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Category Archives: About Writing
Steampunk
Confession: I have a deep and abiding affection for the Victorian period (no one reading this blog will be surprised to hear it, so the use of the word “confession” is just a little extra melodrama for you). Something about … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann VanderMeer, Ghosts by Gaslight, James P. Blaylock, Jeff VanderMeer, John Clute, Peter Nicholls, Steampunk, Stepan Chapman, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Victorians
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Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland
I’ve always had somewhat mixed feelings about Alice in Wonderland, which might be considered odd given that I own at least seven different editions, including the Norton Critical Edition (1992; all quotations to follow are taken from this text). I … Continue reading
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The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror, Volume 21
Although I’d read The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror series (St. Martin’s, 1988-2008) since its inception, I’ve never read any one volume as deliberately as I read the 2008 edition (the 21st volume in the series and, sadly, the last). … Continue reading
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Tagged Ellen Datlow, Gavin Grant, Kelly Link, Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 2008
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Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman has long been a favorite writer of mine, going back to The Sandman. And, because his work is often published in limited editions, he feeds not only a reading love but also a bibliophilic one. I certainly enjoyed … Continue reading
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Feeling Very Strange
Slipstream isn’t a genre I’d been very familiar with prior to reading Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel; I’d heard of slipstream, read many writers who are apparently engaged in it (though … Continue reading
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Tagged James Patrick Kelly, Jeffrey Ford, John Kessel, Kelly Link, slipstream, Ursula K. Le Guin
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