Con-Versations
“If you haven’t heard of a literary convention, as a fan, you are missing out on something that can change the way you look at reading...
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Dec 31, 2022
Dressing to Impress
“No costume is no costume.” Costuming Rules WorldCon 42, 1984 Dressing up like a favorite character from a favorite novel, movie,...
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Dec 30, 2022
Insert One Quarter
“Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada. Are you...
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Dec 29, 2022
The Art of the Story
“Never judge a cover by its book.” The Clarke/Duke Project Stanley Clarke & George Duke Book covers have a special place for me. They are...
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Dec 28, 2022
From Wet Ink to Flickering Light
“You don't live in the real world... You're like me. You live inside this illusion.”–Art3mis Ready Player One Ernest Kline Several days...
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Dec 27, 2022
Playing Dice with the Universe
“Never tell me the odds!” Han Solo The Empire Strikes Back Board games have a history stretching back to Senet, a game dating from around...
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Dec 26, 2022
The Magical Sounds of the Stars
“Drummer beat, and piper blow Harper strike, and soldier go” Anne McCaffery Dragonsong Music. A not-so-simple collection of sounds that...
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Dec 25, 2022
Christmas Among the Stars (Speculative Christmases Part II)
“This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery? If the guy exists why doesn't he ever...
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Dec 24, 2022
Fantastic Christmases (Speculative Christmases Part I)
“…There’ll be scary ghost stories and the tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago.” “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”...
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Dec 23, 2022
From the Silver Screen to Between the Covers
“I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated.” Francis Ford Coppola Speculative fiction books have been a...
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Dec 22, 2022
Fantastic Science Fiction or Science Fiction Fantasy?
“Any technology, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic.” “Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination” Arthur C....
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Dec 21, 2022
Where is the Genre’s Boundary?
“We are only constrained by the boundaries of our imagination” David Moffett Humans are storytellers. It’s one of the oldest and most...
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Dec 19, 2022
The Twelve Days of Speculative Fiction
January 2nd is celebrated as Science Fiction Day. It shares a date with the birthday of Isaac Asimov, who would have been 103 in 2023....
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