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Introducing Loshi vi Assarid — The Thief of Shimeth
Back in the late 1970s, I wrote a short story called The Gift of the Outcast. It was a deliberate attempt to write something that was closer to traditional sword & sorcery than the more elaborate fantasy I was writing. It concerned a young thief, Loshi, in a city called Shimeth who was hired…
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Wheel of Time & TV Review
Let’s talk Wheel of Time. How are you enjoying season 2? As you probably know, we have brought the After-Time podcast back (https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/after-time), and it’s a thumbs up from the panel this time round. Much better than seaso…
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Witch World by Andre Norton — A Retrospect
Back in the 1970s, after reading Lord of the Rings had changed my world, I naturally went looking for similar books. Lin Carter and the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series proved invaluable, not only for the old classics they reprinted, but also for the many other authors and series Carter name-checked in his various introductions.…
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The Market of Magical Goods collection in print!
And in the next catching-up-on-things post, I’ve collected all the Market of Magical Goods drabbles that I used to put up on Curious Fictions, added another dozen that hadn’t been published before, and made them into a chapbook. It’s something sm…
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The Market of Magical Goods collection in print!
And in the next catching-up-on-things post, I’ve collected all the Market of Magical Goods drabbles that I used to put up on Curious Fictions, added another dozen that hadn’t been published before, and made them into a chapbook. It’s something sm…
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"What Passes for Eyes in Dreams and Death" in Fantasy
I’ve been traveling (and even when not traveling, pulled in a thousand directions at once), so I have several different new publications/announcements/news-type things to post about that each deserve their own post. So first, in June my story “Wh…
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"What Passes for Eyes in Dreams and Death" in Fantasy
I’ve been traveling (and even when not traveling, pulled in a thousand directions at once), so I have several different new publications/announcements/news-type things to post about that each deserve their own post. So first, in June my story “Wh…
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"Hands That Cannot Grasp" in Kaleidotrope!
A bit late to this (and there’s more news coming very soon to add to it…). But I’m thrilled that my poem “Hands That Cannot Grasp” appeared in the latest issue of Kaleidotrope. It is a poem of transformation:Why did we do it? Why thistransformation i…
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"Hands That Cannot Grasp" in Kaleidotrope!
A bit late to this (and there’s more news coming very soon to add to it…). But I’m thrilled that my poem “Hands That Cannot Grasp” appeared in the latest issue of Kaleidotrope. It is a poem of transformation:Why did we do it? Why thistransformation i…
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"Excavating Lost Languages" in Frozen Wavelets #8! (and more…)
My flash story “Excavating Lost Languages” came out in that latest issue of Frozen Wavelets! It’s short and full of linguistic whimsy and imaginary writing systems, lost to time.Also, as a follow-up to my most recent post, my story from the Enigmatic S…