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Dec
17
Some non-weird non-old books
in which I briefly suspend my vow to read only the strange and obscure
6 min read
Dec
09
Dark Flowers of the Pulp Age
reviewing every Clark Ashton Smith story, part 1
7 min read
Nov
24
The Women and the Warlords (1987)
the second half of a feminist epic
8 min read
Nov
16
Read my new short story "Another Tide"
A story of resistance, radicalism and sea anemones
1 min read
Oct
14
The Wordsmiths and the Warguild (1987)
teenage fantasy protagonist but make him act like an actual teenage boy
7 min read
Aug
02
Paradise and Hell: “The Gardens of Delight” by Ian Watson
with some thoughts on the value of modesty in fiction
6 min read
May
31
Two Books by Surrealist Women
Leonor Fini, Leonora Carrington, and the ocean of literature
6 min read
Apr
30
Discovering the True Nature of Time with Brian Aldiss’ “Cryptozoic!”
time travel, psychedelia and Freud
7 min read
Apr
09
Phantasmion: The First Fantasy Novel
Love and grief at the dawn of fantasy literature
7 min read
Mar
25
Rage and Revenge in Aboriginal Australia’s First Fantasy Novel
"The Kadaitcha Sung" asks whether the crimes of colonisation can ever be set right
11 min read