Category Archives: Writers

Very Very Short Stories

Posted on Monday, May 12, 2008 by Keith

Each of them is 101 words long. You can do very cool stuff with brevity. Just ask Jorge Luis Borges.

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Weeping On Saturn to Last All Century

Posted on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 by Keith

British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke has died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90.

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Strike!

Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 by Keith

If you’re wondering what this whole WGA writer’s strike thing is all about, but only have enough time to go one place to get the low down, you could do worse than stopping by John Roger’s place over at Kung … Continue reading →

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Osama The Gun

Posted on Friday, October 5, 2007 by Keith

Norman Spinrad, author of the classic proto-cyberpunk novel, Bug Jack Barron has a new book but you can only read the first third of it online. Apparently, no publisher wants to get behind Osama The Gun. The author explains that he fears … Continue reading →

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And Dandylion Wine is Really About Prohibition

Posted on Monday, June 4, 2007 by Keith

So, Ray Bradbury now says that his famous anti-censorship novel, Fahrenheit 451 isn’t actually about censorship, but how TV rots your brains and pop-culture is the torch lit under literature’s legacy. Or some such nonsense. Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953, … Continue reading →

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So It Goes

Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2007 by Keith

Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007: “He was the kind of writer who made people – young people, especially – want to write,” added Jonathan Safran Foer, the 30-year-old author of “Everything is Illuminated.” “He wrote the kinds of books you pass around.” … Continue reading →

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You’re Asuming He Was Real To Begin With

Posted on Wednesday, March 7, 2007 by Keith

Jean Baudrillard, 1930-2007: PARIS: Jean Baudrillard, a French philosopher and social theorist known for his provocative commentaries on consumerism, excess and what he said was the disappearance of reality, died Tuesday, his publishing house said. He was 77. [...] Baudrillard, … Continue reading →

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Gettin’ Good Again

Posted on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 by Keith

Sunday’s Episode of BSG wasn’t nearly as bad as I had expected and even had a surprise or two that tied it into the main plot. No surprise that it was written by Jane Espenson, of Buffy/Angel credit. I was … Continue reading →

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Remembering RAW

Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 by Keith

Reason Magazine has a nice obituary for Robert Anton Wilson: Given his enormous influence on pop culture, from Lost to Laura Croft, you might have expected Wilson’s death to get more attention in the mainstream press. But while there were … Continue reading →

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If There’s Anything Out There, He’ll Bring It Back

Posted on Thursday, January 11, 2007 by Keith

Robert Anton Wilson, January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007. I wish I had met him, and had a chance to tell him how much his writing has been a major influence on my own, and my life in general. … Continue reading →

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