Stephen Brace
https://www.goodreads.com/CapnSteve
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
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“Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.”
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“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
― Time Enough for Love
― Time Enough for Love
“There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.”
― Tanstaafl: A Plan for a New Economic World Order
― Tanstaafl: A Plan for a New Economic World Order
Alternate Realities: A Scifi Book Club
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— last activity Nov 29, 2025 03:03PM
Online book club discussion of Scifi books. We will pick a book to read each month through polls, so be sure to vote. Hopefully we broaden our reading ...more
Stephen’s 2024 Year in Books
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