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January 16, 2013
Visionary Fiction description/discussion …
Wonderful discussion of genres at the VFA blog Setting the Stage: Visionary & Metaphysical Fiction started by Karen M. Rider, with excellent comments.
Wonderful discussion of genres at the VFA blog Setting th...
Wonderful discussion of genres at the VFA blog Setting the Stage: Visionary & Metaphysical Fiction started by Karen M. Rider, with excellent comments.
January 12, 2013
Of Dragonflies and Pepper Pods
If you’re serious as a writer (or sculptor, painter, composer, fishing-fly maker, or anything else that involves creative work), you’ve surely gotten some lesson—a sort of epiphany, even—that had a lasting impact on your work. I was just re-reading Harold G. Henderson’s classic book An Introduction to Haiku and ran into this anecdotal gem about [...]
December 21, 2012
Happy New B’ak’tun!
It’s New B’ak’tun Day! And no, it doesn’t appear that the world is coming to an end, nor have their been any verifiable reports of extraterrestrials showing up. For further details about such rather widespread misapprehensions, check out our post of October 18. Things seem to be shaping up much as Lydia Rosenstrom anticipated in [...]
December 20, 2012
Good review, good read …
An Uncustomary Book Review of Mayan Interface, and a good read in itself!
An Uncustomary Book Review of Mayan Interface, and a good...
An Uncustomary Book Review of Mayan Interface, and a good read in itself!
December 14, 2012
Nice review of Mayan Interface on the Fiction for a New A...
Nice review of Mayan Interface on the Fiction for a New Age. Blogger PJ Swanwick asks: “What role should fiction play in fostering spiritual/metaphysical growth?”
December 10, 2012
Of Back-of-the-Book Indexes and Other Cultural Catastrophes
Someone recently referred to Wikipedia as the “end of scholarship.” I can’t remember who said it, and I can’t turn it up on Google or even on Wikipedia itself, which I guess means it might as well never have been said. But I’m sure I read it somewhere. And I’m not surprised at the sentiment. [...]
December 3, 2012
Remember Llixgrijb, the story that got away? Llixgrijb’s ...
Remember Llixgrijb, the story that got away? Llixgrijb’s the entity we thought we’d made up, but who wandered off and lurks about the internet even now. That entity’s very first appearance in our reality was in the December 1987 newsletter, our homegrown publication that preceded the book. You can read it at the newsletter blogspot.
December 2, 2012
Mayan Interface – Free on Kindle – Dec 6-Dec 10!
Mayan Interface – Free on Kindle – Dec 6-Dec 10!
