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Inside the Blogosphere: How Do You Organize Your Library?

In this latest edition of Inside the Blogosphere, the irregular column in which I ask bloggers from across the internetz to respond to a personal question, I delved into book organizing styles:
As an avid reader, you probably have scads and scads of books. How do you like to organize them? Category, title, author, ebooks only, [...]

Science Fiction Ain’t Dead (So Shut Up) by Shaun Duke

Whoever keeps saying it needs to have a giant, Transformer’s robot pop them one in the mouth. SF ain’t dead. It ain’t dying. It ain’t even struggling to breathe. In fact, science fiction is probably doing better today than it ever was before. SF literature isn’t losing its place; it’s [...]

Science Fiction and the Death of the Human by Shaun Duke

(This is a brief account of some of my research regarding the literal and figurative death of the human.)
The future holds some interesting things for us. Science fiction imagines great fleets of spaceships and intergalactic wars, super drugs and cloning, cybernetic and bionics, aliens and human-created beings, and a whole list of other fascinating [...]

Working With Young Writers by Shaun Duke

As some of you may know, I am the editor-in-chief of a small, almost unknown, completely new magazine called Survival By Storytelling. This magazine publishes writers 25 and younger. My co-editor is a teenager from Canada. Everything about this magazine is like working in an entirely different world, and for good reason: [...]

The 1st Occasional Grasping for the Wind Invitational

I am going to be away for the next week, cruising the Caribbean with my family. Instead of letting this blog languish for an entire week, I asked a few bloggers and authors to contribute a guest post.
Each of the following links will go live once the post is live. Posts begin tomorrow and run [...]

New Print Magazine “Survival by Storytelling” Launches

Survival by Storytelling is a new print magazine edited and run by blogger SMD from The World in the Satin Bag.
Survival By Storytelling Magazine (or SBS Magazine) publishes quality fiction and poetry by young authors. It is run by Young Writers Online.net.
We are a small print and electronic magazine, currently published irregularly (there is [...]

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