That’s Jack Vance over there. I’m a fan.
I’m enough of a fan that I wanted to sign up for the Vance Integral Edition when they were taking subscriptions. It played into my two compulsions: collecting all the good writing, and collecting fine or rare editions of the good writing. At that time I didn’t have [...]
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“It has to be Guinness–dark, black and rich. It’s a scientifically proven fact, you know, that Guinness is forty-five percent fortitude.”
–Hal Duncan
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Speaking of Scotsmen, let me say that as a general rule I am quite a fan of Hal Duncan’s blog–especially those gigantic blog entries where he intellectually swashbuckles his way through certain philosophical issues with verve and panache, using academic jargon like Mrs. Parker used wit.
In particular, I have been intending for a while now [...]
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I was a bit too enervated to worry about blogging, or reading blogs, last night, so I woke this morning to find the entire Internet plastered with the news that Madeleine L’Engle had died. (See link list below).
I know exactly when I read my first L’Engle book: it was A Wrinkle In Time, in the [...]
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If you’ve read either his debut novel Elantris, or his sophomore effort Mistborn, you will definitely be interested in Brandon Sanderson’s website, since it includes detailed annotations for both books, along with a blog and lots of other stuff including info and exceprts from forthcoming works.
Here’s a link to a recent essay on why [...]
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I was quite pleased to see this:
July 2007
Territory by Emma Bull (new hardcover)
On PNH’s list of stuff he (and Teresa) have edited.
I’ve been patiently waiting for Emma’s next book since 1997 (or 1994, if you want to get picky about the possessive).
It was harder to be patient after I heard her read from [...]
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