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- The Great Old Pumpkin, by John Aegard
(10/25/04)
- Fiction.
- I promised my family I would turn away from my studies, all the while resolving to continue in secret. I committed everything I knew to memory, burned all my papers, and embroidered my most unfathomable and precious secrets in near-invisible thread on my security blanket, which as you can see, I carry still.
- Interview: Blöödhag, by Victoria Garcia and John Aegard
(9/30/02)
- Music.
- Describing themselves as "edu-core," the band performs nothing but two-minute thrash tributes to science fiction writers. Between songs, the band pelts the audience with paperback books, quizzes them on book titles, and demands that the audience show their library cards. Their motto: "The Faster You Go Deaf, the More Time You Have to Read."
- Harrowing Urban Fantasy: Robert Charles Wilson's The Perseids and Other Stories, by John Aegard
(3/12/01)
- Review.
- If you had to sort Robert Charles Wilson's The Perseids and Other Stories into a bookseller's bucket, you'd probably reach for the one marked 'urban fantasy' . . . . But Wilson doesn't quite fit snugly alongside the feypunk set. His speculative territory is vast and impersonal and often chilling; far closer to Lovecraft than to de Lint.
- Ambiguous Reparations: Iain M. Banks' Look to Windward, by John Aegard
(12/18/00)
- Review.
- Challenged only faintly from within, the Culture has turned its gaze outwards . . . to meddle in the affairs of lesser civilizations. Such meddling is always altruistic, but the quality of the Culture's intentions . . . cannot guarantee that these interventions will produce desirable results.
Look To Windward is built upon such a failed intervention.
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