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Tag Archives: ursula le guin
The Sea a Sham Born of Uniformity: On Subverting the Normal with Gene Wolfe (Throwback Thursday)
This year I introduced an occasional feature I call “Throwback Thursday.” This is where I find a blog post from the past–raiding either my own vault or someone else’s–and throw it back out into the digital world. This might be … Continue reading
“A Novelist’s Business is Lying”: What SciFi Can Do by Ursula K. Le Guin
When a re-encountered the books as an adult, I was thoroughly won over by Ursula K. Le Guin‘s Earthsea Cycle. I tend to write about writers who are rooted in deep worldviews. It is not that every good book is … Continue reading
From The Hobbit to Harry Potter, From Fairy Tale to Epic
In his Cinderella Story essay, “On Stories”—an essay that was passed over when it was first published but now known by anyone who thinks about Fantasy literature—C.S. Lewis defends Fantasy literature by placing it on a higher shelf of literatures. … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Writing, Fictional Worlds, Lewis' Essays, Reflections, Thoughtful Essays
Tagged books, C.S. Lewis, Dan Brown, Experiment in Criticism, fantasy, Guy Gavriel Kay, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, literature, Lord of the Rings, Middle Earth, Narnia, The Hobbit, ursula le guin
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Digital Dust? Thoughts on my 300th Post
300 posts. Wow. When I began this project, I had little sense of an end in sight. It really began as a way of reading C.S. Lewis out loud. Over time, as my roots have deepened, the tree has branched … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Writing, Fictional Worlds, News & Links, Original Research, Reflections
Tagged C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, fantasy, Guy Gavriel Kay, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, King Arthur, literature, Madeleine L'Engle, Neil Gaiman, Ransom Trilogy, Stephen King, Terry Pratchett, ursula le guin
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The Sea a Sham Born of Uniformity: On Subverting the Normal with Gene Wolfe (#WritingWednesdays)
Classic SciFi authors will cringe when I admit this, but I am reading Gene Wolfe for the first time. It just hasn’t come across my path until I found a dozen Ursula K. LeGuin and Gene Wolfe books at a … Continue reading
Posted in Fictional Worlds, On Writing
Tagged books, fantasy, Gene Wolfe, literature, myth, Science Fiction, The Shadow of The Torturer, ursula le guin, writing, Writing Wednesdays
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O Foolish Writer: The Living Reality of an Author’s Work #WritingWednesdays
This post is part of an ongoing series Called Writing Wednesdays. This is repost of an earlier blog for those of us foolish enough to walk down this path. Previous blogs include: The Writer’s Spidey Sense False Starts and Missteps: … Continue reading
2013 End of Year Book Survey
I thought I would jump in on the End of Year Book Survey over at The Perpetual Page-Turner. Looking at the pages linked there, it was a big year for fiction. My reading list is mostly non-fiction, but I have … Continue reading
