LURID: Scream If You Want To Go Faster - The Live Horror Experience

LURID: Scream If You Want To Go Faster - The Live Horror Experience

LURID: vivid in shocking detail; sensational, horrible in savagery or violence, or, a guide to the merits of the kind of Bad Books you never want your co-workers to know you're reading.

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10 Things The Walking Dead Has To Do To Keep Me Watching

10 Things The Walking Dead Has To Do To Keep Me Watching

Here are some things you should know about me as a viewer of The Walking Dead, before reading any further.

#1. I am a huge fan of the comic book. While it’s not always perfect, it’s regularly very strong, and has been for over 100 issues now – which is incredibly difficult to do. In fact, The Walking Dead was the book that brought me back to reading monthly comics after a long hiatus.

#2. Nobody wants to like a great zombie television show more than I do.

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Return to the Masculine: The Reemergence of Men's Pulp Fiction in the Age of eBooks

Return to the Masculine: The Reemergence of Men's Pulp Fiction in the Age of eBooks

A couple of years ago, Amazon was heavily advertising its Kindle eReader with this little commercial below:

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10 Questions With Channel SK1N Author Jeff Noon

10 Questions With Channel SK1N Author Jeff Noon

Just a few weeks ago, we brought you the belated news that science fiction author Jeff Noon had written his first new novel in a decade. This was almost a year after I had asked the question, What The Hell Ever Happened To... Jeff Noon?, and got the then hoped-for answer: Working on a new book.

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Big ‘A’ Little ‘a’: Writing Between the Concrete and Abstract

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Big ‘A’ Little ‘a’: Writing Between the Concrete and Abstract

Fiction’s currency is specifics: specific characters, specific places, specific descriptions, specific actions, specific events. Of course, writing addresses big ideas — some would say the biggest ideas. So, how do we get there through an examination of the small? Devising a decoding process that takes the reader from the story’s collection of concretes to its universal themes is one of writing's true paradoxes. And as most paradoxes go, the majority of writers who struggle with this quandary fall victim to it.

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Primer: Gene Wolfe - The Subtle Master

Primer: Gene Wolfe - The Subtle Master

That Gene Wolfe is one of the grand masters of science fiction and fantasy is a fact disputed by few. Michael Swanwick called him “the greatest writer in the English language alive today.” Patrick O’Leary called him “the best writer alive. Period.” China Mieville called him “a god” and said, “He is one of the great living authors.” Ursula K Le Guin has called him “our Melville.”

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Library Love: Reader’s Advisory - Expert Advice On What To Read Next

Library Love: Reader’s Advisory - Expert Advice On What To Read Next

Let me tell you about my Buddhist friend, an avid reader. He reads multiple books concurrently, each occupying a specific time of his day. He paces himself, allowing only a few chapters at a time, savoring every literary morsel. Reading takes him on a jaunt into the writer’s world, where he dips his toes, splashes a little, and then returns to his life.

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Direct-Address Commafication

Direct-Address Commafication

Comma pendant by Chao & Eero

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Hey, Jack, off that horse.

A completely legitimate imperative sentence. Forget to put your commas in the right place, however, and suddenly you’re writing a different story, for a different market altogether.

Or try this:

Look at the computer, genius.

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