By Guest Poster on October 13, 2009
The latest installment in an occasional series on speculative fiction by guest poster patrickg: Distant Suns: Nuncupatory questions. Any other writer with Jack Vance’s bibliography (well over fifty novels), and his years of activity, would be a legend in the [...]
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By Guest Poster on February 18, 2009
Distant Suns: Caveat Oriens Chen. To stand still. To gallop at full speed. Wan. A small mouth. Some say a large mouth. Ch’he. Devoid of intelligence, deficiency of wit, silly, idiotic. Also used for borrowing and returning books. Pee. A [...]
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By Kim on February 8, 2009
The SFnal post of the year (so far) has to be Shannan Palma’s “How to know if you’re reading a bad book” at the Feminist SF Blog. Well worth reading! A couple of related posts – buying into the whole [...]
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By Guest Poster on January 10, 2009
A while back, I wrote a series of posts on speculative fiction – Distant Suns. Commenter patrickg liked the posts and wanted to try his own hand at one. So I’m happy to host the first of his continuation of [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on November 15, 2008
As those folks who are my friends on Facebook are no doubt aware, I successfully defended my PhD thesis at my final seminar on Thursday in the Humanities Program at QUT. That’s a milestone I’m really happy to have reached, [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on August 19, 2008
One of the rather egregious questions on last week’s Q&A asked the panel to comment on why there was no contemporary political fiction of the stature of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s. As with a lot of the queries posed on Q&A, it’s [...]
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