Not to mention he continued to gleefully do photo ops with Diagolon members even *after* Jeremy MacKenzie said some truly heinous things about Poilievre’s wife.

Wow. This is an absolutely stunning example of mealy-mouthed “both-sides-ism”. I’ve been a reader and listener of yours for many, many years, and while I have —very occasionally—disagreed with your perspective, this is the first time you’ve disappointed me.

Unfortunately, in the US, no shooting of any kind will ever be a wake up call.

It’s not anything close to Haida art, but I can see how one might make the association.

So well deserved! I loved the hell out of this book. Lots of fun little tricks.

I adore them too, have read them all multiple times, and still pull one out from time to time as a comfort read. But they wouldn’t be my first choice to give to an eleven year old today. They’re 75 years old now! Better for when the kid is already hooked on SF and has run out of things to read.

This whole forced nostalgia phenomenon makes me crazy. There are so many great books less than, say, 20 years old, to put in front of a kid. Stop trying to make them read the Heinlein juveniles, or gods forbid, Foundation.

Fair enough. For me it was “Have Spacesuit…” but when I read that as an eight-year-old in the 80s, it felt archaic even then. My own kid at the same age 30 years later, in the late 00s, got around to the juveniles eventually, but I primed him with contemporary writers like Westerfeld first.

I think often it’s a case of someone (someone old) trying to force their own nostalgia onto someone else. It’s just not going to work. By all means, recommend these old works once the new reader is already hooked, but you really need to start them off with something with which they can identify.