Archive for July, 2008

SEEDS Blog Reviews

Check out Grasping for the Wind, a thoughtful and well-written SFF review blog, for a wonderful review of SEEDS OF CHANGE.
Here’s another review at Adventures in Reading.

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Critics, Science Fiction, Social Change, Oh My!

More than once my writing mentors have recited the quotation that “Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.” The Internet tells me a fellow named Christopher Hampton coined the phrase. Regardless, having heard the quotation more than once, I’ve been dreading my first [...]

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Fireworks in the Fog

Twenty odd Stanford medical students squeeze into a Cal Trans packed with other ‘peninsulares’ who are heading up to the city for the 4th. There’s a long train ride with card games and gossip. A subsequent adventure of muni and shuttles to get to the waterfront and then a safari through the crowds in the [...]

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