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The Joys of History and Academia in Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

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That Was Awesome! Writers on Writing

Authors and editors talk about the small moments, big epics, and crazy things in the books that they love.

Surprise, Fear, and an Almost Fanatical Dedication to the Womack

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Andrew Vachss and Blue Belle: The Great Opening Line

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Giving a Story Room to Breathe: Joe Hill’s NOS4A2

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That Was Awesome! What the Bad Guy in Daniel Polansky’s She Who Waits Really Wants

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Footnotes Done Right: Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

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A Breathtaking Duel in Dorothy Dunnett’s The Game of Kings

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The Delicate Balance of World-Building: Scott Lynch’s Red Seas Under Red Skies

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That Was Awesome: Tony Ballantyne’s Dream Logic

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The Contradictions of Diane Duane

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Balancing on a Precipice: The Gothic Reach

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Entanglement: Angélica Gorodischer’s Kalpa Imperial

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It Wasn’t Aliens, and They Weren’t Dead All Along: The Big Reveal in Blake Crouch’s Pines

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Forbidden Spheres and Cosmic Gulfs: The Weird Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft

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The Clockwork Dagger Beth Cato

Defining Character: The Opening Scene of The Clockwork Dagger

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Humorous Exposition: Roger Zelazny’s A Night in the Lonesome October

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Lloyd Alexander’s Tales of War and Youth

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That Was Awesome: Starfish by Peter Watts

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Thirty Years On: Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman and the Legacy of Mortality

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Neither Hero nor Anti-hero: Misha’s Red Spider White Web

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Great Opening Lines: God’s War by Kameron Hurley

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“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

William Gibson, Neuromancer

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