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Christmas friday diary
There’s the wonder and magic of Christmas. Then there’s speculative. The revolution continues. While Christmas may have a rich place in the fantasy tradition, as Paradoxes has argued, th… more →
The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond
christmas friday diary
Mr. Pond wrote 22 hours ago: There’s the wonder and magic of Christmas. Then there’s speculative. The revolution co … more →
James Cameron's Avatar
Jake Seliger wrote 4 days ago: “Sometime in the next twenty years or so, the technology that enabled Avatar will become cheap … more →
chanukah friday diary
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Mr. Pond wrote 2 weeks ago: The holidays are here, and so are the robots. Welcome to the revolution. Scientists have finally st … more →
the fantasy of holidays
Mr. Pond wrote 2 weeks ago: Shtick is a useful word this time of year. So is kitsch. The sad fact of holiday hype has descende … more →
friday diary
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Mr. Pond wrote 3 weeks ago: Technology advances, as we leave behind space travel for typewriters. Cormac McCarthy is selling his … more →
to sleep, perchance
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Mr. Pond wrote 3 weeks ago: To dream. The subtle lure of silent realms that pull us, breathless, to places we will not remember. … more →
Friday Diary
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Mr. Pond wrote 1 month ago: Floating white mice just might be our spiritual soul mates. On bicycles. Brace yourself for a parad … more →
creative words, conjuring life
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Mr. Pond wrote 1 month ago: I sat down intending to write about the environmental implications of genre fiction. Green fantasy, … more →
words, power, deadlines
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Mr. Pond wrote 1 month ago: But some are. (Like that guy looking for the A key.) ‘Beware the ides of November,’ the … more →
Friday (the thirteenth) Diary
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Mr. Pond wrote 1 month ago: Abandon hope, ye who do not enter here. Just when you thought all your wildest dreams would come tr … more →
the fantasy of social justice
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Mr. Pond wrote 1 month ago: I believe in the power of fantasy. ...some are more equal than others. (c) Ben Templesmith George Or … more →
day nine: not to be confused with the cloud
Mr. Pond wrote 1 month ago: Word Count: (In my defense, I cut out a whole chapter.) 11/3: 24840 11/8: 26780 This is said to sym … more →
Friday Diary
Mr. Pond wrote 1 month ago: Here’s an experimental post, stylistically indebted to the inimical Hugh Muir. Think of it as … more →
The Novelist is Mad, and other fairly freakish tales
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Mr. Pond wrote 1 month ago: some things can never be replaced Once upon a time, a king declared that anyone beginning a story wi … more →
three days and running
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Mr. Pond wrote 1 month ago: My independent progressive version of nanowrimo began the way Eliot said the world would end–n … more →
weekend = novels?
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Mr. Pond wrote 1 month ago: My decision to unofficially participate in NaNoWriMo, by writing 2k or so words a day on my existing … more →
november = novels?
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Mr. Pond wrote 1 month ago: November is National Novel Writing Month. But what does that mean? ‘So,’ the geek with the plaid sca … more →
trends, part 2: I see books about dead people...
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Mr. Pond wrote 2 months ago: Drop dead, I grant you...but gorgeous? What is it with all these books about dead people? A series o … more →
trends, part 1: is it raining in here? It's raining in there, too.
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Mr. Pond wrote 2 months ago: I’ve read with some fascination early reviews of The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. Terry Gill … more →
