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Monday, March 24, 2025

Mars in 1995?

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.   Here's a curiosity--the cover story of the June 11, 1981 issue of Analog .  It wasn't fiction. "Mars in 1995!" by Bob...
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Monday, March 10, 2025

John O'Hara . . . A Scandalously Neglected Master of the Short Story

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 . Recently, I picked up a copy of Collected Stories of John O'Hara , selected and edited by Frank MacShane, and what a good decision t...
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Friday, February 28, 2025

Michael Swanwick's Ten Rules For New Writers

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. Michael Swanwick's Ten Rules for New Writers 1. Read everything. Read voraciously. Read so much that people who love you are concerned...
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Sunday, January 26, 2025

Venice--and Why All the World Loves It

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 . Opus 40 in Saugerties, New York, is an ancestral work of landscape art. Sculptor Harvey Fite bought a played-out slate mine in 1938 and,...
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Thursday, January 2, 2025

CROWS AND SILENCES by Lucius Shepard

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.     Look what came in the mail! Crows and Silences is a collection of four novellas by Lucius Shepard with an int...
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Tuesday, December 31, 2024

E-Book Sales! Two of Them! Now Through January 3 Only!

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 . As happens with some frequency, Open Road Media is having an e-book sale. Actually, two of them. As clipped from the email they sent me: ...
Monday, December 30, 2024

A Random Memory and a Small Observation

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 . Here's a random memory: Back in the seventies, there was an underground comix series called Insect Fear  which basically tried to out...
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