gwern comments on September 2013 Media Thread - Less Wrong

4 Post author: ArisKatsaris 01 September 2013 11:05AM

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Comment author: MugaSofer 04 September 2013 08:41:23PM 2 points [-]

For some reason, this appears to be among the only - two? three? - pieces of Culture fanfiction ever written. I have no idea why.

Comment author: gwern 11 September 2013 08:47:47PM 2 points [-]

How would you know, given that you are not on Usenet or plugged into the SF fanzines of the '80s or '90s when Banks was huge?

Comment author: David_Gerard 17 September 2013 08:59:23PM -1 points [-]

So are there in fact lots?

Comment author: gwern 18 September 2013 03:04:46AM 0 points [-]

My point here is more that you aren't looking under the proverbial lamppost, so the absence of evidence is not very strong evidence of absence.

Comment author: David_Gerard 18 September 2013 07:21:03PM * -1 points [-]

Mm, I was mostly just hopeful. I've just been actually looking online and accumulating a list, fwiw. I'll post it here later.