science fiction, fantasy, and horror book reviews and news
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There are some interesting discussions going on around the web about which direction publishing — specifically the publishing of genre short fiction — may be headed. It’s no secret that many of the smaller print magazines are closing down, something I wrote about in Vanishing Print Zines, and that the ‘big three’ have been limping [...]
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So, what did I bring back from this year’s D-con? A bad cold, for starts. But also some Gene Wolfe books signed in person by the Maestro himself, some dirt-cheap graphic novels, and a few other assorted textual tidbits. Of course, there are also some pictures (of which, I’m ashamed to say, I took far [...]
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Right, my intrepid readers, I am off to the city with the lowest membership numbers for the William Tecumseh Sherman fanclub — yes, Atlanta, home of that yearly geek debauch Dragoncon. I have a camera and a newly acquired netbook, but whether I will use them to bring you an insightful and penetrating con report, [...]
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James Enge recently posted a short exploration of the perils of too much freedom to publish — what happens when a writer runs off at the mouth online and bad poison drips out. Not a good way to make friends, James says, or advance a career. Maybe blogging isn’t such a great idea for writers, [...]
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A couple of weeks ago I saved a groundhog from drowning. I later found out his name was Sidney.
I have an irrationally deep affection for rodents. In fact, if I were to be granted the proverbial three wishes, I’d definitely blow one on conjuring a trained rat as big as a horse — complete with [...]
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Thanks. As you may or may not know, I have Amazon Affiliate links on this site in the vain hope of at least getting a few Amazon gift certificates out of my blog from time to time. The way the program works is that I get a percentage of any sale that Amazon makes when [...]
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If you spend a lot of time outside of your everyday woes, if you indulge in, as it’s often termed, ‘escapism,’ then doesn’t that become as real a part of yourself as anything else? I’m not talking about confusing reality with fantasy like Tom Hanks’ disastrous LARPing epidsode, but how transcending the mundane through literature, [...]
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The other day I had to go get a new battery for the lawn mower, so naturally I ended up at the local Goodwill buying books. Got some good stuff; non-fiction ranging from bios of Lindbergh and Teddy Roosevelt, to a book on Gurkhas, something about Mallory and Everest, and one about Ernest Shackelton’s Arctic [...]
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