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Friday 3:00 p.m. Vaughan BIBLIOFANTASIES
Many classics of the fantasy and supernatural revolve around mysterious, exotic, arcane, or potentially threatening books or collections of books. The panel will go beyond the Necronomicon to discuss examples, and the enduring popularity ( Read more... )

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I’ll be at World Fantasy in Toronto this weekend. I’m on a panel Friday at 3 PM about the trope of the mysterious/eldritch tome in fantasy and horror, “Bibliofantasies” (with other clever people from the Bibliotheca Fantastica anthology), for which I have been idly developing ( Read more... )

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My reading of Benjamin Parzybok‘s excellent story from LCRW 21, “The Coder”, is live today at the Small Beer Press podcast. I worked hard and I’m quite proud of the result-every one of these readings I do, the audio quality and (I flatter myself) the delivery improve-so please ( Read more... )

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You know what this is going to be about.

Readercon is my favorite convention. It’s the one I’ve been to the most, the one where I am least scared of the rest of the attendees and feel least obligated to front. It’s the best-organized con I’ve ever been to. It has my favorite ( Read more... )

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I took a coach bus from Boston to Manchester, New Hampshire. I don’t normally take buses in this country-either I have a car or I ride the train. New England was once my home but is no longer; after only a year, I recognize its beauty as transient; I perceive it as a place ( Read more... )

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Back from Readercon, we return you to your regularly scheduled environmentalist ranting.

I was just reading Bill McKibben‘s new Rolling Stone article about how we all got bored of global warming in 2009 but it kept happening even though we stopped looking at it and now we’re ( Read more... )

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Sadly I can only be at Readercon this year for Thursday and Friday. I’m missing a lot of great stuff, including the Odyssey reading on Saturday afternoon at 2. And it looks like there won’t be a Homeless Moon chapbook this time around.

On the other hand, they’ve given me what ( Read more... )