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[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
- Beyond the Beyond links to an interview with Darran Anderson, a writer of cartographic fiction.
- Centauri Dreams notes that 2028 will be a time when microlensing can b used to study the area of Alpha Centauri A.
- The Crux engages with the question of whether or not an astronaut's corpse could seed life on another planet.
- The Dragon's Gaze links to a ( Read more... )
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[META] Blogroll Expansion
It's that time again!
- Clifford, fellow graduate of the 2003-2004 Master's English class at Queen's University, blogs at Love and Fiction, where he promotes his fiction writing and does a non-trivial amount of essay-writing himself. This essay exploring the reasons why people devote large amounts of time to their chosen specialties (see Malcolm ( Read more... )
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[LINK] "Reality hunger"
I like this Castrovalva post about the contradictions of realism in fiction and writing.
[I]t can often be the case that the more a writer adheres to autobiography, the more fantastical the narration becomes. Witness Huysmans and DeQuincey as obvious exmaples. One might also note that the division Shields draws between etoliated artifice and the ( Read more... ) -
[LINK] Some Saturday links
- 1948's bloggers have chosen to merge into another group blog, The Invisible College.
- Claus Vistesen takes a look at how post-Communist central Europe may get hammered by global and local credit crunches.
- Richard at Castrovalva takes on the new sub-genre of fictive biography and what it might say about an ailing realist novel./li>
- Aziz Poonawalla ( Read more... )
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[REVIEW] Gilles Tréhin, Urville
Urville is the creation of Gilles Tréhin, a Belgian-born autistic savant who created the fictional city of Urville from the mid-1980s on, starting with Lego and proceeding onto increasingly detailed sketches. Tréhin's Urville is located in "Provence insulaire," a fictional archipelago located off the Provençal coast near Cannes that enjoyed a ( Read more... ) -
[LINK] Friday Links Roundup
- Richard at 1948 takes a look at Sarkozy's recent successful entente with Libya, which may both indicate the relative weakness of Germany and French interest in Sarkozy's Mediterranean Union project.
- angel80 has an series of stunning photo posts ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) produced during a vacation in the area of Lake Mungo in what I think counts as the Australian ( Read more... )
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[LINK] "It can't happen here"
Over at Reason,, David Weigel's "It Can't Happen Here" examines the burgeoning popularity of Islam-conquers-the-world technothrillers. Weigel judges them, as he should, to be profoundly silly. -
[BRIEF NOTE] A note on "Singing My Sister Down"
nhw raised the question of whether Margo Lanagan's wonderfully and horribly compelling short story "Singing My Sister Down" is a work of speculative fiction. Myself, I think that it is on the pattern of Shirley Jackson, in her The Haunting of House Hill or better yet "The Lottery". The speculative elements don't lie in the setting so much as they do ( Read more... ) -
[REVIEW] Margo Lanagan, "Singing My Sister Down"
I've just read Australian writer Margo Lanagan's "Singing My Sister Down", from the collection Black Juice, and the tears are still in my eyes. My God but that Lanagan can write. -
[BRIEF NOTE] The Problem With Mimesis
Writing in his regular column in fab, Brad Fraser announces ("No more dead fags, please") his profound unhappiness with the conclusion of Brokeback Mountain.
I am so tired of dead faggots. They’ve been a staple of literature and drama for so long, I’m surprised they’re not outlawed. In humankind’s first recorded saga, Gilgamesh loved the only man ( Read more... )