Audible Frontiers did a shared universe stories called METAtropolis with John as one of the authors and the editor of the anthology. That was my first encounter with John’s writing and I enjoyed it. So when Powells Books announced John’s visit to their bookstore, I was there. He was amazing, as I have already mentioned [...]
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Enjoy Fuzziness …
Posted: 4th July 2011 by JPS Nagi in Authors, Books, English, General, Literature, Sci-Fi, Science FictionTags: Anecdotes, Books, funny, Fuzzy Nation, H. Beam Piper, Jack Holloway, John Scalzi, life experiences, Little Fuzzy, METAtropolis, novels, People, Reading, Whatever
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Magic is magic … Bramble is bramble …
Posted: 27th June 2011 by JPS Nagi in Authors, Books, English, Fantasy, General, Literature, Sci-Fi, Science FictionTags: Alchemyst, Audible, Audible.com, Books, Bramble, Executioness, Fantasy, general, Jonathan Davis, Katherine Kellgren, Literature, Magic, METAtropolis, novels, Paolo Bacigalupi, rare, Reading, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, SF&F, Tobias Buckell, water
In Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Alchemyst and Tobias Buckell’s The Executioness we meet characters from the world where bramble has taken over fertile farm lands and use of magic is punishable by death. Once a glorious and prosperous world, where magic was practiced freely; now has bramble everywhere. Bramble has strange affinity to magic; it roots [...]