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Shaw had a breakdown, but he's getting himself back together. He has a single room, a job on a decaying …
King Rat is an urban fantasy novel by British writer China Miéville, published in 1998. Unlike his Bas-Lag novels, it …
M. John Harrison has produced one of the greatest bodies of fiction of any living British author, encompassing space opera, …
Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo—he’s just a regular guy who was …
An historical fantasy with bite. This debut novel from Naomi Novik is set in the Napoleonic period and layers history …
Allison K Williams: Seven Drafts (Paperback, Coriander Press)
As a freelance editor for more than a decade, Williams has shepherded books from rough draft to polished manuscripts bought …
Sculley has gotten a bit of a bad reputation as "the man who threw out Steve Jobs", but the reality is that Jobs had to go, and without his period in the wilderness of NeXT he would never have been a success. This includes a lot of interesting details.
Sculley has gotten a bit of a bad reputation as "the man who threw out Steve Jobs", but the reality is that Jobs had to go, and without his period in the wilderness of NeXT he would never have been a success. This includes a lot of interesting details.
Once, Lovelace had eyes and ears everywhere. She was a ship's artificial intelligence system - …
Having read “A long way to a small angry planet” last year, I finally got around to finishing the second in the Wayfarer series. I have to say it took me a while to warm to it – it was one of those books I picked up, read a bit, then dropped for a while in favour of something else – but eventually I not only finished it but really enjoyed it. There are some really interesting themes here: parenthood, identity, what it means to be a person, and they are all handled beautifully (one part had me in tears). Definitely recommended, and the good bit is it’s a standalone story so you don’t have to have read anything else in the series first, even though it follows on from events in “A long way…”.
Having read “A long way to a small angry planet” last year, I finally got around to finishing the second in the Wayfarer series. I have to say it took me a while to warm to it – it was one of those books I picked up, read a bit, then dropped for a while in favour of something else – but eventually I not only finished it but really enjoyed it. There are some really interesting themes here: parenthood, identity, what it means to be a person, and they are all handled beautifully (one part had me in tears). Definitely recommended, and the good bit is it’s a standalone story so you don’t have to have read anything else in the series first, even though it follows on from events in “A long way…”.
Harrison has always been an exceptional short story writer, as this collection demonstrates. Some of the stories are just weird: what might happen, for example, if it became fashionable (and not deadly) to smash an axe into your face? Others act as preludes to some of his longer work. All of them, though, are worth your time if you like acrobatic writing of the highest order.
A short book full of extremely sensible advice about making the jump from being an occasional writer to a professional one. It manages to cover, in a really clear way, simple methods for getting yourself to write regularly (the key to making a profession of it), organising your time and finances, and organising your workspace. I'd definitely recommend it, even if you're not a writer but want to be serious about any creative work.
A short book full of extremely sensible advice about making the jump from being an occasional writer to a professional one. It manages to cover, in a really clear way, simple methods for getting yourself to write regularly (the key to making a profession of it), organising your time and finances, and organising your workspace. I'd definitely recommend it, even if you're not a writer but want to be serious about any creative work.
Allison K Williams: Seven Drafts (Paperback, Coriander Press)
As a freelance editor for more than a decade, Williams has shepherded books from rough draft to polished manuscripts bought …
@xth Ha! That’s been on my “to read” pile (literally a pile) for about two years. I think I might quietly move it towards the bottom.
