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Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Denki Jidai (a brief history of Japanese SF 2/3)
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As we saw in part one , Japan’s rich literary history had prepared Japanese writers for the influx of European style speculative fiction ...
Thursday, September 7, 2017
The Stumbling Block
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Context: I was reading a story I thought was great, then felt it starting to stumble, and just reached the part where I would get out my ...
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Iron Tengu, Bamboo Girl (a brief history of Japanese SF 1/3)
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These days, no-one really questions Japanese influence on modern science fiction – from the dark Orientalist fantasies of Japanese corpora...
Saturday, September 2, 2017
Write Short, Write Fast, Write Often
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Original images by Sebastien D'ARCO, animation by Koba-chan CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1044915 ...
Thursday, August 31, 2017
Campbell vs Wollheim
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Jacopo Zucci's "The Golden Age" (1575) I recently returned to Robert Silverberg's essay on the "Golden Age...
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Who needs another hero?
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Heroes. Who needs them! Just another holier-than-thou vehicle for someone’s personal hangups. Just another over-inflated cardboard cut...
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Friday, August 25, 2017
Fat Cats and Hippies
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Frank Zappa gave the interview this clip is from to MTV's "The Cutting Edge" in 1987. In this section he outlines a problem...
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