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December 28, 2015
“The Dragons of Kraków” released
My short story “The Dragons of Kraków” was published today onPornokitsch.
What’s the story about? Well, it’s in the title.
December 26, 2015
Farewell to 2015
Winter solstice has passed by, marking a truly long and black night in the Yukon, allayed a by a glorious display of the northern lights a few days prior. Yes, it’s winter, it’s cold, and it’s snowing, which means there’s not much to do as December comes to a close other than reflect on the year that was.
As usual, I frame my year in books I read. Most notable were the three extent volumes in Scott Lynch’s Gentlemen Bastards series. I don’t know why it took me so long to get around to readin...
December 17, 2015
December 12, 2015
Four Mediocre Stories and a Very Good One
Tide of Shadows and Other Stories is a slim collection, just five stories in all, and all but one unpublished until now. For such a modest ebook release, it got a lot of attention in the corner of the internet I dwell in: for many years Aidan Moher ran the Hugo award-winning blog A Dribble of Ink. The substantial network of authors, podcasters, prominant reviewers and friends he built there gave this self-publishing venture a boost few others could dream of on a debut short story collection....
December 1, 2015
Love Hurts Released
Today saw the release ofLove Hurts, an anthology thatincludes my short story “Iron Roses” alongside others by Jeff Vandermeer, Aliette de Bodard and Karin Tidbeck.
November 14, 2015
Genre Fiction Commenting on Genre Fiction
Michael R. Underwood. The Shootout Solution: Genrenauts Episode 1. New York: Tor.com, 2015.
Advanced review copy provided by the author.
Genrenauts is a geek empowerment fantasy, and while the first episode plays with the Western genre, it’s rooted in references to science fiction and fantasy books, television shows and movies. This is one of the niches Mike Underwood has carved out for himself among many, thematically related to his Ree Reyes series and to Ernest Cline’s brand of 80s nostal...
October 31, 2015
Iatropexy Episode 6 – The Satanic Panic
I pop on over to Marie’s Iatropexy podcast to talk about the time in the 1980s/1990s when people in North America thought a Devil-worshipping cult was stealing children.
This was recorded before I bought a new microphone, and my old one was on its last dying legs. You can tell.
https://ia601504.us.archive.org/34/items/satanicpanic/satanicpanic.mp3Download the Podcast(right click and select “save as”)
October 30, 2015
Over at the Book Smugglers
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I write about StefanGrabiński, a Polish horror author from the early twentieth century.
October 25, 2015
Episode 26 – Get Urras back to Anarres
We egoize about Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1974 classic,The Dispossessed.
https://ia601502.us.archive.org/13/items/OLSP26Dispossessed/OLSP26_Dispossessed.mp3Download the Podcast(archive.org page)
Episode 10 – The Left Hand of Podcasts
Incidental Music:Danse Macabre – Big Hit 1Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
October 18, 2015
War in the Lands of Midnight
I spent more time as a teenager than I’d care to admit tracking down DOS games based on Tolkien’s work (many released before I was born), including Mike Singleton’s attractive-looking-but-not-particularly-good War in Middle Earth (1988). The failure of that game seems odd now, since a couple of years earlier the same guy put together perhaps the best “Tolkien with the serial numbers filed off” game of all time, the justly famous Lords of Midnight.
I decided to give Lords of Midnight a whirl a...
