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Tag Archives: science fiction
Alfred Bester on What a Science Fiction Author Does
The mature science fiction author doesn’t merely tell a story about Brick Malloy vs The Giant Yeastmen from Gethsemane. He makes a statement through a story. What is the statement? Himself, his own dimension and depth. His statement is seeing … Continue reading
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Tagged alfred bester, hell's cartographers, science fiction, writing
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John Gray on The Man in the High Castle
John Gray is a writer who I have an immense amount of respect for, and he’s taken the occasion of the new Amazon Prime series centered on Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle to talk about Dick, reality, and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Theory
Tagged books, John Gray, philip k. dick, science fiction, the man in the high castle
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Epanalepsis Trailer
I’ve been making a game for the last six months called Epanalepsis. It is a science fictiony game about time and cities and contemporary life and it doesn’t really fit a lot of the traditional boundaries of adventure games. It will … Continue reading
Posted in A Game I Made, Video Games
Tagged a game i made, epanalepsis, science fiction, video game
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“Like a sack with an animal trapped inside”: on the quizzle
I just finished Jonathan Fast’s The Secrets of Synchronicity, and while the book on the whole isn’t so great, there’s a section later in the book that has to do with quizzles. “Quizzles? What’s a quizzle?” “It’s a lump of rock,” … Continue reading
Posted in Theory
Tagged jonathan fast, science fiction, speculative fiction, the secrets of synchronicity, theory
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Walter Miller’s Alien Invader
It swam like an airborne jellyfish. A cluster of silver threads it seemed, tangled in a cloud of filaments–or a giant mass of dandelion fluff. It leaked out misty pseudopods, then drew them back as it pulled itself through the … Continue reading
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Tagged quote, science fiction, walter m. miller jr
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Josephine Saxton on science fiction
What I would really like is for readers to read my work, not only SF fans, who have, like rubber fetishists and gourmets, Special Tastes, and often cannot enjoy anything outside their label. Let me put in a plea, not … Continue reading