Thus Spake Daniel Kalder
Essays, reviews and marginalia by the author of The Infernal Library, Strange Telescopes and Lost Cosmonaut.
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TSDK No. 92. The Expedition of Humphry Clanker (opens the original)
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TSDK No. 91. Bibliophile or Bibliomaniac? (opens the original)
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TSDK No. 90. The Great Gig in the Sky (opens the original)
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GreetingsHere are some words I wrote at night in my lunar module1, as insects screamed in the trees and strange frogs chirruped in the grass. Coming up:ReplicantsPilote Gallery The Odyssey: A ReviewIn Praise of Prog RockThe SloppelgängerProspero’s BooksThus Spake Daniel Kalder i
TSDK No. 89. Ragged Old Flag (opens the original)
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Yes, yes you’ve got your Great American Novel and sure, cinema is the quintessential American art form (sorry, France), but for me the essence of America has always been best captured in song. And there are a great, great many songs about America, a vast trove written and performed over the last 250 years, in every genre, in every style, except perhaps … Read more
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