Jon Cronshaw's Blog, page 69
April 17, 2018
Welcome!
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 598
Short story: Four Wishes by Gary Alexander, from Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, November 2012. Recommended.
Poem: The Queen’s School for Girls by Ciro Faienza, from Strange Horizons, April 2018. Recommended.
Essay: Are they Real or Fictional? listened to on the Skeptoid podcast, from April 2018. Recommended.
April 16, 2018
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 597
Short story: Five Fruits I Ate in the Sandar Land by Michael Haynes, from Beneath Ceaseless Skies, August 2014. Recommended.
Poem: Thai Silk by Alexander Theroux, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from April 2018. Highly Recommended.
Essay: On Terry Pratchett by Inua Ellams, listened to on the BBC’s The Essay podcast, from April 2018. Highly Recommended.
April 15, 2018
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 596
Short story: The Black Veil by M. Bennardo, from Beneath Ceaseless Skies, October 2013. Recommended.
Poem: Dear One Absent this Long While by Lisa Olstein, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast.
Essay: China and the Retreat of Liberal Values by John Gray, listened to on the BBC’s A Point of View podcast, from April 2018. Recommended.
Jon’s Author Diary – 028 – April 15, 2018
Jon completed his edits of Blind Gambit and has sent the manuscript off to his beta-readers and is starting to pull things together for the book’s launch on May 10.
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April 14, 2018
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 595
Short story: Melioration by E. Saxey, from Lightspeed magazine, June 2015. Recommended.
Poem: On Reflection by Randall Horton, listened to on the PoetryNow podcast, from April 2018. Recommended.
Essay: Modern Day Empires by John Gray, listened to on the BBC’s A Point of View podcast, from March 2018. Recommended.
April 13, 2018
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 594
Short story: Medical Clinic at the Interplnetary Relay Station | Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0 by Caroline M. Yoachim, from Lightspeed magazine, March 2016. Highly Recommended.
Poem: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from April 2018. Recommended.
Essay: A Glitch in the Matrix by David Fuller. Recommended.
April 12, 2018
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 593
Short story: The Universe, Sung in Stars by Kat Howard, from Lightspeed magazine, April 2015. Highly Recommended.
Poem: Invictus by William Ernest Henley, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from April 2018. Recommended.
Essay: 10 Great Science Hoaxes, listened to on the Skeptoid podcast, from April 2018. Recommended.
April 11, 2018
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 592
Short story: God Decay by Rich Larson, from Clarkesworld magazine, April 2018. Highly Recommended.
Poem: Prelude by A. E. Stallings, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from April 2018. Recommended.
Essay: Maps of Meaning 12: The Divinity of the Individual by Jordan B. Peterson. Highly Recommended.
April 10, 2018
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 591
Short story: A Death by Stephen King, from The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. Recommended.
Poem: The Bone Church by Stephen King, from the Bazaar of Bad Dreams. Highly Recommended.
Essay: Maps of Meaning 1: The Flood and the Tower by Jordan B. Peterson. Highly Recommended.