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Category: (special) Guest Blogs

Back to the Future…with a Warhammer – Aaron Dembski-Bowden Guest Blog

On July 30 By Aaron Dembski-Bowden In (special) Guest Blogs, Books & Comics, Gaming

Aaron Dembski-Bowden is back!

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Sandman Meditations – The Wake

On July 27 By Matthew Cheney In (special) Guest Blogs, Sandman Meditations

Matthew Cheney is reaching the end in these collected essays on Neil Gaiman’s epic Sandman run with The Wake.

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Escaping into Fiction – Sharon Shinn Guest Blog

On August 15 By Sharon Shinn In (special) Guest Blogs

When I was having an interesting time of it in college, I was seized with the notion that I was reading an incredibly long and detailed story about a woman named Sharon Shinn, and at …

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Deadpool – Badass of the Week

On August 7 By Ben Thompson In (special) Guest Blogs

Ben Thompson chronicles the crazy badass history and highlights of the Merc

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What is Style? – Notes From New Sodom

On August 1 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

Big question. Hal Duncan has (long) answers.

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The Order of the Blue Flower by Hal Duncan – Notes from New Sodom

On June 21 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

Science Fiction and Fantasy broken down and put back together by Hal Duncan on the quest forthe Blue Flower.

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How My Load Got Shot – Jedidiah Ayres Guest Blog

On August 24 By Jedidiah Ayres In (special) Guest Blogs

I just read a review of the film F*ckload of Scotch Tape that ended with this paragraph: “In the end, F*ckload of Scotch Tape is the cinematic equivalent of a repeated kick to the nuts …

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Badass Moments in Sci-Fi History

On June 23 By Ben Thompson In (special) Guest Blogs

A guest blog by Ben Thompson, who kicks ass.

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Cock Fisting Commercialism – Ray Banks Guest Blog

On February 13 By Ray Banks In (special) Guest Blogs

You know, when I think about it, Wolf Tickets is a lot like cock fisting. Bear with me.

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Honky Tonk Heroes – Benjamin Whitmer Guest Blog

On January 24 By Benjamin Whitmer In (special) Guest Blogs

There was a time when being an admirer of Cormac McCarthy was more than a little like being a member of a cult.  It was before Oprah, when the only way you’d have heard of …

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The Kindly Ones – Sandman Meditations

On November 22 By Matthew Cheney In (special) Guest Blogs, Sandman Meditations

The beginning of the end as the spawn of Dream enters the game in these Matt Cheney essays on The Kindly Ones.

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Sandman Meditations – World’s End

On November 4 By Matthew Cheney In (special) Guest Blogs, Sandman Meditations

A little Canterbury Tales in Dreaming for Matthew Cheney to analyze for us.

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Doctor Doom – Badass of the Week

On October 14 By Ben Thompson In (special) Guest Blogs

Ben Thompson is back to show you all the street and cosmic cred Doctor Doom has.

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The Bleating of the Lesser Snipewank – Notes from New Sodom

On August 18 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

Hal Duncan discusses the media reaction to Sarah Thornton’s successful libel suit of Lynn Barber.

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The Marriage(s) of Science Fiction & Fantasy – Notes From New Sodom

On August 9 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

Hal Duncan is guest blogging and has genre on his mind.

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Simone Boyce and Game of Thrones Cast at Summit Entertainment’s Comic-Con Soiree

On July 25 By Simone Boyce In (special) Guest Blogs

Simone on the beat meeting the Game of Thrones cast… and towering over them?

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Brief Lives – Sandman Meditations

On July 5 By Matthew Cheney In (special) Guest Blogs, Sandman Meditations

Delirium & Destruction reign in this series of essays by Matthew Cheney continuing his journey into the dreaming.

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Batman – Badass of the Week

On July 3 By Ben Thompson In (special) Guest Blogs

DC’s rich playboy mortal detective gets the badass treatment from Ben Thompson. Are you prepared?

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Sandman Meditations – Fables and Reflections

On June 25 By Matthew Cheney In (special) Guest Blogs, Sandman Meditations

Constantine returns and we enter the land of stories in these collected essays on Fables & Reflections by Matthew Cheney.

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The Ghost and the Golem – Notes from New Sodom

On June 15 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

The ever evolving, the reborn, and death of Science Fiction? Hal Duncan contemplates SF.

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Positing a New Author-Reviewer Relationship – Sam Sykes Guest Blog

On June 7 By Sam Sykes In (special) Guest Blogs, Book Reviews

I’ve occasionally suggested to those who know me best, and subsequently to those who know me to be a terrible human being with few redeeming factors past my ability to imitate Hugo Weaving, that the only …

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Notes Towards a Sort of Supreme Fiction – Chris Barzak Guest Blog

On June 3 By Chris Barzack In (special) Guest Blogs

I was going to write an essay describing the state of the speculative fiction genre, or describing my uneasiness with certain genre-oriented tenets, but I decided not to. I thought, then, that I might write …

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GrimDark: Loose Canon & Warhammer Race War Aaron Dembski-Bowden Guest Blog

On April 20 By Aaron Dembski-Bowden In (special) Guest Blogs, Books & Comics, Gaming

Aaron Dembski-Bowden bringing his cannons to canon. Also his warhammer.

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An Essay into Exoticism – Notes from New Sodom

On April 7 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

Hal Duncan on Exoticism in Literature, representation, cultural appropriation, and needed suspicion.

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Sandman Meditations – A Game of You

On March 15 By Matthew Cheney In (special) Guest Blogs, Sandman Meditations

Matthew Cheney meets Barbie Adventures as he continues his Sandman Meditations in A Game of You.

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The Secret Cuisine – Notes from New Sodom

On March 7 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

Hal Duncan examines science fiction and fantasy as genre and literature and speculative fiction’s place in culture.

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You’ve Been Punked – Sam Sykes Guest Blog

On February 11 By Sam Sykes In (special) Guest Blogs

If science fiction revolves around the question of “what if,” and fantasy revolves around the question of “what was,” then the question of “what is, but not so recently is, and more like what was, …

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A New Urban Fantasy – Sam Sykes Guest Blog

On February 11 By Sam Sykes In (special) Guest Blogs

If you’ve been at all concerned with the state of fantasy in the past few years, you’ve probably noticed a drastic shift in genres.  The market has split wildly into many segments, including that bastion …

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Sandman Meditations – Season of Mists

On February 8 By Matthew Cheney In (special) Guest Blogs, Sandman Meditations

Matthew Cheney visits Hell and Ragnarok following Gaiman in Season of Mists.

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Gareth Edwards’ Monsters – Notes from New Sodom

On February 7 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

Hal Duncan on how strange Gareth Edwards is.

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Being a Hack: Writing a Shared-World Novel – Erin M. Evans Guest Blog

On January 25 By Erin M. Evans In (special) Guest Blogs

Erin M. Evans takes a break from Forgotten Realms to bring you this.

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The Kipple Foodstuff Factory – Notes from New Sodom

On December 3 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

Pulp? Science Fiction? and Sci-Fi? Kafka? Lovecraft? Atwood? Hal Duncan speaks on genre.

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Sandman Meditations – Dream Country

On December 2 By Matthew Cheney In (special) Guest Blogs, Sandman Meditations

Matt Cheney dreams a dream of 1000 cats in this chapter of his walk through of the Gaiman Sandman run.

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The Booker and the Bistro de Critique – Notes from New Sodom

On October 12 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

Hal Duncan ponders the Man Booker Prize and the candidacy of science fiction and fantasy novels in his latest Notes from New Sodom.

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Sandman Meditations – The Doll’s House

On September 14 By Matthew Cheney In (special) Guest Blogs, Sandman Meditations

Taverns, serial killers, and… MTV? Matthew Cheney’s journey through Gaiman’s Dreaming continues.

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Would a Robot Love You? – Notes from New Sodom

On September 4 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

Romantic advice from the future from the great Hal Duncan.

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The Combat Fiction Bar & Grill by Hal Duncan – Notes from New Sodom

On August 22 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

Combat Fiction in science fiction and fantasy. What it is. Why. And Catch-22? Hal Duncan explains all in the latest Notes of New Sodom.

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Sandman Meditations – Preludes & Nocturnes

On July 23 By Matthew Cheney In (special) Guest Blogs, Sandman Meditations

This is the beginning of the best issue-by-issue analysis of Sandman IMHO. Follow Matt Cheney’s journey through Sandman and start here!

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Thanos – Badass of the Week

On July 21 By Ben Thompson In (special) Guest Blogs

SNAP! Find out more of the exploits of Thanos before Infinity War. They are def BADASS.

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The Lost Airbender – Notes from New Sodom

On July 3 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

The world needed it, and we got it. The Hal Duncan take on The Last Airbender movie.

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Under Heaven and the Book World Under Siege – Guy Gavriel Kay Guest Blog

On June 4 By Guy Gavriel Kay In (special) Guest Blogs

The great Guy Gavriel Kay blesses my blog.

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The Spelunkers of Speculative Fiction – Notes from New Sodom

On May 2 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

Speculative fiction. Science Fiction versus Sci-Fi versus science fiction versus Fantasy versus fantasy?Hal Duncan on genre and labels.

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The Kerspindle Kerfuffle – Notes from New Sodom

On February 28 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

The book world stands off as Macmillan and Amazon square off over digital domination in publishing.

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Outlining for Non-Outliners: An Outline – Erin M. Evans Guest Blog

On January 19 By Erin M. Evans In (special) Guest Blogs

Erin Evans is back from the Realms to outline your life.

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Coffee and Conversation with Hegel and Manfried Grossbart – Jesse Bullington Guest Blog

On November 16 By Jesse Bullington In (special) Guest Blogs, Interviews

Jesse Bullington – Good morning, and thank you for agreeing to this interview. Hegel: [Mutters something incomprehensible to Manfried] Manfried: [Mutters back. This goes on for some time, until:] Uh huh. Mornin. Hegel: Sure. Good …

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On Blood, Bad Boys and Bottoms – Notes from New Sodom

On November 5 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

Vampire! Hal Duncan’s latest Notes on New Sodom examines vampires in popular fiction, specifically Anne Rice, Twilight, and Poppy.

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An Open Letter to Those Terrified of E-Piracy – Gary Gibson Guest Blog

On October 29 By Gary Gibson In (special) Guest Blogs

There are many pro writers out there worried by piracy, who see the internet as the greatest illegal intellectual land-grab of all time. Here’s the deal:  if you’re worried enough to want to stop it, …

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Science Fiction and Why It Needs Secret Decoder Rings – Gary Gibson Guest BLog

On October 5 By Gary Gibson In (special) Guest Blogs

It does seem like the eternal war between SF and the mainstream just goes on and on and on, doesn’t it? One minute you think it’s dead and buried, the next it’s climbing back out of …

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To the Water Fountains – Notes from New Sodom

On October 1 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

Hal Duncan on discovering Samuel Delany, punk rock, the Ramones and Burroughs

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Fantasy: Violation of the Possible? – Betsy Tobin Guest Blog

On September 9 By Betsy Tobin In (special) Guest Blogs

Is it possible to break the rules of fantasy writing by adhering to them too strictly?  When Borders UK first shelved my novel Ice Land in the Fantasy/Sci Fi section, I was gobsmacked (to use …

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Down in the Ghetto at the SF Café – Notes From New Sodom

On September 3 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

Defining science fiction, it’s birth, midlife, some punk, and current state with Hal Duncan in the latest Notes from New Sodom.

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What the Devil Taught Me – Richard Kadrey Guest Blog

On July 13 By Richard Kadrey In (special) Guest Blogs

The author of the bestselling Sandman Slim series is here to bless you with a guest blog.

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On Religion and Safehold – David Weber Guest Blog

On July 8 By David Weber In (special) Guest Blogs

I’m definitely trying to make a statement about religion in my novels, at least in the case of the Safehold novels, although people who have read my other books will be aware that I’ve used …

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On Kings and Assassins – Lane Robins Guest Blog

On June 11 By Lane Robins In (special) Guest Blogs, Book Reviews

Writing the sequel to Maledicte was an interesting challenge, since I had originally thought of Maledicte as a stand-alone novel. Sure, it has some loose ends waving in the breeze, but life’s like that. A …

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LIFE’S A BALL! CHASE IT – Margaret Weis Guest Blog

On February 26 By Margaret Weis In (special) Guest Blogs

What do authors do when they’re not writing? I race my dogs in a sport that is fun, loud, exciting, and crazy. It’s called flyball.

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Alternate Londons – Guest Blog By Ian R. MacLeod

On January 29 By Ian R. MacLeod In (special) Guest Blogs

Ian R. MacLeod visits Miclonian to help you make your way through all the Londons.

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Borders Essay – Guest Blog by Jacqueline Carey

On January 27 By Jacqueline Carey In (special) Guest Blogs

I’ve always loved mythology in all its forms. These are the stories that inform our collective unconscious; these are the raw stuff of our dreams. Gods and monsters, heroes and villains, saviors and victims. All …

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The Latest Teacup Tempest – Notes From New Sodom

On January 22 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

Hal Duncan breaks down the latest book world debate, examining Elitism, Escapism and authorship in publishing.

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Why I Write Science Fiction: An Apology – Alan DeNiro Guest Blog

On January 18 By Alan DeNiro In (special) Guest Blogs, Book Reviews

I read a lot of pulp when I was a kid. Most of it was crap. I also wrote a lot of adventure stories and half-baked space operas, most of which were crap too. Around …

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Petals of the Rat: loose notes for a new movement – Alan DeNiro Guest Blog

On January 15 By Alan DeNiro In (special) Guest Blogs, Book Reviews

This isn’t a manifesto. This is a series of observations in a particular range of time, made on a mode of writing that I love, what on any given day can be called speculative fiction. …

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The Mosaic Novel – Guest Blog by Richard Bowes

On January 14 By Richard Bowes In (special) Guest Blogs

When I decided to call From The Files Of The Time Rangers, a Mosaic Novel, I thought that the term was one that Jeff VanderMeer had invented for his brilliant multi-layered Veniss Underground. But when …

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Join me or Die! : A Few Words on the Necessity of Dark Power – Guest Blog by Elizabeth Bear

On January 12 By Elizabeth Bear In (special) Guest Blogs

Darth Vader is your father. But you knew that already, didn’t you? Despite the power of those words to evoke a reaction of surprise – a shiver of fear, a frisson of titillation – don’t …

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The Scourge of Sci-Fi – Notes From New Sodom

On January 5 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

Fantasy & Science Fiction as genre, where it came from and where it’s going and the discussion around it from Hal Duncan.

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James P. Blaylock Interview – Where in the World is William Ashbless?

On August 9 By Jay In (special) Guest Blogs, Book Reviews, Comics, Game of Thrones, Interviews

James P. Blaylock was one of the writers, along with Jonathan Carroll, that was at the forefront of reeducation of what Fantasy was or rather could entail, and it was work like The Paper Grail …

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A Mignola Daydream – Rhys Hughes Guest Blog

On June 21 By Rhys Hughes In (special) Guest Blogs, Comics

I first learned of the existence of Mike Mignola only in 2007 when I received an email out of the blue from a writer and editor by the name of Christopher Golden. His message informed …

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Your Prescription for Reading?

On October 26 By Jay In (special) Guest Blogs, Book Reviews, Comics, Game of Thrones, Interviews

This is the first of a new monthly feature we are calling Synergy. Basically, one of our contributors offers a single question for our other contributors to give answer to. Beyond that, we go out …

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Synergy! Sharing Favorite Scary Stories with Carrie Vaughn, Charlie Huston, Jimmy Palmiotti & More!

On September 5 By Jay In (special) Guest Blogs, Book Reviews, Comics, Game of Thrones, Interviews

Synergy is back! If you haven’t seen this column before, the basic idea is that we put the same question to a variety of professionals (and sometimes amateurs) who interest us to create a plateful of …

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Graphic Novels: Going the Long Way Round – Tim Eldred Guest Blog

On July 23 By Tim Eldred In (special) Guest Blogs, Comics

It’s a process that places abnormal demands on you and on the people around you. If this is the way you choose to express yourself creatively, there is a price to be paid for it. But …

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Susanna Clarke’s Magical Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Review

On June 4 By Jay In (special) Guest Blogs, Book Reviews, Comics, Game of Thrones, Interviews

In my opinion, simply stated, with no reservation what so ever, the best novel published in 2004. The best Fantasy novel? Well, yes, but also, the best fictional novel, bar none. Susanna Clarke’s debut novel, …

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