Glorifying Meta-textualism
fjm has two posts about meta-textual stories and stories which glorify terrorism.
One of the story's mentioned in the former thread is hal_duncan's 'The Disappearance of James H'. It sprung to my mind too and I wrote about it here. For me this is the best piece of fiction Duncan has done. However his non-fiction continues to be highly readable, most recently in the comments here.
Speaking of short stories, one of my favourite short story writers, Dominic Green, was nominated for the Hugo. His story, 'The Clockwork Atom Bomb', is available from the Interzone website. (He didn't win, obviously.)
Elsewhere Alfred Hickling gives a typically sophisticated reading of the new edition of Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed. Still it could have been worse, I suppose; could have been Eric Brown.
One of the story's mentioned in the former thread is hal_duncan's 'The Disappearance of James H'. It sprung to my mind too and I wrote about it here. For me this is the best piece of fiction Duncan has done. However his non-fiction continues to be highly readable, most recently in the comments here.
Speaking of short stories, one of my favourite short story writers, Dominic Green, was nominated for the Hugo. His story, 'The Clockwork Atom Bomb', is available from the Interzone website. (He didn't win, obviously.)
Elsewhere Alfred Hickling gives a typically sophisticated reading of the new edition of Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed. Still it could have been worse, I suppose; could have been Eric Brown.