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more about #fiction dumanue: Even though I love Gibson's writing, the whole concept of this article is weird to me... If you want to write, just sit down and write, fame doesn't ... more » Kurls: So basically, if you write a lot most of it will be crap but eventually you will write something good? Seems to be the best way to learn to write any... more » Chip Overclock: I once heard Spider Robinson say something similar; he threw a magazine or anthology down in disgust saying "I can do better than that!", then proceed... more » HerrIssyvoo: This is probably only tangentially related, but the attempt to come up with a broad umbrella term that includes several different genres that feel rel... more » sixfootgnome: This quote reminds me of a discussion from almost a month ago on the role of surprise in fiction. Most of the community seemed to be of the opinion t... more » Magicant: I had some strong opinions about speculative fiction, but they were nothing but my own fantasies and conjecture. more » Pneumatic Man: How about this set of genres: Sci-Fi: fiction and screenwriting adhering to a set of literary tropes that describe worlds improbable or impossible i... more » MonkeyT: They came up with the term "Speculative Fiction" because "Magic Realism" made people snort milk out their nose. more » JulietBinky: In the end, it may not matter when books like Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters are shelved as new non-fiction: http://irreference.com/sea-monste... more » LeopoldNestor: To take the argument further just call it "fiction". Then you are not sure whether there are unreal elements or not. Or, heck, just "prose". Then... more » Jeb_Hoge: Speculative fiction is a license for an author to take any public figure/personality/celebrity that he wants and make that person as horrid or as wond... more » burlybax: Spec-Fi huh? He brings up an interesting point, our expectations can really dictate the effect of a story. We see this with movies, and TV, when we ... more » Grey_Area: Top-notch work as always Mr. Glenn. I may read one of these venerable tomes on a dark and stormy night. more » corpore-metal: Ah yes, the Golden Age! Good times. Star Wars aside, I prefer my science fiction without nonsense like psychic powers. To me that's just magic and bel... more » Pope John Peeps II: oh Nietzsche, always good for a laugh! That's good, light, picnic reading that is. more » Balius: Internet communities love to wade through crap to find good material, and a sea of crap with real gems in it is what they dream about. I mean no offen... more » Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Oh joy. The good writers won't bother, b/c they're not getting paid, so it'll be just more fanfic and vanity press stuff without the paper. I suppose ... more » Moff: Totally! "What does the medium retrieve that had been obsolesced earlier?" and all that. more » kasviel: I never got into the whole digital reading thing, either. The screen hurts my eyes after a while (I'm the type who will read in the very least for an ... more » tetracycloide: this discription has quite the opposite effect on me. i have a lot more faith in a publishing label or new york editors eye for talent than i do for t... more » -
#brainharvest
Brain Harvest Will Knit You A Mustache, Let You Pick Their Brains
They sound like crazy zombies, but the new webzine Brain Harvest is trying to bring web-based flash fiction back from the dead. And you can help, while advancing your career (or your upper lip). More » -
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The Mad Mentalists of Pre-Golden-Age SF
Paving the way for Vulcans, Slan, Espers, Professor X and Babylon 5's Lyta Alexander, SF writers of the Pre-Golden Age (1904-33) dared to imagine how normal people might react if telepaths were discovered among us.
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The Super-est Supermen of Pre-Golden Age SF
Long before Alan Moore asked "Who will watch the Watchmen?" science fiction writers of the Pre-Golden Age (1904-33) worried whether supermen would rescue us ordinary mortals - or try to dominate us.
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Will E-Books Really Bring Back Dickensian Lit? I Sorta Hope So
Time Magazine's Lev Grossman has done what a swarm of New York PR people could not — he's made me sort of optimistic about the future of publishing. Sort of. More » -
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The Coolest Robots of Pre-Golden Age SF
During science fiction's Pre-Golden Age (1904-33), writers dreamed up mechanical and quasi-organic humanoids so compelling that they continue to haunt today's scifi, forcing us to ask what it means to be human.
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The Most Amazing Book Covers from Pre-Golden Age SF
Some of the most gorgeous, evocative, and strange science fiction art you've ever seen comes from the covers of novels written between 1904-33, in SF's "pre-Golden Age."
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The 10 Best Apocalypse Novels of Pre-Golden Age SF (1904-33)
With Wall-E director Andrew Stanton working on a film based on Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1917 novel A Princess of Mars, you need a crash course in books from this seminal era in science fiction.
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