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Sauron's Inspiration
By mcd on March 10th, 2010 at 01:24am ()- mcd's blog
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Non-Christian Narnias
By mcd on March 05th, 2010 at 03:17pm ()Via twitter: Razib at Gene Expression digresses from gene expression to the question of religion and fantasy. He manages to dig up more Jewish fantasy writers than Michael Weingrad did for his article in the Jewish Review of Books, Why There Is No Jewish Narnia:
To put it crudely, if Christianity is a fantasy religion, then Judaism is a science fiction religion.
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Nebula Award Nominations
By mcd on February 19th, 2010 at 03:21pm ()Via twitter: nominations for the Nebula Awards are up at sfwa.org. I think the only thing I’ve read this year is Michael Burstein’s “I Remember the Future,” but several of the shorter works are linked so I can catch up.
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Kage Baker
By mcd on February 01st, 2010 at 06:10pm ()Locus Online posts a brief obituary for Kage Baker, who died of cancer yesterday.
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My Shortest Story
By mcd on January 14th, 2010 at 04:59pm ()My shortest story yet was published today at Thaumatrope, an sf/f/h twitter fiction magazine. I dimly recall submitting it, apparently in response to a call for steampunk and/or holiday stories, but I figured Bad Elf had killed little Timmy and buried his body in the slush pile.
To submit your own 140 characters of immortal speculative prose, all you need is a twitter account.
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Horror on the Horizon
By mcd on December 13th, 2009 at 11:07pm ()A little horror story of mine will be appearing when least expected. More details will follow as they become available.
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The Stories of Now
By mcd on September 18th, 2009 at 10:53am ()Via twitter: Kim Stanley Robinson has an article in New Scientist about Virginia Woolf, Olaf Stapledon, the Booker Prize, the current golden age of British science fiction, and stories of now. New Scientist also has eight flash stories up under the fiction of now, and a flash contest: 350 words or less, due October 15th.
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