Category Archives: prose

fun with paranoia

Posted on Sunday, 2009 March 29 by Anton

I’m reading Cory Doctorow’s novel Little Brother, which has been nominated for a Prometheus Award. In another tab I’m reading an autobiographical comic-strip by a boy of the same age as the novel’s narrator; switching between them is sometimes surreal. … Continue reading →

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Incandescence

Posted on Tuesday, 2008 December 02 by Anton

In Greg Egan’s latest novel, as is not uncommon in first contact novels, the chapters alternate between the viewpoints of a human explorer and a member of the newly discovered species. In defiance of convention, Rakesh never finds Roi’s world. … Continue reading →

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cozy dystopia

Posted on Wednesday, 2007 July 25 by Anton

Glasshouse is Charlie Stross’s best fiction yet, so far as I know.

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Foundation and Spam

Posted on Thursday, 2007 June 07 by Anton

Got a spam today from someone who evidently used Asimov to feed the gibberish-generator: Well, are implicated. When I’m most difficult to the regent, the nervous high priest in this tendency reached was up are Now? Hardin jump; remained silent … Continue reading →

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writing tip of the day

Posted on Friday, 2007 March 02 by Anton

If you use “however” in two consecutive sentences, it’s a sign that your paragraph could benefit from rearranging. If you use “however” in three consecutive sentences, your paragraph may be beyond help.

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runes, mountains, scary monsters …

Posted on Saturday, 2005 December 17 by Anton

Roderick Long points out parallels between A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and The Hobbit.

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blowing up a star, and afterward

Posted on Monday, 2005 July 11 by Anton

(This post was previously part of another one, severed for what now seems to me greater convenience.) Charlie Stross‘s recent novel Iron Sunrise has a surprising number of minor errors. The distance between Moscow Prime and Old Newfie is stated … Continue reading →

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