• (ReacTor) Over the Hill: Five Not-So-Youthful SFF Protagonists

    From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 19 19:34:43 2024
    On 18 Jul 2024 14:25:11 -0000, jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
    wrote:

    Over the Hill: Five Not-So-Youthful SFF Protagonists

    Protagonists in their late twenties or even older are still alive
    in many senses of the word, and can still have adventures, of a sort.

    Brought to you by a conversation I overheard between teens.

    https://reactormag.com/over-the-hill-five-not-so-youthful-sff-protagonists/

    One wonders what these kids would think of Lazarus Long

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  • From John Savard@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 19 23:37:48 2024
    On 18 Jul 2024 14:25:11 -0000, jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
    wrote:

    Over the Hill: Five Not-So-Youthful SFF Protagonists

    Protagonists in their late twenties or even older are still alive
    in many senses of the word, and can still have adventures, of a sort.

    Brought to you by a conversation I overheard between teens.

    https://reactormag.com/over-the-hill-five-not-so-youthful-sff-protagonists/

    Being sixty-eight years of age, I found the piece comical.

    John Savard

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to quadibloc@servername.invalid on Sun Jul 21 22:47:44 2024
    On Fri, 19 Jul 2024 23:37:48 -0600, John Savard
    <quadibloc@servername.invalid> wrote:

    On 18 Jul 2024 14:25:11 -0000, jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
    wrote:

    Over the Hill: Five Not-So-Youthful SFF Protagonists

    Protagonists in their late twenties or even older are still alive
    in many senses of the word, and can still have adventures, of a sort.

    Brought to you by a conversation I overheard between teens.
    https://reactormag.com/over-the-hill-five-not-so-youthful-sff-protagonists/

    Being sixty-eight years of age, I found the piece comical.

    John Savard

    As did I - being the same age. Went through that page and realized the
    ONLY one of the books I had read there was the Miles Vorkosigan book -
    and am enough of a fan of Bujold's work that I am sad I got rid of the
    issue of Analog (or was it Asimov's? Can't remember - I subscribed
    both but ended my subscriptions when I started grad school as I had to
    move every 4 months for 2 1/2 years...) where the first story in the
    series was published.

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