A brief report on the 4th Street Fantasy writers seminar
Although I wasn’t able to arrange my life so to be able to attend the Fourth St Fanatasy convention (because I found out about it just a few weeks ago), I did manage to make the Writers Seminar, which...
View ArticleAppreciation: the portrait of a marriage in Glamour in Glass
In Glamour in Glass, Mary Robinette Kowal takes the Jane Austen plus magic set up of Shades of Milk and Honey and extends it by throwing her heroine Jane into marriage and the middle of a looming war....
View ArticleFive Observations on My Summer Genre Fiction Reading
As the summer winds to a close (both the college I work at and the school my daughter attends started their academic year today), I find myself reflecting on the genre reading that I have done this...
View ArticleThinking through a new SF&F awards system
I am intrigued by Justin Landon’s call for a new system of SF&F awards. I don’t have the same nostalgia for the Hugo Awards as many other SF&F fans because I didn’t become aware of them until I...
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