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Fraser A. Sherman

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This author is also published under Fraser Sherman.

I started writing when I graduated college with a major I no longer wanted to use. Fortunately I turned out to be good at it. I write film reference books, historical fantasy, and Undead Sexist Cliches, a book dissecting the stupidity of misogynist arguments. Some of my books are under Fraser Sherman because I never thought the use of my middle initial would matter.

Personal stuff? I was born in England, spent most of my life in Florida, moved to Durham NC when I fell in love — and yes, it worked out great
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Danny Ocean, Batman, a vicar and some umbrellas: a movie and TV

Steven Soderbergh has spent his career doing art movies like Kafka (which tanked badly enough I’ve never been able to find it for rewatching) and paying the bills with hits such as Erin Brockovich. I presume it’s that pragmatic approach that led to himn directing OCEAN’S THIRTEEN (2007) as a follow up to .

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User Friendly by Spider Robinson
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Unlike the previous collection of his I read, there are just too many pieces that don't work. A story about horrifically alien possession in which a character says being raped multiple times was more enjoyable (nobody emerges from rape thinking "hey, ...more
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The Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan 1 by W.S. Gilbert
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Invisibility by Gregory J. Gbur
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Don't let the title fool you. The body of the book is primarily a physics history discussing how science figured out atomic structure, the nature of light and color, with the occasional fictional take mixed in. At the end we get some discussion of ho ...more
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The Case of the Restless Redhead by Erle Stanley Gardner
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In the first chapter Perry watches the eponymous redhead's defense attorney struggling to clear her of a theft charge. Perry gives him some tips, which prompts the redhead to come to him with another legal problem. As usually happens in the series, j ...more
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The Case of the Colonist's Corpse by Bob Ingersoll
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The premise here is that Sam Cogley (Kirk's attorney in "Court Martial") has many other colorful cases, such as this one involving a colonist apparently murdered by the head of a rival Klingon colony. The model is Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason.
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To Live Forever by Jack Vance
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The setting is a far future world where those who climb to the highest level of society get immortality by cloning. Protagonist Waylock made the jump, broke the law, got sentenced to death but survived. Now, posing as his own surviving clone, he plan ...more
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The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager by Thomas Hine
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Hine looks at the way America (and other cultures before us) have understood and dealt with adolescence. As he sees it, for a long time being a teenager was less important than things like how big you were (a strapping 12 year old might be a worker b ...more
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Crimson Streets #3 by Janet B. Carden
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Another set of tales from the Crimson Streets online magazine. Good, with "Omphalos" and its twist on the Lovecraft mythos my favorite. ...more
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Barda by Ngozi Ukazu
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Once upon a time Big Barda was a rising star among the warrior elite of Apokalips, planet of lawful evil. Only she questioned — one of the worst things you can do there — and after she met Scott Free, later known as Mr. Miracle, she questioned more.
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