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Category Archives: Thoughts about Writing
The Hugos, 2016; Some Good Novels
I’ve read four great SF novels this months, and three of them would be eligible for Hugo nominations. One I read as an ARC and it will not be released until 2016. The others, however, I recommend highly, depending on … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann Leckie, Charles E Gannon, Hugos 2016, N K Jemisin, novels, Robert Jackson Bennett
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Whose Story is This, Anyway?
Two years ago I wrote a short fantasy story. It had a first-person narrator, in the person of a slackerish teenaged boy in a strange family. It started off with an almost-funny premise, and I tried to create pop-culture-weird family … Continue reading
There are Doors
There are doors in books. Not every door in every book opens for every person, but when they do, they can take us far outside ourselves, or deep within ourselves, or into a place that’s sideways from where we walk … Continue reading
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The Hugos, 2016: Persona by Genevieve Valentine
Here is a must-read 2015 novel by the author of Mechanique; Tales of the Circus Tresaulti, and The Girls of the Kingfisher Club. In Persona, Valentine attempts a full-throttle near-future science fiction novel, and nails it. In Persona, global politics … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016 Hugos, Genevieve Valentine, must-read, science fiction, William Gibson
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Reading Suggestions; Hugo-Eligible in 2016
So far, the best fantasy novel of 2015 is Scott Hawkins’s The Library at Mount Char. Against the backdrop of a town that looks like Anywhere, USA — at least ’til you get up close — Hawkins unleashes an original … Continue reading
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The Hugos, 2016: Chapter One
I can hear you already. “Oh, noooo! She’s at it again! Not more Hugo stuff, please!” Well, yes, more Hugo stuff, but this is completely different. This is Hugo 2016. Okay, well, not completely different. It’s a little bit different. … Continue reading
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The Conference, Day One
UPDATE: I found this sitting in Drafts — I thought I’d published it. Anyway, better late than never, I guess. August 6, 2015 Karen Lewis is the new executive director of the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference, but Maureen Epstein, “Director … Continue reading
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John Scalzi, Alexandra Erin and That Guy Who Hates John Scalzi
That Guy Who Hates John Scalzi had a diabolically clever plan to use the Great Hugo Kerfluffle of 2015 as a launching pad for a book he wrote about how Social Justice Warriors Always Lie. His book is about 200 … Continue reading
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The Conference, Day Three; But So…
Corbett is clear that a work of fiction needs tension to rise until the climax, and that “tension” is not necessarily action. Again, it’s not the dump truck. Stories and novels that have characters reacting to one random event after … Continue reading
The Hugos, Chapter 8: Well, Someone Learned a Lesson, and I Hope It’s Us
The Hugo awards were presented Saturday, August 22, in Spokane, Washington. After four months of hyperbole and uproar the splinter groups achieved very little. They did not take a single award for original work. One thing they nominated, the film … Continue reading
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