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Fairytale Fantasy Week 2026: Everyone loves a rogue
. . . and that’s why everyone loves Robin Hood. What is a rogue, exactly? The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language gives this as its first definition: “An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal.” But… Continue reading
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Fairytale Fantasy Week 2026: A Good Robin Hood Read Is Hard to Find
Today, DAY TWO of FAIRYTALE FANTASY WEEK, I take a look at some of the many recent Robin Hood-themed novels and comment on two of them. Every year during the week including Valentine’s Day, this blog explores a theme connected… Continue reading
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Six novels take a serious look at alien communication: Part 5, The Three-Body Problem
In this series of posts, I review six novels with alien communication as a main plot point: The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu, 2006 (English translation by Ken Liu published in 2014) This novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin (using… Continue reading
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