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What is a poem? Or “How to Think about Writing and Reading Poetry”

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“What is a Poem” was Originally published in the Poet’s Market by Writer’s Digest Books under the title “Schematic for Sculpting Language.” As a young man, I complained I didn’t get poetry. The poetry world seemed broken in two: those who rhymed and those who didn’t. Rhymers chose their path either out of too much ignorance (“all I […]

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Does George R. R. Martin write grimdark?

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I have often said though I cannot directly recommend George R.R. Martin���s��Song of Ice and Fire, if I discover you���ve read it, I���m happy to talk about it at length. Similarly, I personally will never watch the TV show��Game of Thrones because I���m painfully aware, after how I spent my late teens, there are simply […]

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Schaubert’s Laws of Fantasy Religions

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I’ve thought about religions in fantasy, scifi, and speculative fiction more and more over the past year. It has started to bug me that I’m not finding a more formalized piece on fantasy religions out there — religions in fantasy and science fiction worlds. As is often the rule in all creative acts, when you […]

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LIVE NOW with John Wiswell, Nebula Award Winner

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John Wiswell is an American science fiction and fantasy author whose short fiction has won the Locus and Nebula Awards and been a finalist for the Hugo, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy Awards. His debut fantasy novel, Someone You Can Build a Nest In, was released in April 2024 by DAW Books and Quercus. Wiswell���s […]

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Our Violent Shadow of Tolkien

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Photo by Reiseuhu on Unsplash Once upon a time there was a fantastical antediluvian epic about a world with three ages: an age of angels and their pre-edenic fall, an age of a sort of utopian garden and the fall of man, and the struggling of man before the coming of a flood or a […]

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If you replied to these emails… + Project Progress + Worbemusties + ICYMI Brooklyn Performance

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Urgent: if since November you have replied to one of these newsletters via email, due to Substack’s default setting that only “paying subscribers” could reply, I did not receive your email. I’ve turned this default Substack feature off so everyone can respond to my emails. Test it out and reply to this right now! Hello […]

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Howard Tayler & Sandra Tayler Interview

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I met Howard Tayler and Sandra Tayler at GenCon. I got the impression of lovely, joyful, and hilarious folks. There I asked them to do an interview about their creative relationship. We started right after GenCon and did this thing asynchronously through the fall up until shortly after Dragonsteel Nexus. We have many great interviews […]

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A Brief History of Science Fiction from Antiquity to 2024

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Share Remember: it���s going to be a packed house at the Of Gods and Globes III reading on Tuesday night, with a special surprise famous guest. RSVP for the NYC reading here or to invite all of your tri-state area friends. The old Theodore Sturgeon adage goes: A science fiction story is a story built […]

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The Nouvelle Théologie of C.S. Lewis

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Photo by Chris Bair on Unsplash Most come here first for the science fiction and weird anecdotes while others come here for my occasional prophetic frothing against ideologies that, for instance, support Nazis. Though I promise to get to the Nazis, I want to lead-in with what scandalizes most Evangelicals about their scifi and fantasy […]

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The Nouvelle Th��ologie of C.S. Lewis

Lancelot Schaubert over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::

Photo by Chris Bair on Unsplash Most come here first for the science fiction and weird anecdotes while others come here for my occasional prophetic frothing against ideologies that, for instance, support Nazis. Though I promise to get to the Nazis, I want to lead-in with what scandalizes most Evangelicals about their scifi and fantasy […]

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