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Remembering John Crowley (opens the original)
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After he died, Liza Trombi, editor of LOCUS, asked some of us who had known John Crowley over the years to provide a short memorial to append to her own formal obit. The deadline was tight, but I think we were all able to say some things in time about a friend and writer we had loved in his person and in his work. These short responses are in the September LOCUS. My own first drafts are always glitchy, and I copy my own response here with a few syntax bloopers rectified: <div class="captioned-i
SFE EASTER EGGS (opens the original)
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I've mentioned this before in conversations about The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, but maybe it's worth mentioning again. It has a constant subliminal effect on how users access the SFE, how you access entries, what entries you're likely to access, what entries may lurk within. When in 1975 he conceived (and contracted with a packager to publish) the first edition of the SFE, Peter Nicholls decided that the entire book would be
A Recognised Tradition of Weird Writing (opens the original)
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Few figures have shaped the modern understanding of weird fiction as decisively as S. T. Joshi. For more than four decades, Joshi has been one of the genre’s most rigorous historians, a critic and advocate, producing an extraordinary body of scholarship that has helped define what the weird is, and just as importantly, what it is not. Through works such as The Weird Tale (1990), H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996), I Am Providence (2010), and Unutterable Horror (2012), he has insisted on aest
The Guardian's 100 Best Novels (Again) (opens the original)
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For the past month or so The Guardian has been promulgating a list of the 100 best novels as selected by readers. Various iterations of the list have appeared, one with George Eliot’s Middlemarch as number one (with Tolkien nowhere to be found), and a more recent iteration with J R R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings as number one.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J8sc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-medi
SFE Substack Submission Call (opens the original)
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (SFE) Substack has featured essays on topics ranging from the many dustjackets of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind and the Willows, the first syllable of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast, and the connection between J. G. Ballard and Brexit.Contributors include J
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