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2010: Anno Iron Man (For Me, Anyway)
In this upcoming World Cup year, I have (in addition to a bunch of other stuff including D&D and Transformers novels, as well as original stories) three Iron Man projects coming out. First comes Iron Man: Virus, coming at the end of January: In the clear blue skies above Long Island, two airplanes collide. Tony…
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Soccer Players and Totalitarianism
For a while I was convinced that the story of Joe Gaetjens, who scored the only goal in the US’ famous 1-0 victory over England at the 1950 World Cup and then later died at the hands of Papa Doc Duvalier and/or the Tonton Macoutes, was just about the most interesting soccer biography around. But…
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Batman: Inferno Audiobook
I haven’t listened to the whole thing yet, but this audio version of Batman: Inferno is a blast so far. Makes the commute fly by; if you don’t believe me, listen to a sample. (Also kind of makes me want to write other Batman stuff, especially if I get to play with the Joker again…)
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Cormac McCarthy’s Understanding of Short Fiction Is Kind of Different Than Mine
In this conversation with the Wall Street Journal (mostly about the upcoming movie based on his novel The Road*), Cormac McCarthy says, “I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.” I don’t know about you, but I read that…
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Tie-In Fiction, Orphaned Books, Sick Prisoners, Etc.
Over at Jeff VanderMeer’s Ecstatic Days, there was an interesting conversation about genre and tie-in fiction. As someone who has written quite a bit of both, I found the points raised both familiar and interesting all over again. Here’s one, about the number of prominent writers of original stuff who have also worked in tie-ins:…
Crooked House Fictions 