A confession: I’m having trouble making my way through Stephen King’s Under the Dome. I must also confess I’m a bit puzzled by this. I’m definitely a fan of King’s work. And from what I’ve read so far, this book sticks pretty closely to high points of his […]
Lately I’ve noticed a few examples of a trend: authors who got their start writing science fiction have switched to writing fantasy. Why might this be? Probably because it’s become a bigger market!
Ursula Le Guin writes about fellow science fiction author, China Miéville: “China Miéville knows what kind of novel he’s writing, calls it by its name, science fiction, and exhibits all the virtues that make it an intensely interesting form of literature. It’s a joy to find this […]
Ursula K. Le Guin swears like a motherfucker in a piece about swearing : “So God is dead, at least as a swearword; but hate and feces keep going strong. Le roi est mort, vive le fucking roi.”
I keep a tally of how many books I read every year, and I was shocked to find that at the end of June, i.e. halfway through the year, that my numbers were running at about one-third of the usual total. What the heck happened?
“Reaching the inaccessible”–Book View Cafe has Ursula Le Guin’s Cat T’ai Chi cartoons.
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