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In the case of Steampunk, what worked well was contrast -- to try to show the variety of first-wave Steampunk stories (there cannot be two more different stories than the Joe Lansdale and Molly Brown selections in that antho).
MIND MELD: Behind the Scenes...How the Hottest Short Fiction Anthologies Are Created (Part 1) 2009
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Leading first-wave minimalists Terry Riley and Mr. Young both played saxophone.
Rhys Chatham Brings the Noise Steve Dollar 2010
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Science is usually sensor platforms (like Hubble), first-wave robotic exploration and long-term robot surveys of distant objects (see the BIS 'Daedelus' project for a particularly ambitious example).
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I hate the ignorant first-wave colonists and their ignorant lives.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Vol. 38 debuts at No. 120, Vol. 40 at No. 126 and Vol. 39 at No. 131, just as first-wave volumes 37 and 36 slip to Nos. 141 and 150, respectively.
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Though some of the old sensibility is detectable – mainly in the lyrics' gloomy worldview epitomised by I'm Having a Coffee's Pooterish line "The fuse has bust on the plug on the telly/ There's something strange at the back of the fridge" and their penchant for Asian flavours such as sitars – you'd hardly recognise them as first-wave synth-poppers.
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She didn't wear shoulder pads (that was Career Woman: never that popular, thanks to Sigourney Weaver), and she didn't wear her pants over her tights (that was first-wave Superwoman).
Come back 'Superwoman': the lost ideal of combining motherhood and work 2011
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It's fun, there's no time to get bored, but shorn of the context of first-wave hardcore – a music that forever altered heavy guitar bands' approach to velocity – it's a bit empty.
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Those in their late teens through mid-20s are "first-wave" millennials because they're the ones who set the trends that this later wave (born between the early 1990s and about 2003 or 2004) continues to follow, suggests historian and demographer Neil Howe, co-author of several books on the generations.
It's cooler than ever to be a tween, but is childhood lost? 2009
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I hate the ignorant first-wave colonists and their ignorant lives.
365 tomorrows » Duncan Shields : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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