Showing posts with label Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fiction. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Hoorah for the filibusters

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  "Show, don't tell," is the advice heard by many would-be fiction writers. That advice often works for contemporary fiction. ...
Thursday, February 06, 2014

Talking Head

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Andrew’s Brain E. L Doctorow Fiction 200 pages New York. Random House. 2014 Who is Andrew? In the beginning, the narrator calls hi...
Thursday, May 23, 2013

A magical story collection

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Strange News from Another Star Hermann Hesse (Denver Lindley translator) Fiction 99 pages Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972 Although sev...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Amazon – It’s a jungle out there

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The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury Fiction 256 pages Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition. 2012 Out of curiosity, I looked up Ra...
Saturday, February 16, 2013

Strange Bedfellows

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Bedbugs (Can you see them?) L. A. Taylor Fiction 214 pages CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012 The Kindle version of thi...
Sunday, February 03, 2013

Instant Karma

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The Tea Goddess Dekker Dreyer Fiction 156 pages Fringe Majority LLC. 2010 Kai and Ceire died before revealing their secret. A generati...
Sunday, December 09, 2012

Killing with the Edge of the Moon

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Killing with the Edge of the Moon A. A. Attanasio Fiction 160 pages Prime Books. 2006 Would you go all the way to Hell just to get a da...
Tuesday, June 05, 2012

The Arabian Nights – Gathered, Privately Printed, and Out of Print

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While not all of us are familiar with the titles, “The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment” or “One Thousand and One Nights”, most of us have hear...
Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Demons Hide Their Faces

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Demons Hide Their Faces A. A. Attanasio Fiction 183 pages (Kindle) 2011 This collection of short fiction for Kindle contains s...
Saturday, November 21, 2009

Out of context party quiz question

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24. All Tomorrow's Parties is A. A song by the Velvet Underground B. A novel by William Gibson C. A 2003 Chinese science fiction...