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  • noun Plural form of ansible.

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  • I'm very good at worldbuilding and proper use of ansibles;

    Boing Boing 2008

  • Le Guin could, under her view copyright, prohibit other authors from using ansibles in their works, or else sue those authors who do reference them.

    2009 December « The View From LL2 2009

  • Her science fiction is great too, and she is undoubtedly an icon of the genre; I love the fact that, forty years after she invented the ansible, other authors still use the devices in their books, even borrowing the same technological constraints that Le Guin used, as if ansibles were somehow a common heritage of all scifi universes.

    2009 December « The View From LL2 2009

  • Posted in Copywrong, Literature and Poetry and Other Pretentious Ramblings | Tagged ansibles, copyright, science fiction, ursula k. le guin | Leave a Comment »

    2009 December « The View From LL2 2009

  • I'm very good at worldbuilding and proper use of ansibles;

    Modern SF Novelist jimhines 2008

  • I'm very good at worldbuilding and proper use of ansibles;

    Archive 2008-07-01 Glenda Larke 2008

  • I'm very good at worldbuilding and proper use of ansibles;

    थे फुन्निएस्त थिंग i हवे सीन अल डे लॉन्ग... 2008

  • I'm very good at worldbuilding and proper use of ansibles;

    Archive 2008-07-01 2008

  • I'm very good at worldbuilding and proper use of ansibles;

    Poetry in SF notion... Glenda Larke 2008

  • Entertainment, you say, and yes, that's true, but if entertainment is all we're after, there's no need to bother with stories that invent ansibles and FTL drives and generation ships (on the one hand) or talk about wizards and selkies and ghouls (on the other).

    World Building: Fantasy vs. Science Fiction 2005

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