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It's a difficult thing to distill, since, as Gilsdorf discovers, fantasy worlds mean vastly different things to their different inhabitants.
Stefan Sirucek: Geek Like Me: A Review of Ethan Gilsdorf's Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks 2010
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Gilsdorf describes the people and places he observes in his travels in playful and unabashedly geeky prose.
Stefan Sirucek: Geek Like Me: A Review of Ethan Gilsdorf's Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks 2010
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Along the way he confronts enduring stereotypes of role players and gamers - namely that they are emotionally stunted basement-dwellers - a stigma belied by the people Gilsdorf encounters: parents, teachers and soldiers who are in turns generous, brave - even sexy.
Stefan Sirucek: Geek Like Me: A Review of Ethan Gilsdorf's Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks 2010
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Gilsdorf suggest that the cultural drift toward the legitimation of escapist fantasy is a good thing, for a variety of reasons:
January 2010 2010
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It's these true believers that Gilsdorf sets out to mingle with and learn from - to explore what fantasy means to him and to them.
Stefan Sirucek: Geek Like Me: A Review of Ethan Gilsdorf's Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks 2010
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Gilsdorf, a freelance journalist whose writing appears regularly in the Boston Globe and New York Times, returns to the fantasy games that he used to navigate a difficult childhood as a jumping-off point for a full-scale investigation of geekdom.
Stefan Sirucek: Geek Like Me: A Review of Ethan Gilsdorf's Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks 2010
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Gilsdorf presents even his most outlandish encounters straightforwardly, rarely judging anyone but himself, which he does often and largely to comic effect.
Stefan Sirucek: Geek Like Me: A Review of Ethan Gilsdorf's Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks 2010
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Gilsdorf suggest that the cultural drift toward the legitimation of escapist fantasy is a good thing, for a variety of reasons:
Nelfs on Pandora 2010
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Gilsdorf, from the University of Michigan Medical Center, pulls no punches with this sentence:
Archive 2008-08-01 james gaulte 2008
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Gilsdorf, from the University of Michigan Medical Center, pulls no punches with this sentence:
Physicians learning to be shift workers? james gaulte 2008
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