wetasphalt.com - 2/4/2009
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This is part 4 of an email conversation I had with Matt Cheney about the state of Speculative Fiction. Read part 1 and part 2 and part 3 . Some things discussed: the object-subject relationship, zombie movies, the evaluation of art, Star Trek as godawful crap vs. fun godawful crap
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afterburnsf.com - 2/2/2009
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Twilight on Phobos - Michael Anthony Email this
to a friend! Diego fingered a pill into his
mouth and sat on his trembling hands. If there had been a flight attendant aboard they might have mistaken his affliction with nervousness and offered him some ...
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February 4, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker —
... Writing Book Proposals. Vote at the Dead of Night Awards. Matt Staggs interviews James Morrow. In honor of Black History Month, Lethe Press is selling the eBook of Sea, Swallow Me and Other Stories for only $3.25! Victoria Blake gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Brian Evenson's Last Days. Catherynne M. Valente on Programming Languages Are To Literary Schools As... Speculative Fiction in Conversation Part 4 with Eric Rosenfield and Matt Cheney. ...
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Bibliophile Stalker —
"But for some reason when it comes to literary texts, the expectation is different: your fun is supposed to be my fun, and that fun should be easy fun. How dull the world would be if that were true!" - Matt Cheney
The Conversation, Part IV: Zombie Movies, Star Trek, & Proust
The Mumpsimus —
Not much content hereabouts lately, because my attentions have been given to other things and my time taken up by various projects, but my conversation with Eric Rosenfield continues on apace, and in this installment I reveal a certain fondness for zombie movies and an inability to appreciate either Proust or Star Trek.
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