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Category Archives: Literature
Killing Kids in Books and Film
Perhaps because I teach courses about apocalyptic literature, and I’m an avid fan of end of the world stories, I have read and watched enough of the genre that I’ve noted a significant, if not disturbing trend. This is a … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Post-Apocalyptic, Teaching, Writing
Tagged Blood and Gore, Children of Men, Cormac McCarthy, Dale Pendell, Dystopia, End of the world, Eternity Road, Frank Darabont, Gratuitous Violence in the Media, Jack McDevitt, Killing Children, Lord of the Flies, Not Quite Dark, Resident Evil, Surviving the Apocalypse, The Great Bay Chronicles of the Collapse, The Road, The Walking Dead, William Golding, Working After the Collapse
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Construction and Writing Stories
I knew today was going to be busy, since it is supposedly going to rain tomorrow, but I woke to two dreams this morning, and one of them, at least, was so vivid, that I wanted to get it down … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Theory, Literature, The Cabin, Writing
Tagged Books, Code World, Writing
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Dean Koontz’s Innocence
Dean Koontz’s Innocence likely deserves or at least should be subject to, a mention of some kind. It was so vividly told, and with such evocative imagery, that I expected more from it than a hackneyed Eden story. The magic … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Literature
Tagged Atheism, Dean Koontz, Innocence, literature, Religion
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Science Fiction and the Literary World
In her condemnation of contemporary novels, Linda Miller’s “How Novels Came to Terms with the Internet,” makes several arguments that many novelists—actually she argues all novelists worthy of the name—avoid the implications of the internet in their work by confining … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Astronomy, Culture, Literature, Writing
Tagged Linda Miller, literature, science fiction, speculative fiction
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Content Management and the Internet
In prehistory the production of goods was done by hand and the potential purchaser had an item they could examine and then buy. The item was a chipped rock and the purchase was made with promise, threat, or exchange of … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Editing, Internet, Literature, Social Media, Writing
Tagged Content Provider, Internet, Neolithic spear point, Vanity Press
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The Word
When I was young I thought a single word could change everything. As I grew older I thought I needed to instead depend on collections of words, and hoped that by their jostling Brownian randomness they would somehow settle into … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Theory, Literature, Writing
Tagged Ferdinand de Saussure, Jacques Lacan, Leonard Cohen, Signified, Signifier
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The Body Out of Control
For some reason literary treatment of the body out of control is both evocative and frequently avoided. You can think of Margaret Laurence’s Stone Angel which is touted as being such a great portrayal of a disintegrating mind, but one … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Theory, Literature, Singularity
Tagged Charles Stross, Gulliver’s Travels, Harry Potter, Margaret Lawrence, meatspace, Singularity, Stone Angel
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