Posts Tagged ‘Authenticity’
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Five Points from the World Building and Infrastructure Panel – Continuum 15, Other Worlds.
This year there were two guest speakers at Continuum, the Melbourne science fiction and fantasy convention, Kate Elliott, author of the Spiritwalker, Crossroads and Black Wolves trilogies and Ken Liu, who has published short stories as well as an epic fantasy ‘silkpunk’ quadrology, The Dandelion Dynasty, the first book of which won the Locus Award ...
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Nostaligia
I was thinking the other day it would be fun to teach a class that explored the fiction of nostalgia. It’s because I’m reading Sophie Hannah’s latest Poirot book, The Closed Casket. It’s taking me an inordinate amount of time to read – not because of the book, I hasten to add – but because ...