A mix of fiction, history, and autobiography as a failed author and high school teacher navigates 80s Bucharest. Cărtărescu is a great stylist. Filled with surreal episodes in the liminal space between the droll ordinary life of late communist Romania and an incredible psychedelic fantasy worl...
Yao Xue from the business meeting group also invited me to propose “constitutional amendment” proposals. The F.8 proposal also caused controversy in the American science fiction circle. A group of science fiction fans attacked it on File 770. These somewhat brought back a bit of the “Worldc...
“I mean it, Fayra. I ha–” he belched, choking back bile before retching into the bucket for the fifth or sixth time since they left the docks at Redcastle. Neither of them expected the bucket was going to be emptied any time soon. As soon as they had agreed to help Lord Redca...
Mae personally handles the majority of our science fiction creative editing. She has worked for many years at the top echelons of publishing and chose us for our transparent and fair method of working.Although Mae is a fearless editor, it is only Dan who is brave enough to have direct ...
back to Europe—a rarity. There are about a dozen relatively reliable first-hand accounts from the period and not a lot of in-depth secondary works. While that has made my research a challenge, it has also created an interesting reverse effect, where the fiction itself has become a ...
“I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.”― Jorge Luis Borges Search The Spark? Posted onAugust 30, 2024 2 Harold Bloom in one of his meditations tells us: ...
“Clo Graves”, but became better known under her fiction-writing persona, “Richard Dehan”. She transgressed contemporary gender norms by dressing in male attire, wearing her hair short, and smoking in public. This border crossing can be seen also in her work, which encompasses a wide ...
[L]ittle more than a cheaply executed and in some respects remarkably old-fashioned piece of Grand Guignol […], a tongue in cheek commercial shocker constructed on the principle that the viewer should be given the odd frisson but never allowed to forget that he is watching a fiction […]...