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Arts & Humanities > Fantasy & Science Fiction Dystopian commonalities in science fiction

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...or why dystopian fiction is so common. We all know what the model dystopian novel is, since we had to read it in school. Some of us enjoyed it immensely; some of us hated it with a passion. In either case, we were presented with 1984 by George Orwell as the first true dystopian novel. Few of us probably questioned this, a... More..

Arts & Humanities > Fantasy & Science Fiction Book reviews: The Complete Guide to Writing Science Fiction

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Edited by Dave A. Law and Darin Park (sorry, the name of the book was too big to include the editors into the title). I received this book from EDGE/Tesseract, which is also in league with Dragon Moon Press, who happened to be the publisher of this particular book. On a side not to this, they also have a couple volumes of a ... More..

Arts & Humanities > Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine reviews: Neo-Opsis Issue #12

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Neo-Opsis was one of the magazines that I purchased a single copy of several weeks ago as part of my move to find magazines worth subscribing to. Part of the reason is I that I need to keep up with the short story market for my own writing and because I feel rather detached from the market anyway, having not read any 'new' s... More..

Arts & Humanities > Fantasy & Science Fiction Book reviews: Bright of the Sky, by Kay Kenyon

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I remember exactly what prompted me to pick up this book when I saw it in the store: the cover. I'm rather partial to covers, especially covers that really reflect the genre of the book. In this case you can see that this is a weird cross between SF and F, and that very much reflects what takes place in the book. Mankind tra... More..

Arts & Humanities > British Authors Should Harry Potter author, JK Rowling, have announced that the character Albus Dumbledore was gay?

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Let's face it. Literature is in need of more homosexual characters to act as positive role models to dispense with the otherwise bigoted and ignorant discrimination against the entire gay community, something which Martin Luther King, Jr. himself would do a comedic double-take over. There are plenty of gay characters out the... More..

Arts & Humanities > Literature (Other) Should books have ratings like movies to warn parents about inappropriate content?

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First and foremost, the day that we censor literature in any fashion is the day we literally destroy wester culture by being completely hypocritical and ignorant. Would the proponents of putting warning labels on books also be willing to put a rated R sticker on the Holy Bible? Incest, murder, genocide, and all manner of vio... More..

Arts & Humanities > Marketing & Selling Writing Should you sign with a legitimate book publisher or self-publish?

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There is a reason why self-publishing has a stigma attached to it. First, anyone willing to take the thirty minutes on Lulu can have a self-pubbed book. What this also means is that for every 'one' good book, there are hundreds of thousands of books that shouldn't have been published in the first place. Success stories exist... More..

Arts & Humanities > Fantasy & Science Fiction Harry Potter and those who would have the books banned

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One thing that might add to the interesting paradox of Christian based reasons for banning or publicly defacing literature is the idea of book burnings. Clearly banning books seems to have the opposite effect since in today's society one usually knows when any work of significance is banned thanks to the media. Book burnings... More..

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