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As if to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of my first novel hitting the shelves, I have three publications and a roundtable today! “All Under Heaven,” “Gorgoneia,” “In the salt-drowned lands,”, and “Closer to the Heart: A Poetry Roundtable” are all out now!
It’s raining poems! “Core Sample” is out today in DreamForge Anvil.
Another new poem today: “The Virtues of the Throne”, which you can read or listen to at that link!
From the Journal
Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s Green Sky Trilogy
Over the years I’ve picked up a few books by Zilpha Keatley Snyder that I remembered loving as a kid — specifically, The Egypt Game and The Velvet Room. But the one I kept wondering about was Below the Root and its sequels (And All Between and Until the Celebration), which form the Green Sky […]
New Worlds: Gold Rushes
I live in California — specifically in the San Francisco Bay Area, a place whose history is indelibly shaped by the gold rush of 1848. And, having proposed in last week’s essay a speculative path to industrialization involving the discovery of some kind of unobtanium, I find myself led naturally to the notion of a […]
New Worlds: Industrialization
There’s a particular type of alternate history whose premise is: what if [fill in the blank past society] industrialized? (Rome is a particular magnet for this.) The challenge of such speculation is that we have precisely one data point for what de novo industrialization looks like. Many parts of the world have industrialized, but they’ve […]