Thursday, October 24, 2013

'OR OPALINE ALGOL' - A Lost Edwardian Poet

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The offices of provincial printers, booksellers and stationers (they were often in one place) sometimes saw their everyday fare of tradesme...
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

THE PROSERPINE PRIZE

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In my short story "The 1909 Proserpine Prize" I imagined an Edwardian literary award, founded by an inventor of luminous umbrellas...
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Friday, October 11, 2013

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The Paperback Fanatic is a surprisingly long-lived labour-of-love of collector/cognoscente, Justin Marriott.  The magazine specialises in ...
Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Evangeline Walton's SHE WALKS IN DARKNESS now in print

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Another quick note to call attention to the fact that Tachyon Publications has just published for the first time Evangeline Walton's ...
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Mike Barrett's DOORS TO ELSEWHERE

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A quick post here to recommend a new book from Alchemy Press, which collects (often in expanded and revised forms) a bunch of essays Mike ...
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Sunday, September 29, 2013

Do Marionettes Die? - Maria Luise Weissmann

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“We love our slender dolls so much - Their white faces are lonely” Maria Luise Weissmann (1899-1929) translated the work of Paul Verlai...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

The Return of Kala Persad

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The Divinations of Kala Persad (1895) by Headon Hill introduced possibly the first Hindu detective in Victorian fiction. The title characte...
Friday, September 20, 2013

LE VISAGE VERT new issue no. 22

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Another stellar volume of Le Visage Vert has appeared, and needs to be recommended.  This is issue no. 22, dated June 2013.  The lead items...