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This week, off world: NASA is about to try moving an asteroid, the NRO launch what is (probably) and imaging satellite and loads more...​


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This week, off world: NASA is about to try moving an asteroid, the NRO launch what is (probably) and imaging satellite and loads more...

Here’s where you can donate to help Ukrainian refugees and war victims Pick o' the podcasts: Spacepod 201: International space law wi...
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This week's scrapbook / link storm of news and events off planet:

An Ancient Solar System:

This week, off world: NASA's DART mission rips plumes of debris from an asteroid, SpaceX may launch a mission to service Hubble, and loads more...

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This week, off world: NASA's DART mission rips plumes of debris from an asteroid, SpaceX may launch a mission to service Hubble, and loads more...

Here’s where you can donate to help Ukrainian refugees and war victims Pick o' the podcasts: Advert From the video store: NASA crashes...
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A quick summary of the arc of American fantasy

The purpose of this post is to give a quick abridged history of the development of American fantasy, as much for my own setting of ideas as anything. It squashes many issues and developments down s…
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Hugboxing and Scabpicking

Once upon a time a friend sent me a tweet thread all about these two terms. I can’t find the tweet thread right now, but it and what the friend said has stuck with me hard. For those unfamili…
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The 1000th Post Book Tag

Hey everybody. Guess how many posts this makes for me? You are correct! Happy 569th blog post to meeeee! Okay, joking aside, here it is. Post one thousand. It’s a proud moment and I wanted to…
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Juliana said:
A bit of a rant about characters, comparing The Rings of Power and House of the Dragon.

Let Me Like You: Writing Great Characters
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I have to say that much as I appreciate you can't have everything, my attitude to character vs plot is very much "give me everything". I demand to have my cake and eat it.

I'd also like to float that maybe it's not an entirely useful dichotomy in spec fic? We have a third side of the triangle in terms of setting/atmosphere - if setting isn't effectively a character in its own right - that often trumps both. Also, we're neither LitFic with its traditional obsession on character, nor are we Thrillers where their tradition and advertising clout allows them to focus heavily on plot. Our tradition doesn't skew one way or the other, but seems to naturally include bits of both - our characters aren't only interesting for their own qualities, or for their place in the story, they're both.
 
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An Ancient Solar System: ​

This week, off world: SpaceX launches Crew-5 mission to the ISS, the Sun roars fire, asteroid Ryugu's watery past and loads more...​

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This week, off world: SpaceX launches Crew-5 mission to the ISS, the Sun roars fire, asteroid Ryugu's watery past and loads more...

Here’s where you can donate to help Ukrainian refugees and war victims Pick o' the podcasts: From the video store: The Sun roars fire...
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On Flat Characters and Archetypes

I recently came across a definition for what constitutes a flat character that I quite liked. It came from EM Forster’s Aspects of the Novel and it states that flat characters are those const…
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The Shape of Fantasy: Investigating the Structure of American Heroic Epic Fantasy by Dr C Palmer-Patel

By way of introductory remarks, I’d like to state my favourite thing about Palmer-Patel’s The Shape of Fantasy is that it addreses my least favourite thing about fantasy academia. You s…
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Also I did a guest post elsewhere

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Roots of Darkness: The Horrifying Origins of Sword & Sorcery (A GrimDarkTober Guest Post by Peat Long)

This Sunday I’m thrilled to present a GrimDarkTober guest post from a book blogger who needs little introduction! One of the many awesome people I met through a Wyrd & Wonder read along,…
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