"You had a father in mines who's gone this day from thee."

Apr 23, 2012 19:56

Just something shortish, and I'll post something more interesting tomorrow:

1) I've been busy writing "A Mountain Walked" for the weird western anthology, which, considering it consists of excerpts from a journal written by a paleontologist in the Wyoming territories in 1879, well it's not an easy piece. But I wrote 1,717 words yesterday, and ( Read more... )

paleontology, ramsey, weird fiction, ligotti, westerns, fringe, tolkien, order, birds, cthulhu, housekeeping

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Re: "A Mountain Walked" papersteven April 24 2012, 00:57:19 UTC
This story sounds very cool, and I look forward to reading it.

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Cyberpunk, splatterpunk... ext_1150479 April 24 2012, 04:42:31 UTC
I remember something somewhere long ago that used the term 'cowpunk' to describe Lansdale's stories. I'm glad that didn't stick.

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aarongp April 24 2012, 07:17:11 UTC
... writing "A Mountain Walked" for the weird western anthology, which, considering it consists of excerpts from a journal written by a paleontologist in the Wyoming territories in 1879 ...
This story just keeps sounding better and better.

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ex_kaz_maho April 24 2012, 12:06:07 UTC
Don't know if you heard this, but here's a link to my LCS's podcast where they review Alabaster: Wolves #1:

http://www.orbitalcomics.com/blog/2012/04/21/episode-62/

Start just before 13:00 to make sure you get the start. There is one comment by one of the guys that will probably make you grind your teeth, but otherwise it's a great review and one of the guys in particular makes some interesting points.

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xarx April 24 2012, 18:06:38 UTC
I've been playing Lord of the Rings War in the North every night before bed. I'm going to assume the story there about talking eagles and giant spiders kidnapping Radagast is on par with anything Tolkien actually wrote.

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