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Unsettling Futures - Brandon Sanderson, fame, and the failure of the Long Tail
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Genre writing, show don't tell, and what actually sells
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The Spear Cuts Through Water is the best overlooked book of the last year
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Embracing our Garbage Literary Influences
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I learned everything I need to know about fantasy from a sci-fi novel
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Ninja Turtles, Sweet Valley High, and why AI isn't (yet) a threat to writers
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Embracing our Garbage Literary Influences
All the crap that made us the sci-fi fans, readers, and writers that we are
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Genre writing, show don't tell, and what actually sells
Is SFF using fewer tools than contemporary lit? Yes. The answer is yes.
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RIP Cyberpunk: 1977-1994
Cyberpunk is dead. What replaced it?
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The Spear Cuts Through Water is the best overlooked book of the last year
It's got fans. Not in its publisher's promotions department, however.
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Moonstruck is the greatest secret werewolf movie of all time
You're seeing this too, right?
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Unsettling Futures – FICTION – All the Turns of the Earth
This story first appeared in Analog Science Fiction & Fact back in 2020, and I honestly thought I’d posted it through the ol’ newsletter ages ago, but…
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The emotional distance of magic systems
Or, why I will never be Brandon Sanderson
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