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Jack Vance 28.8.16 – 26.5.13 by David Gullen
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"A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment." - Jack Vance Continue reading
Posted May 30, 2013 at pornokitsch
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PK Interview: Frances Hardinge interviewed by Tom Pollock
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"I'm fascinated by flaws. Characters are nothing without their kryptonite. I couldn't write a character who got everything right - I'd be driven to kill them by page three." Continue reading
Posted Apr 9, 2013 at pornokitsch
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Friday Five: Gateway Smut
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"It’s ‘educational’. It’s also full of doggy-style sex." Continue reading
Posted Apr 5, 2013 at pornokitsch
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Friday Five: Winning with Webcomics
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Hope you weren't planning on getting too much done this afternoon... Continue reading
Posted Feb 15, 2013 at pornokitsch
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Kevin Lynn Helmick on What is Southern Gothic?
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"it seeps into and influences the literature, language, music and sex, as well as the snake charming Baptist, Voodoo magic and all kinds of other weird shit" Continue reading
Posted Feb 11, 2013 at pornokitsch
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Friday Five: Comic Books You Should Be Reading
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"all my girlfriends are dead I want a cigar dodgy CIA past lost my memories gonna run around Japan pretending I’m a ninja now bye" Continue reading
Posted Feb 8, 2013 at pornokitsch
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Hindsight: James Smythe
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"She knew what I didn’t: that those were fun bits of short story that didn’t really belong in the book. Didn’t matter whether I loved them, they should have been cut." Continue reading
Posted Jan 31, 2013 at pornokitsch
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David Bryher on Why "Genre" is Poison
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"It will be news to precisely no one that the use of "genre" within the publishing and bookselling world has, over many years, helped readers find the kind of things they love and then rigidly stay within those lines." Continue reading
Posted Jan 14, 2013 at pornokitsch
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New Releases: Electric Velocipede 24, reviewed by Harry Markov
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"Since an early age, I've always thought of reading speculative fiction as setting off on an expedition." Continue reading
Posted Dec 11, 2012 at pornokitsch
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Sam Wilson's Personal Apocalypses
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Tthe apocalypses below aren’t necessarily my favourites. They’re just the ones that, intentionally or unintentionally, have made me wonder what’s really going on with post-apocalyptic fiction..." Continue reading
Posted Oct 26, 2012 at pornokitsch
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The End of the World by Den Patrick
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"And so the stage is set for a demon, who has been complicit in Hell’s plans, to bring about the end of the world..." Continue reading
Posted Oct 22, 2012 at pornokitsch
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On the Trail of the Black Dove by Lou Morgan
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"At the Sign of the Black Dove" is about the end of the world. It's about friends losing themselves and each other as everything they know crumbles about them." Continue reading
Posted Oct 16, 2012 at pornokitsch
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Alan Garner's Boneland by Tom Pollock
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"This isn’t a review, by the way. I don’t know whether Boneland is a good book or not, I’m not sure the term really means anything for a story with so few comparators." Continue reading
Posted Oct 1, 2012 at pornokitsch
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Rae Carson's Fire and Thorns and Benedict Jacka's Fated by Lizzie Barrett
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Guest blogger Lizzie Barrett on two recent fantasy debuts: Rae Carson's Fire and Thorns (2011) and Benedict Jacka's Fated (2012). Continue reading
Posted Sep 26, 2012 at pornokitsch
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10 Inventions I'm Still Waiting For by Jeff Norton
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"Supposedly manufactured by Mattel in the "Back to the Future" sequel, director Robert Zemeckis even joked that the toy company had the technology but wouldn’t release the floating boards over health and safety concerns." Continue reading
Posted Sep 24, 2012 at pornokitsch
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Post-script: Edinburgh World Writers' Conference by Penny Schenk
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The tone was established when Ness began to launch into a full biography of Miéville, looked out at the eager crowd and said “Oh fuck, you KNOW who he is.” Continue reading
Posted Sep 4, 2012 at pornokitsch
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Why we need to ask "What if?" by Jeff Norton
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"I believe that the imagination is a muscle, an important muscle, and it must be worked and stretched if it’s to grow stronger." Continue reading
Posted Jul 31, 2012 at pornokitsch
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Lauren Beukes presents... Joey Hi-Fi
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"Wondrous alchemy in his insane, brilliant brain comes up with the cover you couldn’t have imagined, that’s better than you could have ever expected" Continue reading
Posted Jun 1, 2012 at pornokitsch
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Getting Younglings Reading by Adam Roberts
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"I’m aware that people have been complaining that ‘kids aren’t reading enough’ or ‘… aren’t reading the right things’ since Phoenicia rules the waves; but it does seem to me that we have reached a pinch-point unique in human history." Continue reading
Posted May 22, 2012 at pornokitsch
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Alan Garner's The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Tom Pollock
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"This is a game of make-believe which believes totally in itself." Continue reading
Posted May 20, 2012 at pornokitsch
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Terry Brooks' The Sword of Shannara by Justin Landon
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"At twelve, he was just struggling to fit in, to find a place for himself. Power was the least of his concern, he just wanted out. The notion that someday, out of the blue, a big fucking druid was going to show up at the door and carry him away was transportive." Continue reading
Posted May 16, 2012 at pornokitsch
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Will Hill's Department 19 by Lou Morgan
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Hill has written a roller-coaster, designed to sweep its readers along; but at the end of the ride, right before the gift shop and the exit, he's left a door ajar: a door marked "Here be monsters". Continue reading
Posted May 15, 2012 at pornokitsch
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Daniel Pinkwater's Lizard Music by Robert Jackson Bennett
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"It’s like I got a secret message from someone who really, deeply understood me, and while I sit and scratch my head and think, “What was that?” it’s already slipping away before I can understand it further." Continue reading
Posted May 10, 2012 at pornokitsch
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Ted Hughes' The Iron Man by Will Hill
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"When I read it as a kid, I (unsurprisingly) didn’t know or care what genre (or genres) it was a part of, who the author was, what had influenced him in the writing of the novel, or about anything beyond the fact that it was (and is) an absolutely brilliant story." Continue reading
Posted May 7, 2012 at pornokitsch
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Jon Courtenay Grimwood's Stamping Butterflies by Tom Pollock
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Stamping Butterflies is a gorgeously fractal novel. The closer you look at it, the more it unpacks itself. But it stays rooted in its people and never gets lost in its own cleverness. Continue reading
Posted Feb 22, 2012 at pornokitsch
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