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  • Ditmar season

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    It’s Ditmar season! I know this because of the flurry of emails I’ve received from people reminding me of their eligibility. I had 2 short stories published last year, necessarily down from 6 in 2009 (the year A BOOK OF ENDINGS was published): No Going Home in SPRAWL and Home Turf in BAGGAGE. I’ll happily send…

  • The irony of writing: Joss Whedon

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    Not so shiny: Plenty of drama for Buffy creator Joss Whedon — Bernard Zuel, Sydney Morning Herald, August 25, 2010 More seriously, he says that the cancellation of Firefly not only made him “the sourest man alive” but had an unexpected and potentially devastating side effect. “I stopped having ideas, which for me is an…

  • AA-ed

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    It was bittersweet being at the LAST Fantastic Queensland AA ceremony. Before FQ took over, I never even attended an AA event. But they made such a classy event out of it that eventually I found I couldn’t NOT attend. I’m looking forward to hearing which brave souls take up the baton. (I was about…

  • Ansible makes me laugh

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    From the latest Ansible: Ursula K. Le Guin laments the passing of the squid: ‘[L]ast night on the Lehrer news hour Margaret Atwood did not say she did not write science fiction because she did not write about talking squids, but said that she did not write science fiction because she did not write about…

  • Covering up

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    OK, so I’m getting a little obsessed with cover art (ever since Nick Stathopoulos turned in the fabulous A Book of Endings cover!). Yesterday I spent a couple hours staring at these sites: http://www.thebookdesignreview.com http://shelvedbooks.blogspot.com http://henryseneyee.blogspot.com I also followed various links, finding myself in a world of cover debate. Including a link to a rant…

  • Not that I needed to expand my reading list

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    BUT lots of interesting reading suggested at SF Signal. In this case, non-genre titles for genre readers. And there’s also recommendations on literary fiction for people who hate literary fiction at Emerald City.

  • Pretty sure this qualifies as a manifesto

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    :) benpeek goes a little crazy talking about how the rest of us are crazy for always talking about genre. Or something. Over here.

  • Quite possibly the most interesting exchange I’ve seen so far on livejournal

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    I could summarise it as, ‘just how crap is SF, really?’ Answers are never simple, are they. :) Good. http://www.livejournal.com/users/ninebelow/83410.html?nc=41 (Thanks, coalescent.)

  • All growed up

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    Over at filomancer‘s blog, some interesting comments are being made about the apparent decline in SF readership. Sometimes I think that what’s happened is that sf has become too sophisticated for its core audience, which used to be teenage boys. Their attention span, and maybe yours and mine, isn’t going to last through three paragraphs’…

  • Twisted

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    The Lester Dent thing got some notice recently, & slithytove noted: 1) it mentions character almost not at all; 2) it emphasizes plot twists, which I rarely hear talked about. Interesting. Because plot, I thought, was more important to genre writers than mainstream writers. I mean, just anecdotally. Just going from what you hear discussed…