Category Archives: prose

monsters

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 December 17 by Anton

David Brin writes: Next time you reread LOTR, count the number of powerful beings who are vastly uglier than anybody with that kind of power would allow themselves to be. Er . . . one? And that’s rationalized in the story; Sauron … Continue reading →

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it’s all a game anyway

Posted on Saturday, 2002 December 07 by Anton

Wincanton (Somerset) twins with Ankh-Morpork (Discworld). (Relayed by Richard Alexander on anarchysf.)

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for the many who have sought here in vain

Posted on Saturday, 2002 December 07 by Anton

. . a story that legitimately contains the phrase “Harry Potter nude”. 2006: daisygrrl.com has died, but this appears to be the same fanfic.

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1897-1997

Posted on Thursday, 2002 November 28 by Anton

Teller doesn’t talk, but he writes. His story A Memory of the Nineteen-Nineties, a sequel to Max Beerbohm’s “Enoch Soames” (which I read sometime in the Eighties), almost makes me wish I’d thought of making the same pilgrimage. Teller’s account … Continue reading →

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one hundred eighteen

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 November 27 by Anton

Periodic Table of Science Fiction: Michael Swanwick is writing a short-short story for each of the elements, one a week.

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yet more revisionist criticism

Posted on Friday, 2002 November 08 by Anton

Harry Potter – Pampered jock, patsy, fraud. By Chris Suellentrop. (Thanks to Michael Travers for the link)