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Lawrence M. Schoen

Autor de Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard

61+ Obras 508 Miembros 35 Reseñas 1 Preferidas

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Lawrence M. Schoen was born on July 27, 1959 in Chicago, Illinois. He has a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics. He is the publisher and chief editor of Paper Golem, a speculative fiction small press. Prime Codex was his first book. His other edited works include Alembical 3, with mostrar más Arthur Dorrance, and Cats in Space. He is also an author and has written numerous short stories, novellas and poetry. Barsk: The Elephant's Graveyard is his first novel. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Series

Obras de Lawrence M. Schoen

The Moons of Barsk (2018) 45 copias
Prime Codex (2007) — Editor — 27 copias
Alembical (2008) 16 copias
Buffalito Destiny (2009) 15 copias
Buffalogic, Inc. (2003) 10 copias
Slice of Entropy (2021) 9 copias
Buffalogenesis (2006) 7 copias
Buffalo Dogs (2019) 6 copias
Pangaea II: The Rise of Dominjaron (2016) — Autor — 6 copias
Buffalito Contingency (2011) 6 copias
Calendrical Regression (2014) 6 copias
Buffalogistics (2008) 5 copias
Buffalito Buffet (2012) 4 copias
The Moment 4 copias
Aliens and AIs 3 copias
Barry's Deal (2017) 3 copias
Cat Futures 2 copias
A Fool's Death 2 copias
Euphemism Skin 2 copias
Pirates of Marz (2021) 1 copia
Thinking 1 copia
Texas Fold'Em 1 copia
Retro-virus 1 copia
Pun Gazing 1 copia
Pidgin 1 copia
Cucurbital 3 (2012) 1 copia
Cucurbital 2 (2011) 1 copia
Barry's Tale 1 copia

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Strange New Worlds III (2000) — Contribuidor — 132 copias
Magic in the Mirrorstone: Tales of Fantasy (2008) — Contribuidor — 113 copias
Nebula Awards Showcase 2016 (2016) — Contribuidor — 63 copias
All Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories (2004) — Contribuidor — 57 copias
Nebula Awards Showcase 2017 (2017) — Contribuidor — 39 copias
The Stories in Between: A Between Books Anthology (2009) — Contribuidor — 24 copias
Funny Science Fiction (2015) — Contribuidor — 18 copias
TEL: Stories (2005) — Contribuidor — 13 copias
Pangaea (2015) — Contribuidor — 11 copias
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 68 • January 2016 (2015) — Contribuidor — 10 copias
Barren Worlds (2008) — Contribuidor — 10 copias
Desolate Places (2008) — Contribuidor — 8 copias
Nebula Awards Showcase 54 (2020) — Contribuidor — 7 copias
Destination: Future (2010) — Contribuidor — 7 copias
Footprints (2009) — Contribuidor — 6 copias
ReDeus: Divine Tales (2012) — Contribuidor — 6 copias
Best of the Rest 4 — Contribuidor — 6 copias
World Jumping (2013) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Transtories (2011) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
ReDeus: Beyond Borders (Volume 2) (2013) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
InterGalactic Medicine Show, Issue 61 — Contribuidor — 1 copia

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I always welcome a return to the universe around Schoen's Barsk series, where elephant-like Fants and other anthropomorphic creatures formed civilizations in space. This novelette is quite gentle and low-key, just the thing I needed, and deals with repercussions from the novels as a panda-like space station commander copes with a shifting worldview with the help of a capybara-like therapist. The cover of the book depicts this in delightful fashion.
 
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ladycato | Jan 15, 2024 |
This book is made up of the English-language science fiction short story "Buffalo Dogs" and its translation into thirty different languages, including French, Italian, Hindi, Tamil, two varieties of Spanish, and Klingon. (Author Schoen is the founder of the Klingon Language Institute, and seems to have done that translation himself.) For this to work, I think the paratext would have  to make the case that this was a worthy project... but in his introduction, Schoen devotes only about a paragraph to the book itself, and it pretty much just says, "I thought it would be fun, so I did it." Any sense of why this might have been a noteworthy idea is absent.

On top of that, I found the story in question pretty bad. It's about a hypnotist who abuses his powers to violate people's consent in order to carry out illegal acts for not really any reason at all other than that he is greedy. Wow, what a hero! I also found the worldbuilding pretty unconvincing; it's clearly there to make the story work, but doesn't make sense on its own merits. The cover blurb for the book says, "Maybe, just maybe, the power of the buffalitos will bring us all together and we’ll begin treating one another better," but it's about a guy who goes around treating other people quite horribly! If you want to pick a story to bring the world together, there had to have been a better one.
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Stevil2001 | otra reseña | Oct 15, 2023 |
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/hugos-2023-best-related-work/

A single short story translated into into thirty languages, including “Croation” [sic] and two varieties of Spanish. I absolutely support its eligibility for the category – to be eligible, a nominee “if fictional, is noteworthy primarily for aspects other than the fictional text, and … is not eligible in any other category.” The story “Buffalo Dogs” itself was first published in 2001, so it is not eligible for this year’s Best Short Story or Best Novelette categories (at 7800 words it’s on the cusp between them). And the whole point of Buffalito World Outreach Project is that it’s noteworthy not for the primary text but because of the translations. You can get it here.

However, to adapt Dr Johnson, this is a case of being impressed that the thing has been done at all, rather than wondering if it has been done well. I am glad that this has been done, but the other five finalists are more worthy winners.
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nwhyte | otra reseña | Oct 1, 2023 |
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The series has the same name as the first book, a d they weren't telling which I was getting till I got it. So it was way short, and therefore too simple
 
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acb13adm | 2 reseñas más. | Sep 13, 2023 |

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