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Ozblogging: The Road to Oz, Part 4
After escaping the Scoodlers, Dorothy and Company come to the end of the road, literally. It reaches the edge of the Deadly Desert, an expanse of gray sand which completely surrounds the Land of Oz. In the course of the books the Deadly Desert becomes more and more Deadly. The first time we see it,…
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Ozblogging: The Road to Oz, Part 3
Our Heroes continue along the road, which they now know to be the Road to Oz. (The reader knew that from the book title.) The landscape is pleasant — if you haven't noticed, this journey is considerably less perilous than Dorothy's past exploits. The travelers have spent every night in bed, and aside from involuntary…
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Ozblogging: The Road to Oz, Part 2
Dorothy and Company arrive at a very odd village. It's inhabited entirely by anthropomorphic foxes. The fox-people are initially suspicious of the newcomers, but the power of the Love Magnet quickly turns that to friendship. Our heroes are conveyed to the throne room of King Renard IV, the ruler of the foxes, known to his…
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Ozblogging: The Road to Oz, Part 1
The Road to Oz is the fifth of L. Frank Baum's immortal Oz series, published in 1909. Like its predecessor Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, it follows Dorothy on another difficult journey to Oz with a group of entertaining companions. Sure, by this point it's a formula, but it's a winning formula and Road…
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Novel Writing Month, Take 2
Well, all right, I didn't make semi-regular reports on Corsair. Unless one simply posts "I wrote more stuff today" there isn't that much one can say if things are going well. And if things are going badly, it seems even more pointless to post "I didn't write more stuff today." I've been managing between 500…
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Novel Writing Month, Take 1
I'm normally very leery of things like "National Novel Writing Month," but since I am in the middle of writing a novel I thought I'd make use of the opportunity to make semi-regular reports on what I'm doing and how much progress I'm making. Our story so far: The book I'm writing is provisionally titled…
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Story Alert!
My story "Object Three" is in the November/December issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Alexander Jablokov described this story as a bonsai space opera. It's got romance, shootouts, aliens, a big mysterious object, and people jumping out of spaceships. I just got my sample copy of the issue and it looks great.…
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How I Did It #8: “The Vampire Brief”
Since Halloween is only a couple of weeks away, it's appropriate to tackle my first horror story, "The Vampire Brief." It's another anthology story, written for the collection Odder Jobs, published by Dark Horse Comics. As the publisher name might suggest, the stories in Odder Jobs were all based on a comic book: Mike Mignola's…
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When Metaphors Attack!
Science Fiction has a problem. The problem is that it is (among other things) a literature of prediction. Writers extrapolate future worlds and new technologies. A huge part of the genre's appeal is simply seeing what the future might be like. The trouble with predictions is that either they come true, or they don't, and…
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How I Did It #7: “See My King All Dressed In Red”
This was the first story I wrote for an anthology, as opposed to a magazine, and it's also the only story of mine (so far) which has come true. "See My King . . . " was written for the anthology Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic, edited by F. Brett Cox and Andy…
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