Author: Alex Irvine
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Influences Bubble Up: The Silver Chair and Karga Kul
So last year when I was writing The Seal of Karga Kul, I came up with this swell scene involving a collapsed bridge — Iban Ja’s Bridge — magically held together, spanning a gorge thousands of feet deep and ending in a highland road that cut through a forest and quickly up into broken territory…
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When Nixon Went After PBS…
…Mr. Rogers was there to make the case for public broadcasting. Who will be Mr. Rogers for us now? (I mean that seriously.)
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Boskone
Haven’t been in at least five or six years, but I’m going to zoom down to Boston tomorrow and catch up with some old friends at Boskone. See you there…
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‘Supposed’ Being the Key Word
Some interesting words from Albert Einstein, encountered in the course of research: “In our time the military mentality . . . leads, by necessity, to preventive war. The general insecurity that goes hand in hand with this results in the sacrifice of the citizen’s civil rights to the supposed welfare of the state.” That’s from…
Crooked House Fictions 