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World Without Pain: The Story of a Search
The Woman Who Fell Backwards and Other Stories
Apocalypse Bluff and Other Stories
The Senescent Nomad Hits the Road
Invasive Procedures: Stories
Heroes and Other Illusions: Stories
Bedlam Battle: An Omnibus of the One Thousand Series
After the Fireflood
Caliban’s Children
The Fantasy Book Murders
Opting Out and Other Departures
Sunflower: A Novel
America Redux: Impressions of the United States After Thirty-Five Years Abroad
Fear or Be Feared: Fantasies
Writing as a Metaphysical Experience
Reviews and Reflections on Books, Literature, and Writing
The One Thousand: A Novella
The One Thousand: Book Two: Team of Seven
The One Thousand: Book Three: Black Magic Bus
The One Thousand: Book Four: Deconstructing the Nightmare
After the Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Memoir of Greece
The Misadventures of Mama Kitchen: A Novel
Dark Mirrors: Dystopian Tales
Love Children: A Novel
Painsharing and Other Stories
The Dragon Ticket and Other Stories
Tag Archives: Clarion West
What a Wonderful World
I woke up this morning with the song “What a Wonderful World” playing in my mind. It was no bland cover version either; the version in my head was the original recording sung by Louis Armstrong and made popular in … Continue reading
Book Review: A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison by Nat Segaloff; Part One: What H.E. Means to Me
On the short list of writers who most influenced my own career, Harlan Ellison has one of the top positions, if not the number one spot. Others on the list would be Jack London, Henry Miller, and Jack Kerouac. One … Continue reading
Russell Bates, Kiowa Writer
I have been reading a dynamic new book called The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America From 1890 to the Present, and I thought about my Native American friend Russell Bates and wondered what he might think of the book. … Continue reading
Book Review: No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Le Guin was one of my instructors at Clarion West 1973. It’s a shame I don’t remember very much about my Clarion experience; but after all, that was about 45 years ago and I had just turned twenty. I … Continue reading
Book Review: The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek: The First 25 Years by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman
When the original series of Star Trek first appeared on network television in 1966, I was thirteen years old. I had already been exposed to science fiction on television in the form of Lost in Space a year earlier. I … Continue reading
What Star Trek Means to Me
I recently started re-watching the original Star Trek series on Netflix. You know, the one with Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock and Bones the doctor, not to mention Scottie, Uhura, Sulu, and the rest of the crew. It’s been decades … Continue reading
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Tagged Clarion West, Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek, Star Trek - The Original Series
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Book Review: Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology Edited by Ellen Datlow
While I was at the Norwescon science fiction convention last spring, I attended a panel on the value of workshops for writers. There are all sorts of different types of such workshops, from local meet-ups of aspiring writers who informally … Continue reading
Book Review: Seattle City of Literature: Reflections From a Community of Writers, Edited by Ryan Boudinot
This book, though entertaining enough in its own way, disappointed me. It’s my fault, really. Too often my appreciation for things depends in a large part on my expectations. I was on one of my forays to the Amazon physical … Continue reading
On Rereading Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More From 27 Years of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop by Kate Wilhelm
My rereading this book is a result of my reaching out to the Clarion West community here in Seattle after moving back into the area. Personnel have changed, of course, since I attended Clarion West over forty years ago in … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, On Writing
Tagged Clarion, Clarion West, Kate Wilhelm, Storyteller, Writing
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