Three Things For Today.
No great announcements, just a few writerly things I saw today: #1: Regarding my recent reviews of Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods, Jo Waltonnails my opinion to the floor: The techniques of writing and reading [science fiction] have developed in that time. Old things sometimes look very clunky, as if they’re inventing the wheel—because they [...]
New Story! And bonus stories by others!
In case you missed it, I’ve posted a new story in the Bastet series: Bath Night, which brings us to the most recent decade and a riff on something I read during the Iraq war. If you’re a fan of the Singularity, here are two stories told from opposite sides of the fence: Gentle Seduction [...]
Why I’m mad about it…
I suppose I should make clear that what makes me most annoyed about Winterson’s The Stone Gods (see previous post) is that the Used Furniture problem is more pernicious than just a good writer “slumming” around inside the SF universe, borrowing from the warehouse, or failing to think clearly either the justifications for her setting [...]
A premature book review: Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods
It’s hard to describe just how disappointed I am in Jeanette Winterson’s novel-length stab at science fiction, The Stone Gods. Winterson’s contemporary and historical fiction has a poetic sensibility that is beautiful beyond measure, a deftness of metaphor and exposition that will at times leave me breathless, unable to read another paragraph without pause to [...]
New Story: Bujumbura 1994
It’s hard to believe that I found a way to write a sex scene in the middle of what was probably the worst horror story of the mid-1990′s, the genocidal war that wracked Rwanda. I’ve even read two terrifying accounts, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, and [...]
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