. No hero is without some sin.

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jun 2018

          12/ * Dune - because it needed to exist. It was after reading Dune that I first codified my thoughts about the two categories of books. No, not good (10%) and bad (90%), but rather: needing to exist (0.01%) and not needing to exist (all the rest)

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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jun 2018

          13/ If Dune did not exist, the universe would be poorer. If Xanth #31, or Harry Dresden #12 didn't exist, no one would notice. MANY MANY "don't need to exist" books are good fun. I'm happy people have them, bc fun is good!

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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jun 2018

          14/ * The Fall Revolution series by Ken MacLeod, bc it made me realize that very strange and subtle politics (not just bog standard red team / blue team / libertarianism) could be expressed in novel form. Cemented my dislike for Ayn Rand's "lecture" approach.

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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jun 2018

          15/ * Pedido Street Station by China Mieville, for similar reasons. Dude's a Marxist, but he can WRITE. Also, he - like Ken - doesn't LECTURE you about his politics. He just creates a world according to his axioms and lets you watch and learn as it plays out.

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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 1 Jun 2018

          16/ There are more: need to mention Iain Banks, Larry Niven, and others. But that's a start.

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