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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: Two SF-adjacent stories from RL
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In article <pan$4cbca$97a8c8af$b601b4c0$30a6382c@cpacker.org>,
Charles Packer  <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
>On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 15:26:27 -0400, William Hyde wrote:
>
>> In the late 1990s, a Canadian civil servant and his daughter were avid
>> players of "Asheron's Call", a game I recall Dorothy mentioning. Through
>> the game the daughter met her future husband, a German guy who moved to
>> Canada and tried to set up an internet sales site specializing in
>> snowboards.  He hated all the options then available, so started his own
>> company with cash from his father in law, who got shares.
>> 
>> Over the past five years the father-in-law, Bruce McKean, has donated
>> 200 million dollars to CAMH (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
>> Foundation).
>> 
>> The young man's company turned out to be Shopify.  Of course, he might
>> have had the same success regardless of who he married, but CAMH
>> wouldn't have gained 200 mil without "Asheron's Call".
>> 
>> Kevin Lambert grew up in a Quebec town where his main supply of reading
>> material came from Costco.  His early reading included  Harry Potter,
>> Narenia, and "A series of unfortunate events".
>> 
>> His novels are non-genre, but he still cites those works as influences,
>> and has won a slew of prestigious literary awards in France.  Pity
>> Harold Bloom can't be told about this.
>> 
>> The author is in transition (and doesn't care what pronouns you use,
>> hence the above) but still likes the Potter books, though he's not at
>> all keen on JKR.  Once published, he says, a book has a life of its own,
>> independent of the author's later opinions.
>> 
>
>What's RL?
>

What indeed!

Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide..
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