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The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf: Miles and Miles -- Or Maybe Not
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The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf. Science fiction and fantasy news and book reviews. Monday, October 27, 2014. Miles and Miles - Or Maybe Not. Take for instance Alan Shepard's Golf Ball. Which makes me feel sad, because there was so much promise in that story that could've been brought out with a little more thought instead of taking the easy way out in the haste to get the story finished. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe To The Billion LIght-Year Bookshelf. View my complete profile.
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The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf: When They Don't Know Their Own History
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The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf. Science fiction and fantasy news and book reviews. Sunday, December 14, 2014. When They Don't Know Their Own History. I've written before of the problems that happen when writers don't read the foundational works of their own genre. In reference to the breathless praise being heaped upon certain recent works by reviewers who seem to never have read Ursula K LeGuin's award-winning The Left Hand of Darkness. In which humanity has a presence on the Red Planet - but it is ve...
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The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf: November 2011
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The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf. Science fiction and fantasy news and book reviews. Tuesday, November 22, 2011. Farewell, Anne McCaffrey. Sad news for all fans of Pern and of all her other series. After a long and very productive writing career, Anne McCaffrey is no more. A massive heart attack has taken her from this world. She will be missed. But her writing will stand for the ages. Friday, November 4, 2011. Women, Men and Reviews. Bad News for Horror Readers and Writers. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf: October 2014
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The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf. Science fiction and fantasy news and book reviews. Monday, October 27, 2014. Miles and Miles - Or Maybe Not. Take for instance Alan Shepard's Golf Ball. Which makes me feel sad, because there was so much promise in that story that could've been brought out with a little more thought instead of taking the easy way out in the haste to get the story finished. Thursday, October 23, 2014. On Taking Yourself Too Seriously. Sunday, October 19, 2014. Language, Time and the Reader.
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Reading, Writing and Bookselling. February 6th, 2017. For Love and Money. The Passive Guy has an excerpt from an interesting article about the history of writing for money. Even back in the time of the ancient Greeks, the poet who wrote for a fee, rather than for patron, was viewed as suspect. It makes me think of Lewis Hyde's discussion of the tension between artists' need to make a living and fear of being perceived as "crass" or having "sold out" if they write for money. January 8th, 2015. Mercilessly...
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Reading, Writing and Bookselling. December 12th, 2016. Back in the mid-1990's, when Internet access first began to expand beyond the scientific and academic communities, everybody got inundated with a spam promising to "Make Money Fast." It was so common that it soon became the object of ridicule for its outrageous claims that using the spammer's secrets, you could make millions practically overnight. Money" by Pink Floyd. August 23rd, 2016. No Place Like Home. I love going to conventions, and really mis...
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Reading, Writing and Bookselling. October 30th, 2016. Books, Books, and More Books. Better than water, water everywhere, which is what our plumbing is threatening to give us. While we're trying to nurse a failing drain along until we can get a plumber out here to work on it, here are some delightfully spooky reads for Halloween. Rachel and the Many-Splendored Dreamland by L. Jagi Lamplighter. It’s Halloween at the Roanoke Academy for the Sorcerous Arts, and Rachel Griffin is stirring up the dead! It will...
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The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf: When at First You Don't Succeed
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The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf. Science fiction and fantasy news and book reviews. Wednesday, November 5, 2014. When at First You Don't Succeed. One thing I really enjoy is watching writers grow. I am far quicker to forgive a failed first story or novel than a clunker by an established author, especially if the beginning writer then follows that problematic first work with pieces that show learning and development. Recently, I blogged about my frustration with serious structural problems. On the Bounda...
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The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf: December 2014
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The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf. Science fiction and fantasy news and book reviews. Friday, December 26, 2014. The Intestinal Fortitude of the Independents. I'm happy to see that The Interview. And with that bolstering their courage, Sony also decided to release The Interview. Online, which means that anybody with an adequate Internet connection can watch it, even in the absence of an independent theater showing it. Thursday, December 18, 2014. Back in 1989, when the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa.
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The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf: June 2014
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The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf. Science fiction and fantasy news and book reviews. Tuesday, June 24, 2014. A Rebel Yell Echoes in R'lyeh. However, as the Lovecraft Mythos has slip-slid into the public domain and become a common set of cultural references, we've seen a lot of stories set in a wide variety of places. Lovecraft tended to concentrate on New England settings because he was himself from Rhode Island, but other authors often choose settings with which they are more familiar.