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Stories Matter…
Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Sarah Buhrman, author of Too Wyrd
What is the biggest thing that people THINK they know about your subject/genre that isn’t so? If I tell people I write fantasy, they think my story is about dragons, unicorns, mages or barbarians. If I’m more specific and say I write Urban Fantasy, they assume it’s about vampires… or at least werewolves. And if…
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On Writing and Myths…
There is a strange emptiness to life without myths. I am African American — by which I mean, a descendant of slaves, rather than a descendant of immigrants who came here willingly and with lives more or less intact. My ancestors were the unwilling, unintact ones: children torn from parents, parents torn from elders,…
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A.C. Efverman, Author of Game
Tell us something unique about you. I’m a Swedish author and I moved to Australia twenty years ago: as I never could stand the long, cold and dark winters in my home country. I now write a crime fiction series set in my adopted hometown Sydney – and I write my novels in both English…
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Science Fiction and Modern Technology
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. Ursula K. Le Guin
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Manfred, author of Magic Mirabelle and the Riddle of Night Opium
When and why did you begin writing? I began writing when I was a teenager, just after I finished high school. I was inspired by fantasy novels and books with elfish and fairy lore like George Macdonald and Tolkien, as well as Romantic poetry like Blake and Keats, who also wrote heaps about fairies and…
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Literary Awards May Be Ruining Fiction, Looking Back at 2016…
We Love It When Presidents Enjoy Science Fiction (Wired) It says a lot about the growing respectability of science fiction that a sitting president would proudly trumpet his love of the genre. WIRED recently decided to celebrate that cultural shift by publishing the magazine’s first science fiction issue. The stories were contributed by authors such…
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The Job of Good Fiction…
Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. David Foster Wallace
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Itzcuintli, Author of Running With Hummingbirds
When and why did you begin writing? I began writing for publication earlier this year (2016) after being laid off from my boring desk job and finding it extremely difficult to continue in my first career. In my personal life, I’d written short stories or poems that I shared with family or friends, but it’s…
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Running With Hummingbirds by Itzuintli
Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec Triple Alliance, still stands in 1810. For three-hundred years, their empire has survived conquistadors creeping through their jungles, plagues wasting through their streets, and black-robed missionaries denigrating every aspect of their society, their dreams, and their way-of-life, all for the sake of selling bibles. Thanks to Eagle-Warriors and Ocelot-Kin slipping…
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