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Rodolfo Martínez Guest Post–“Twenty Years Ago…”

August 4, 2015 admin 1 Comment Discussions, Guest Post, Re-reading

Note: Special thanks to Steve Redwood for his assistance with the translation of this piece.

Between 1985 and 1994 I wrote, more or less, a novel a year. All of them, except Cat’s Whirld and Jormungand, have been lost. Although not completely; somewhere there are typed copies of a few of them, or parts of them; and many of the themes, situations, and incidents of the majority of those ...Read More

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That warm and fuzzy feeling

June 27, 2011 admin 5 Comments beast, deety, gay deceiver, heinlein, hilda, jake, Oz, re-read, Re-reading, zeb

(I’ve very, very, very slowly been re-reading Heinlein. Previous posts are here.)

Heinlein’s The Number of the Beast might just be my all-time favorite of his adult novels. No, it’s not the writing, although it does clip along with that Heinleinian efficiency and knack for phrase. No, it’s not how seamlessly Heinlein creates new worlds and how smoothly he signifies their subtle difference from our own. No, it’s not the ...Read More