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As a chaser to my “metacriticism” Blog Gate post: here’s Morgan Holmes on Blish/Atheling on Poul Anderson. I don’t think MH is really being fair to Blish, but then Blish wasn’t being fair to Anderson either. What comes around goes … Continue reading →

My Blog Gate post for the week has gone up: some thoughts on rereading Le Guin’s The Language of the Night. There’s some interesting discussion going on around Judith Berman’s latest Blog Gate post about the practical issues of women … Continue reading →

My home state is apparently planning to invade Iran. I’m not sure what the casus belli is–possibly something about lutefisk, one of the few things that can cause a Minnesotan to leap off the twelve steps of rational sobriety and … Continue reading →

I don’t know if it’s come up before here, but my novel Blood of Ambrose is due out from Pyr in April. Publishers Weekly gives it a review today that glows in dark colors. I was startled and pleased. (I … Continue reading →

A big volume of Oscar Wilde’s stuff has been my bedside book for a couple days. Here’s a nifty from his essay “The Decay of Lying” (by which he really seems to mean fantasy–if OW ever really can be said … Continue reading →

1. The AV Club is still running its series of reviews of Star Trek: The Series Without a Subtitle. Over at the Pyr-O-Mania blog a posted some semi-thoughts about the modern paucity of cool character actors like Ted (“Lurch”) Cassidy, … Continue reading →

Jason Waltz tells me my author-interview for “The Red Worm’s Way” has gone live at the Rogues Blades site. It is there that I finally tell all about everything, except on the questions I forgot to answer.

My latest post at the Blog Gate is up. It’s about sf/f criticism (not Bulwer-Lytton, sadly). And it looks like I’m going to be late to my first class, so I guess this is the morning I try out those … Continue reading →

As an intermittent mackerel-snapper, every now and then I look around at what is supposed to be my church and feel like the guy in Ionesco’s Rhinocéros who looks around and sees everyone turning into a rhino. And when I … Continue reading →