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Apologies for those who couldn’t access this blog over the weekend - we had a domain name crisis, all sorted now.

Funnily enough, my thoughts have been very much on narrative endings, lately. How they work, how you drag all the threads together, how to make it satisfying, all that ( Read more... )

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Day 18 - Favorite beginning scene in a book

Soooo many good beginnings. Here are four favourites:

“The trouble started the day Howard came home from school to find the Goon sitting in the kitchen.” (Archer’s Goon, Diana Wynne Jones)

DWJ kicks arse at openings. In this one, the ( Read more... )

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Day 17 - Favorite story or collection of stories (short stories, novellas, novelettes, etc.)

I think I have to go for Kelly Link’s beautiful stories in the collections Stranger Things Happen and Magic for Beginners, though I have to give a shout out for the recent paperback ( Read more... )

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Day 09 - Best scene ever

Anna Louise Genoese writes beautifully about the type of scene she likes best. I have been able to come up with a handful of best beloved scenes or moments in books that come to mind, but I wasn’t sure if I could spot a pattern until I typed them all out.

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Day 04 - Your favorite book or series ever

There were a bunch of books/series that I would regularly reread every two years or so; I last read the lot of them when I was pregnant with Raeli, and suffering from what I called booksickness - that was, an inability to read anything new ( Read more... )

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Episode 8, our Special Feedback Episode is now available to download from the Galactic Suburbia site! You should be able to get it from iTunes shortly too.

News we discussed:

Lambda Awards LGBT SF/Fantasy/Horror winner:
Palimpsest, by Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam/Spectra Books)

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Dear Diana

I discovered you by accident. A snippet of a kids tv show that fascinated me from the start - and turned out to be Archer’s Goon. Then, quite by chance, I found that book and snapped it up, figuring I could at least find out the parts that I’d missed on TV.

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So was anyone else bizarrely entranced by the finale of Lost, despite having never watched it apart from occasional glimpses and one random episode after it was already universally judged to have jumped the shark?

Or was it just me?

I’ve always been remotely fascinated by Lost, ( Read more... )