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My China Miéville Crush: Grime, Birds, Weird.
I’m a big fan of China Miéville. You should be too, me thinks. We’ve talked about the New Weird in this here blog in the past, and Miéville is one of its ambassadors. His fiction floats a line between urban … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, insects, new weird, steampunk
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Excerpt from the novel ‘Carapace’ by Cesar Torres
Cesar Torres Copyright, 2008 August 11, 1989 Andrana’s stomach wound tight like a ball of twine, and she fought the wave of queasiness at the back of her throat. She swallowed thick spit, and she tasted bitterness from the coffee … Continue reading
Why You Should Eat Winter Kale and Read Roberto Bolaño
The novelist Roberto Bolaño’s posthumous novel “2666″ is out now. I too, wonder if Roberto Bolaño is a genius. A dead one, of course. He’s passed away. His writing is all at once satyrical, hallucinatory, language rich, fantastical, menacing and … Continue reading
‘Every silver shell that you crush will be enough’
62,985 words completed. 17, 015 words to go. The end is somewhere off in the distance, but I can see it now. It’s coming. Carapace is moving along. I even found a better title for it. Carapace is only a … Continue reading
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Tagged insects, ladytron, nanowrimo, new weird
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Oh Now We’re Talkin’
Yesterday’s word count was good and satisfying. 831 in Carapace, and a whopping 1563 words on the short story. So I know, this skews a bit more in favor of the short story (and I had set out to tackle … Continue reading
