“What the hell is Yhor?”“I have no idea.”
Sometimes I feel like a traitor to my genre. As a fantasy author (or science fiction author, or science fantasy author, depending on who’s doing the defining) I’m kind of expected to fully inhabit the...
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Author Brand = Author Magic!
Here’s a picture of me cuddling with a stuffed bear. All part of the magic. Certain questions have to come into an author’s mind. At some point, I have to consider them, too. I am, after all,...
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Magic and, Well, “Not Magic”
In Martin Lewis’s recent review of No Return for Strange Horizons, he writes the following: “Is this fantasy? Is this science fiction? It doesn’t matter. This fusion reaches its apotheosis in the...
View ArticleNo! I Will Not Organize Myself! Okay! A Numbered List, But That’s It!
So, I’m fighting a crappy-ass cold that I’ve been fighting for like two weeks, I picked two scabs earlier, and I’m depressed. So. There will be no organized thoughts-for-paragraphs today, the day of my...
View ArticleThe Botched Language of Jernigans: On Fans and Fannishness and Not Feeling...
Sometimes, I get to feeling pretty distant from fandom. Sometimes, it just seems like such a weird thing, being a fan. Point in fact, of course, I never was a fan of anything — at least not in the...
View ArticleDinosaur Porn and What It Taught Me
Okay, here goes: I’m gonna talk for a moment about rape scenes, and how a person like me — and perhaps other persons who have been involved in critiquing fiction — responds to rape (and rapey) scenes....
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