Glen’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Glen’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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This has been a great week for my fiction with two new stories published.
First up is "I Feel Good" in The Daily Tomorrow. It's a story about a pandemic, but not the one you and I experience in 2020. Instead, The Giving Plague makes people feel great about doing good. But not everybody is happy about that.
Second is "Meat is Murder" in Phano. When vat-grown meat has replaced killing animals (e.g., b Read more of this blog post »
First up is "I Feel Good" in The Daily Tomorrow. It's a story about a pandemic, but not the one you and I experience in 2020. Instead, The Giving Plague makes people feel great about doing good. But not everybody is happy about that.
Second is "Meat is Murder" in Phano. When vat-grown meat has replaced killing animals (e.g., b Read more of this blog post »
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"Think that wraps up my time with Heinlein. As a big fan of both Helldivers games and the movie, I figured this was one I should cross off my list. I knew going into it that it did not play up the parody like the other 2 medias, but I wasn't prepared "
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| A cozy story about two good friends who each has a deathly fear of the other’s abilities in a particular sport, so of course what occurs in the story is a realization of the fear, but it all works out okay as they are able to come to a new agreement ...more | |
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| I confess to totally not understanding this story. The particulars are clear: the Brede’s are telling lies. But why? And why, if they are a newlywed couple, does that change things? Mysterious. | |
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"The Magicians trilogy had a large impact on me when I read it some 15 years ago. Being accepted to grad school and having to start to think about the next stage of life, it really hit home. Here was a kid that achieved or got everything he wanted, an"
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| This is pure, unadulterated fluff. Mind candy for those who are familiar with video games and its tropes. Unlike Travis Baldree’s Legends & Lattes, which also has fantasy tropes from books and games and uses them in an unconventional way to create so ...more | |
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| A fairly cozy bit about an old man who goes to town but doesn’t keep all his wits about him, both during the journey and then during his visit, falling so far as to go into his cups. What redeems the story from being just a mean bit is how the tired ...more | |
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| A children’s classic about staying positive and trying your hardest with its own mantra that drills itself into the heads of children: “I Think I Can.” What most people don’t remember from this book is how the Little Blue Engine is the fourth train t ...more | |
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| An update, basically, of the city mouse/country mouse story, wherein Mr Fluker plays the part of the country mouse, thinking the city would be mighty fine, while a Mr Pike is the city mouse, intent on taking advantage of his bumpkin cousin. The story ...more | |
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| This isn’t a biography or even a memoir. Instead, it’s a series of anecdotes recalled by Wakeman, keyboardist for a bunch of bands you’ve never heard of and a couple (The Strawbs and Yes) you likely have, as well as a solo artist and composer of prog ...more | |
“One might well think of ["Going Mobile" by Glen Engel-Cox] as a Carol Emshwiller or Connie Willis story...with balls.”
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“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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“I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host.”
― The Collected Dorothy Parker
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host.”
― The Collected Dorothy Parker
“Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy. That won't throw it's heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence...”
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“Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian-born U.S. novelist, poet. Interview in Writers at Work(Fourth Series, ed. by George Plimpton, 1976).”
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Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian-born U.S. novelist, poet. Interview in Writers at Work(Fourth Series, ed. by George Plimpton, 1976).”
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Magic realism is a global and varied mode of literature, from the early twentieth century European works which made the everyday seem magical, to the ...more
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