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About Changing SF Book Lengths and Formats

Posted on Thursday 10 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Some more SF history, here in drafty first draft; first written last October, cleaned up a bit here. My target for essays like these are the very casual consumers of science fiction books and movies, and even some sophisticated current … Continue reading →

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Ls&Cs: The Fiction Novel

Posted on Friday 17 December 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

About how language changes, how some cultural assumptions are common among some but unknown by others, and how some people don’t know any of the things that anyone reading this blog know. With my own personal experiences of such matters, … Continue reading →

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SF Ls&Cs: Mary Shelley and Science Fiction

Posted on Friday 26 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

I should be more conscientious about posting about science fiction on this blog, which the subtitle at the top at least *implies* is a central theme. So I have three SF topics lined up, posting one today.

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Notes for a Series of Essays About Science Fiction

Posted on Tuesday 16 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

The essays I plan to write will be about science fiction — the nature of science fiction with discussion of many individual science fiction works — and the things science fiction is about. Which is most things.

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