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Gimbling in the Wabe – No Parking on Thursday

Published on : 15 January, 201615 January, 2016 Published by : Sharon Browning

The signs are up in the street in front of my house: No Parking on Thursday – Tree Work from 7:00 am to 4:00 pm. The guy who was putting the signs up yesterday morning didn’t seem to have a care in the world: “At least you won’t have to […]

Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

Published on : 27 March, 201326 March, 2013 Published by : Sharon Browning

Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells Edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling Tor Books First Edition: 3/19/13 ISBN 978-0-7653-3227-1 Take 19 established and talented writers. Give them the chance to craft stories full of fantasy, magic, gaslight, alternate history and/or visceral horror. Mix in a Victorian-era mindset and a nod […]

On this day, November 25, in 1926, science fiction writer Poul Anderson was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania. He was incredibly prolific, penning over 100 books, many of them novels. He had to his credit seven Hugo Awards, three Nebula Awards, four Prometheus Awards, and a SFWA Grand Master appointment in 1997; he was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2000. Interestingly, he was a founding member of SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism), the leading living history re-enactment group (with close to 30,000 members and 60,000 participants worldwide). He died of cancer in 2001 at age 74.

On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.

Gimbling in the Wabe – No Parking on Thursday

Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

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