Following the previous post, about the difference between fantasy and surrealism, or between stories with defined rules of reality and those without, I’ve had a couple of thoughts. To start with, I remembered that Jeff VanderMeer, commenting on something China Miéville said, briefly discussed “fantasy novelists who read like realists and supposedly mimetic novelists whose world […]
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I just put up a new post at Black Gate, a look at Ursula Pflug’s intriguing collection After the Fires. I liked it quite a bit. And two things came out of writing the piece. First, I noted that one of Pflug’s stories was first printed in an anthology called Album Zutique, a reference to […]
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