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I haven’t read Wintersmith. Making a note to fix that. I’m two-thirds through Shadows Upon Time, and it is being a superb conclusion...

My first DNF in a few months, The Invaders: How Early Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction, by Pat Shipman. I read one...

We pause here to wave at Mr. Calvin Morris, the inexplicable cowboy in Dracula.

I finished Diamond's Josephine Baker's Secret War. While I knew about Baker's activities as an Allied spy in WW2, I didn't know the...

I have in my head that there are genres of setting and genres of story. Hartwell's point, as you describe it, seems like a different way...

I did a creative writing major in college and my thesis was a collection of fantasy short stories. Small school with a big ego about its...

There’s good and bad popcorn, and cotton candy, whipped Jello, whatever. Very nearly anything can be done well or badly, and writing...

Thank you, Bruce, I’ll try and keep it short. Let’s start with Joe Dredd, whose creator always said that he “was the warning, not the...

I basically gave up on A Libertarian Walks Into A Bear. I just couldn't get into it. Read Lies Weeping instead, by Glen Cook. Am now...

Once you have time travel that isn't blocked off in some fashion, that sort of thing in kind is intrinsic to the beast.

Oh yes. It’s one of the great tips for copyediting. (Another is to start at the bottom of the page and go up line by line. You can use a...

I never heard of her tbh, but what you wrote in this thread made me interested. Do you have a recommendation for someone who is new to...

I had no idea there was a new Black Company book. It has kind of thrown me. I read the first 3 and silver spike multiple times in the...

The vacation had the days kinda packed full of doing things (and those things were why I was on the vacation). I had a reasonable sense...

But what about week two?