George R. R. Martin
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George R. R. Martin is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 28, 2021 and April 19, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as ""George R. R. Martin is fond of calling A Game of Thrones a more ‘grounded’ Lord of the Rings.""; “I wasn’t the first person in the world to discover George R. R. Martin’s books”. It most often appears alongside A Game of Thrones, Africa, African Americans.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: May 28, 2021
- Last seen: April 19, 2023
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- A Game of Thrones (1 shared issues)
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- Africa (1 shared issues)
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- African Americans (1 shared issues)
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- Against Empathy (1 shared issues)
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- Amazon (1 shared issues)
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- Amazon (1 shared issues)
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- American (1 shared issues)
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- American Civil War (1 shared issues)
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- American healthcare (1 shared issues)
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- Americans (1 shared issues)
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- apartheid (1 shared issues)
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- Aristotle (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Now Curtis has cunningly compared an extremely specific (chained to a radiator) with a much more general (falling in love). But the numbers still work if you widen his point out to all kidnappings. Or all serious crime. This kind of thing is everywhere - George R. R. Martin is fond of calling A Game of Thrones a more 'grounded' Lord of the Rings. It's actually drastically less real, just nastier.
For the hipster, this is easy. They have discovered the thing in a dingy bar in Liverpool, so they announce it to the world, and gain credit as the astute taste-having discoverer of X. Even the mildly hip can benefit from this. I wasn’t the first person in the world to discover George R. R. Martin’s books, but I was the first person in my friend group. I recommended them to my friends, and when my friends also liked them, they were grateful to me and I got some mild credit for discovering good books. And if someone else in my friend group liked them, he could bring them to his other friend groups and probably be the first person to advertise them there.