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Tag Archives: apex magazine
Frivolous Friday: Miscellaneous Links for 3/15/2013
Here’s a grab-bag of interesting and utterly unrelated links with which to amuse yourself.
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Posted in blogging
Tagged apex magazine, fake geek girls, female road narratives, kelly mccullough, knockout punch, racism, ramen empire
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Online Fiction Recommendations & Publications for 3/12/2013
Here’s some pieces that I’ve particularly enjoyed over the last week, as well as pointers to some recent publications of my own.
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Posted in online fiction
Tagged amid the words of war, apex magazine, ben burgis, broad universe, cast of wonders, che guevera, drabblecast, e. lily yu, eliza hirsch, eric marsh, gail z. martin, j.j. roth, jake kerr, kate baker, kimberly long-ewing, liz argall, logic and magic in the time of the boat lift, near+far, rachel swirsky, roxanne bland, were-gator
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Writing in 3-D
Landscape and long descriptions are often a feature of fantasy and science fiction. Often the purpose is to look gee-whiz pretty, but it can inform the story in many ways. Here, for example, is the beginning of Gormenghast:
Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around its outer walls. They sprawled over the sloping earth, each one half way over its neighbor until, held back by the castle ramparts, the innermost of these hovels laid hold on the great walls, clamping themselves thereto like limpets to a rock. These dwellings, by ancient law, were granted this chill intimacy with the stronghold that loomed above them. Over their irregular roofs would fall throughout the season, the shadows of time-eaten buttresses, of broken and lofty turrets, and, most enormous of all, the shadow of the Tower of Flints. This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.
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Tagged apex magazine, description, gormeghast, jim c. hines, maria doria russell, online workshop, twin peaks
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“So Glad We Had This TIme Together” Up At Apex
My story, "So Glad We Had This TIme Together," is up on Apex in an issue that includes a lot of really good stuff from Gregory Frost, Sarah Dalton, and Jim C. Hines. I hope you'll check it out! The … Continue reading
Recent News
I’m listening to Lady Gaga’s Alejandro and pondering a foray through World of Warcraft with Brightweed the Tauren warrior, who is only a bubble away from leveling, but first I thought I’d catch up with recent news. “Close Your Eyes” will appear in the February issue of Apex Magazine, “Karaluvian Fale” in Giganotasaurus, and “Long Enough and Just So Long” in Lightspeed. Continue reading