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John’s 2023 Year in Books
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John Wiswell
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Terry Pratchett
I'm so grateful that Terry Pratchett spent so many years creating incomparable fiction for us. Fantasy would not be the same without him.
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Someone You Can Build a Nest In
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Open House on Haunted Hill
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2020
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D.I.Y
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2022
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Uncanny Magazine Issue 24 September/October 2018: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue
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2018
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The Three O’Clock Dragon
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Questa storia non è la storia
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Flash Fiction Online 2017 Anthology Volume II: Science Fiction
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Galaxia 42 - nr. 20
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Fireside Magazine Issue 89, March 2021
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I'll Miss Myself: A Tor Original
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"As others have said, this started out with a weird, quirky and absolutely charming bang and then gets lost in the philosophical and geopolitical weeds. Some of the voices of marginalized characters are also a bit disconcerting. I'm not sure why, and "
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"Seth Dickinson you marvelous marvelous man. I went into Exordia having barely read the (extremely vague) summary, but putting full faith in one of my favorite authors to take me on a journey, and he damn well did. Exordia has already marked itself as"
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""History has suffered an intervention."
Reading Exordia felt like trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle while being chased by wolves, if the puzzle pieces were defense industry contractors and the wolves were also defense industry contractors who were laugh" Read more of this review » |
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"I could have finished this book last night, but I had to stop because it was super late and it was scaring the fu … uh, crap out of me. I actually did a marathon read of the remainder this morning so that I wouldn't have to read it past bedtime again"
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Damn! What a book. It got under my skin with the first chapter in a way no other novel has this year. What we have here is a small school of boys raised in entire isolation from the rest of the world, who are kept under the strict reign of something b ...more |
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“No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead.”
― Someone You Can Build a Nest In
― Someone You Can Build a Nest In
“Homily professed her love by digging a second crossbow bolt of Shersheshin's body. It was so much clearer a declaration of affection than any of those speeches spun by poets or playwrights. And stuffed into the mouths of actors who pretended to be enamored. One could only pretend to love in language. True love was a woman sinking up to her elbows in her viscera.”
― Someone You Can Build a Nest In
― Someone You Can Build a Nest In
“Weaknesses were a human invention. They called it your weakness if they fantasized about murdering you with it.”
― Someone You Can Build a Nest In
― Someone You Can Build a Nest In
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| SciFi and Fantasy...: D.I.Y by John Wiswell - March Short Story | 17 | 46 | Apr 01, 2023 07:10AM |
“A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture of utter despair.
James, what’s wrong?' the friend asked. 'Is it the work?'
Joyce indicated assent without even raising his head to look at his friend. Of course it was the work; isn’t it always?
How many words did you get today?' the friend pursued.
Joyce (still in despair, still sprawled facedown on his desk): 'Seven.'
Seven? But James… that’s good, at least for you.'
Yes,' Joyce said, finally looking up. 'I suppose it is… but I don’t know what order they go in!”
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James, what’s wrong?' the friend asked. 'Is it the work?'
Joyce indicated assent without even raising his head to look at his friend. Of course it was the work; isn’t it always?
How many words did you get today?' the friend pursued.
Joyce (still in despair, still sprawled facedown on his desk): 'Seven.'
Seven? But James… that’s good, at least for you.'
Yes,' Joyce said, finally looking up. 'I suppose it is… but I don’t know what order they go in!”
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“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
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“A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.”
― Harvest of Stars
― Harvest of Stars
“[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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John wrote: "Ella wrote: "Thanks for the friend request, John! Have you read any Dunsany?"Pleased to meet you, Ella! I only started reading him in 2013, when I was challenged to ape his style. I failed terrib..."
So true! Though apparently his unusual prose style caused him worry - he wrote once,
"For years no style seemed to me natural but that of the Bible and I feared that I never would become a writer when I saw that other people did not use it."
Ella wrote: "Thanks for the friend request, John! Have you read any Dunsany?"Pleased to meet you, Ella! I only started reading him in 2013, when I was challenged to ape his style. I failed terribly, though I wrote a preposterous thing in result. He's one of Fantasy's truly unique authors.
Thanks for the friend request, John! Have you read any Dunsany?
Ken wrote: "Hi John. Good evening, I hope the weekend is well. Thanks for accepting me on your friends list. I look forward to doing some back reading on your many book reviews and come across some gems that I..."Happy to meet you, Ken. Thanks for the earnest explanation of why you wanted to be friends in the invitation. It's rare someone explains like that. I ought to be reading more non-superhero comics this summer - Demo looks particularly appealing.
Joe wrote: "Hi john, Thanks for accepting, What is the one book you would recommend to me?Joe."
We do seem to have fairly similar tastes, looking at our two book feeds. You're reading one of my all-time favorite novels right now. Comparing the lists, I'd next recommend Huxley's Brave New World. It's a wild vision of the future pregnant with social commentary.
Hi john, Thanks for accepting, What is the one book you would recommend to me?Joe.
My dear friend,How have you been?
I would be very honoured if you could be so kind as to read my story and see it you like it?
http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/5...
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shakira
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Pleased to meet you, Ella! I only started reading him in 2013, when I was challenged to ape his style. I ..."
As someone just starting to get publications under my belt, I completely sympathize with his fear. He was unique in ways that would probably get a lot of any marketplace to shut him out. Many of our greats were like that!