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A speculative fiction advent calendar of quotes: Dec. 19, 2025
Parable of the Sower (1993) cemented Octavia Butler’s place as one of the best writers of speculative fiction in America. Shortly after publication of this novel, she was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the so-called… Continue reading
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A speculative fiction advent calendar of quotes: Dec. 18, 2025
Matt Dinniman’s hilarious novel Dungeon Crawler Carl (2020) is the first in a series of novels starring Carl and Donut as they navigate a world catastrophe (emphasis on the “cat”) requiring them to survive multiple levels of a fiendishly designed… Continue reading
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A speculative fiction advent calendar of quotes: Dec. 17, 2025
China Miéville, one of the best writers in any genre I’ve ever read, published The Scar in 2002. It may be my favorite, but that’s a hard call. Miéville writes what has been called “New Weird” fiction. This novel is… Continue reading
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A speculative fiction advent calendar of quotes: Dec. 16, 2025
Is Atwood’s dystopian novel too grim for a holiday collection of quotations? Too bad–look around you. The book has come to life before our eyes. Continue reading
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A speculative fiction advent calendar of quotes: Dec. 15, 2025
One of the most engaging anti-hero rogues in all fantasy, Locke Lamora is even more fascinating when paired with his buddy Jean. If you haven’t read The Lies of Locke Lamora, you have a treat in store. It is Book… Continue reading
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A speculative fiction advent calendar of quotes: Dec. 14, 2025
Susanna Clarke’s brilliant tour de force of a fantasy novel was published in 2004. Continue reading
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A speculative fiction advent calendar of quotes: Dec. 13, 2025
Here in the mountains east of Albuquerque NM it’s a bright mild day in December and the real 1984 is decades in the past, but Orwell’s dystopian classic still fits, now more than ever. Sadly. What better quotation to use… Continue reading
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A speculative fiction advent calendar of quotes: Dec. 12, 2025
Patrick Rothfuss’s 2007 fantasy novel The Name of the Wind gives a reader more fun than any reader has a right to have. The novel shouldn’t work. Magnificently, it does. (Except for Denna, the most annoying female character ever written.) Continue reading
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A speculative fiction advent calendar of quotes: Dec. 11, 2025
The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester, was first published in 1956 as “Tiger! Tiger!” Part Gulliver’s Travels, part Count of Monte Cristo, Bester’s hugely entertaining space opera is one of the classics of the Golden Age of SF. Continue reading
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A speculative fiction advent calendar of quotes: Dec. 10, 2025
Abercrombie’s The Blade Itself is one of my favorite fantasy novels, ever. And Logen Ninefingers is one of my favorite fantasy characters, ever. I am not alone. Check out this Reddit with every single “Say one thing for” quote in… Continue reading
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