Posts Tagged ‘will shetterly’

“Man is a substance clad in shadows”

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Many things these days contribute to my lack of sleep–social activity, parent scheduling, social evenings in different cities, my stubborn refusal to go to sleep when I should, time spent playing with the world through this Internet thing, and–of course–things I start to read when I should go to bed that I just-can’t-put-down.
Sometimes you can [...]

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Shadow Unit & Cool Web Tools

Friday, June 27th, 2008

You may recall that I’ve strongly encouraged people reading this to check out the Shadow Unit project on several previous occasions.
Well, the first “season” of Shadow Unit has been over for a while now, I want to take a few minutes to re-encourage you to check it out. The work got stronger throughout the season–in [...]

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Gospel Of The Knife

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Another thing that happened while I was underwater at work was the release of Will Shetterly’s new book The Gospel Of The Knife.
It looks like this:

(I hope that the cover catches some of the many Dan Brown readers, exposing them to some good writing and also making Will a ton of money.)
The book is a [...]

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A Tuesday bookish miscellany

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

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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SF Authors (and editors) saying more smart things…

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

We’ll grab a couple of them today:
Will Shetterly talking about Mormon underwear:
Here’s one way to tell a faith from a racket: If it makes you think you’re better than everyone else, it’s a racket, not a faith.
I kind of love that. It’s the answer to all the “One True Religion” and “Chose People of X” [...]

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