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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle - John Scalzi</h1>
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2015-03-20
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/john-scalzi/">#john scalzi</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/reviews/">#reviews</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/scifi/">#scifi</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/stars-3/">#stars:3</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/published-2012/">#published:2012</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16157467-subterranean-scalzi-super-bundle">GoodReads Summary</a>:</p>
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<p>Subterranean Press bundles together all of their John Scalzi titles into one easy-to-buy special this November:</p>
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<p>How I Proposed To My Wife: An Alien Sex Story</p>
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<p>An Election</p>
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<p>Judge Sn Goes Golfing</p>
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<p>Questions for a Soldier</p>
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<p>The Sagan Diary</p>
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<p>The Tale of the Wicked</p>
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<p>The God Engines</p>
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<p>You're Not fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to the Coffee Shop</p>
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★★★☆☆
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<p><strong>the stories are good, the blog posts, not so much</strong></p>
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<p>This is a book on five acts. </p>
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<p>The first act you have the stories. In this act, "The Diary of Jane Sagan" and
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"God Machines" are going to get stuck in your head, 'cause they are pretty
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excellent stories.</p>
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<p>The second act are blog posts, which are meh.</p>
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<p>The third act is a single story, which is ok.</p>
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<p>The fourth act are more blog posts, which manages to be more Boeing than the
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ones in the second act. </p>
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<p>The fifth act are unused chapters from "Lock In". They are probably good, if
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you read the published story.</p>
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<p>Now, while the stories are good, the fact that 70% of the book are blog posts
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is a real let down, mostly because I think blog posts are boring. Sure, there
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are exceptions to this rule, like Wil Weathon's book, in which he just don't
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put the posts, but actually put some background about them. For Scalzi, there
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is no such reflections and most of the posts are not even interesting, 'cause
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they are temporal or regional (like elections and things related to the USA).
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After a while, I just skipped most of them. </p>
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<p>Is it a worth book? Hard to answer. If I had only the stories and no blog
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posts, that would be awesome, but the posts just make the book longer without
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the need for such.</p>
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