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With a less than enticing opening line (“The Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was one of the key figures in world literature during the twentieth century.”), this piece seems…
Inadvertently, the last two posts here have provoked reflections on how I fell out of love with fantasy (and a somewhat lesser extent science fiction) – so this review continues that theme. I…
Following my reflections of how I fell out of love with SF/Fantasy as a teenager , here is an example of a sturdy little book review for SF Site of the kind…
I had a fruitful email correspondence with Rick Wilber after this. My dislike of the uncritical celebration fan fic – also evident here – as something radical and innovative rather than derivative…
The original post is subtitled “Franz Kafka in Alternate History”. Re-reading the post I wonder if “and” is more precise, although as the bulk of the piece is a review…
I suggested this piece to the SAU Blog editor at the time and he was quite keen on it – promised to “use it shortly” but it has never appeared.…
On my other blog, A Medical Education , a brief post about an academic blog I kept for a few years turned into a nostalgia fest for my prior adventures in blogging.…
Séamus Sweeney 