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A Ruthless Criticism of All That Doesn't Exist. I am particularly interested in the way that these stories deal with the societal impact of technologized modernity, especially in their encounters with politics and race, gender, and class. At the top of the page you will find a link to a list of the anthologies which I have read and reviewed. On the right-hand table of contents, you will find a dropdown menu that will allow you to browse the stories by various themes and metadata. Enter your comment here.
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WHM – Wm Henry Morris
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Gently painting genre into a corner. WHM distrusts poetry and dislikes time travel narratives. So guess what he just wrote! Photo by Angela Morris. Return to preserve that perfect moment. Return with a crust of salt, a cloud of smoke, a cube of ice, a cruet. Of vinegar, a crock of butter. A clear glass bottle in which to carefully rebuild it in miniature (but not out of matchsticks–of sensory details and flickering images and elusive feelings and. You don’t know what. Bought at a saddle shop. Of birch tr...
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sequels – Wm Henry Morris
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Gently painting genre into a corner. Sworn in Steel by Douglas Hulick. WHM learns that the passage of time can make him change his mind about the second book in Douglas Hulick’s Tales of the Kin series. It has now been over a month since I finished. But some books take time to digest. And this has proven to be the case for me and. A month later, I have come to realize that my initial reaction to the novel was colored too much by the expectations I had set up for the book as a direct sequel to. On Reader ...
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Sworn in Steel by Douglas Hulick – Wm Henry Morris
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Gently painting genre into a corner. Sworn in Steel by Douglas Hulick. WHM learns that the passage of time can make him change his mind about the second book in Douglas Hulick’s Tales of the Kin series. It has now been over a month since I finished. But some books take time to digest. And this has proven to be the case for me and. A month later, I have come to realize that my initial reaction to the novel was colored too much by the expectations I had set up for the book as a direct sequel to. On Six obs...
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Humor – Wm Henry Morris
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Gently painting genre into a corner. I occasionally post humor pieces here on my blog. I’ve posted links to a few selected favorites below. Click here to view all of my humor posts. Signs your urban fantasy is becoming gentrified. A boyfriend walks into an Ulta store…. Liberating the Joycean Corpus. Apologies to an upset roommate. Back in the Day…. The White Shoe Irregular. 2003: Another Academic Journal Falls for Postmodern Hoax. 2001: Roma Sunflower Seed Cartel Releases Earnings Warning. On Reader expe...
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Guest post at Bookworm Blues, etc. – Wm Henry Morris
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Gently painting genre into a corner. Guest post at Bookworm Blues, etc. I have a guest post at Bookworm Blues today. That’s on three fantasy novels from 2014 that reward patient readers. I’m delighted that Sarah was willing to give me a slot on her blog and hope you all enjoy it . This blog has been quiet of late. That’s because:. I’ve been writing fiction more steadily. The day job got really crazy during the month of September. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Your email address will not be published. On Si...
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County Doctor, a translation of Kafka’s Ein Landarzt for the American West – Wm Henry Morris
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Gently painting genre into a corner. County Doctor, a translation of Kafka’s Ein Landarzt for the American West. Image credit: Neenah History, flickr. The following is a translation of Franz Kafka’s short story “Ein Landarzt” that I did in the summer of 2004. I publish it here so that I have a more permanent home for it on the web. Two notes follow the main text of the story. My only horse had died of overexertion the night before, a casualty of this icy winter. My hired girl was now running around t...
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Short Story – Wm Henry Morris
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Gently painting genre into a corner. County Doctor, a translation of Kafka’s Ein Landarzt for the American West. Image credit: Neenah History, flickr. The following is a translation of Franz Kafka’s short story “Ein Landarzt” that I did in the summer of 2004. I publish it here so that I have a more permanent home for it on the web. Two notes follow the main text of the story. My only horse had died of overexertion the night before, a casualty of this icy winter. My hired girl was now running around t...
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Kafka – Wm Henry Morris
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Gently painting genre into a corner. County Doctor, a translation of Kafka’s Ein Landarzt for the American West. Image credit: Neenah History, flickr. The following is a translation of Franz Kafka’s short story “Ein Landarzt” that I did in the summer of 2004. I publish it here so that I have a more permanent home for it on the web. Two notes follow the main text of the story. My only horse had died of overexertion the night before, a casualty of this icy winter. My hired girl was now running around t...
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Reader expectations and Ancillary Sword, Hawk, The Peripheral and The Slow Regard of Silent Things – Wm Henry Morris
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Gently painting genre into a corner. Reader expectations and Ancillary Sword, Hawk, The Peripheral and The Slow Regard of Silent Things. WHM reviews four books — Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie; Hawk by Steven Brust; The Peripheral by William Gibson; and The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss — by looking at his reader expectations in relation to them and his actual reading experience. Those are some heavy expectations to live up to. And yet, my perception is that reader expectations for.
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