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And that brings me to what I call a Tale of Three Taxpayers - three fictitious taxpayers with very real but different service needs that we are meeting in different innovative ways.
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Talking of tearooms, my very favourite bit in A Canterbury Tale is the exchange between the GIs in the tearoom, where one says he hates tea, the other says "it's not marijuana", the first says that he'd prefer marijuana and the second says "you'll have tea and like it!".
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The second point about Zoe's Tale is its emotional detachment.
Book Report: Zoe's Tale, by John Scalzi Ulysses 2009
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The second point about Zoe's Tale is its emotional detachment.
Archive 2009-06-01 Ulysses 2009
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I've enjoyed John Scalzi's books in the past primarily for the voice he brings to each story, and Zoe's Tale is no exception.
Book Report: Zoe's Tale, by John Scalzi Ulysses 2009
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Zoe's Tale is obviously better, the other two are just bad.
Book Cover Smackdown! Zoe's Tale vs. Killswitch vs. Leviathan 2009
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I was also unable to nominate two of my other favorites - Daniel Abraham's "The Curandero and the Swede: a Tale from the American 1001 Nights" from F&SF, a very strange and somewhat discomfiting story of subaltern American histories, and Ann Leckie's "The Nalendar" from Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, a fun, brightly colored adventure story in which a young girl and a divine lizard take on a powerful river-goddess.
MIND MELD: More Nebula-Worthy Works of Fiction...Picked By Some of This Year's Nebula Nominees 2010
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The style of The Thrall's Tale is a brilliant featthe book reads almost as if you had translated it from Old Norse to some old English dialect.
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Zoe's Tale is a beautiful cover but I've had it Up To Here with rustic elements in my s-f. * yawn * So, on a purely personal note, I'd give it a miss.
Book Cover Smackdown! Zoe's Tale vs. Killswitch vs. Leviathan 2009
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I've enjoyed John Scalzi's books in the past primarily for the voice he brings to each story, and Zoe's Tale is no exception.
Archive 2009-06-01 Ulysses 2009
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