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Writing About Rape
So you’ve decided to add a rape scene to your story. After all, you’re writing a horror story, and what’s more horrific than rape?
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Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Genre All the Way
Who doesn’t enjoy snuggling up with loved ones around the holidays and enjoying a good scifi/fantasy/horror movie? No hands up? Good, then I’m in the right magazine.
Read MoreJingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Genre All the WayThe Australian Dark Weird
Australians. They’re generally happy people, right? Beer, sunshine and prawns. Happy people in shorts, sunnies and thongs (it’s a kind of footwear, honestly!) Nothing sinister about that.
Read MoreThe Australian Dark WeirdThe Improbable, Inevitable Domestication of the Great Old Ones: HP Lovecraft’s Iconic Influence on 21st-Century Fantastic Literature and Culture
In his introduction to The Strange Sound of Cthulhu: Music Inspired by the Writings of H. P. Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi proclaimed that “[i]t is a tribute to H.P. Lovecraft’s universal appeal that he can elicit praise” and attention from a wide range of sources. “Clearly, different readers draw different types of nourishment from Lovecraft, and this diversity appeal [sic] augurs well for his survival….”
Read MoreThe Improbable, Inevitable Domestication of the Great Old Ones: HP Lovecraft’s Iconic Influence on 21st-Century Fantastic Literature and CultureFive Genre Books that Raise Mind-numbing Philosophical Questions
One of the great strengths of science fiction is its ability to present philosophical questions like “What does it mean to be human?” and “Where are the boundaries of our perception and reality?” in broader, more interesting terms simply by the function of its form.
Read MoreFive Genre Books that Raise Mind-numbing Philosophical QuestionsThe Top 10 Experimental Books You’ve Never Heard Of
Usually, when people start hammering out on the blogosphere about experimental, weird, crazy science fiction and fantasy (or horror) we get the same names and titles popping up every single time. I’ve got nothing against these people (or their works) but you have to wonder if that’s it—if that’s all?
Read MoreThe Top 10 Experimental Books You’ve Never Heard OfGrab Your Badge, Ready, Set, Meet!
Did you know that if you put your ear to the ground during a convention, you can hear the sound of laughter three blocks away? Whether you’re a reader or an author, a pro or an amateur, there’s a lot of fun to be had at a science fiction, fantasy or horror con.
Read MoreGrab Your Badge, Ready, Set, Meet!An Introductory Guide to the Nebula Awards
This year, Apex Publications is celebrating the Nebula nominations of two short stories: “The Green Book” by Amal El-Mohtar, which appeared in Apex Magazine issue 18; and “Ghosts of New York” by Jennifer Pelland, which appeared in the anthology Dark Faith.
Read MoreAn Introductory Guide to the Nebula Awards2012: The Good, the Bad, and the Apocalyptic
Few if any end-of-the-world scenarios can claim a longer history; none has more diverse roots. Depending on where you look, you may find prophecies about 2012 linked to everyone from the ancient Maya, Egyptians, and Hopi to the mysterious prognosticators Nostradamus and Edward Cayce, with helpings of the I Ching, reports from cutting-edge geophysicists and geologists, and various New Age self-realization texts thrown in for good measure.
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