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Your Day in Genre Taxonomy and Premature Elegy
N.K. Jemisin, guest-blogging over at VanderMeer’s Ecstatic Days, suggests a binary division within urban fantasy. (My .02, given in short form in the comments, is that both of her suggested subspecies de-emphasize the essential nature of the mode, which is the re-creation of the experience of the urban as something fantastical in nature. I wrote…
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Mighty Cool Dash Shaw Web Series
Episode 1 of The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century AD: http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/271548326
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Maybe the Dumbest Thing an Agent Said This Week
From Galleycat: “In Virginia Woolf’s day, you just sent in your manuscript and it was published, no questions asked.” Riiiiiight. This insight coming to you from the literary historian who gave us Alec Baldwin’s A Promise to Ourselves.
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Free Story
Good people of the internet, you can read my story (novelette, if you want to get technical) “Wizard’s Six” at the F&SF web site. Its younger sibling “Dragon’s Teeth” appeared in the December 2009 issue of that illustrious magazine and is shortly to reappear in a couple of best-of-2009 anthologies… At the bottom of each…