The Making of the Representative for Planet 3

11 Oct 2007

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Doris Lessing just won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Well, how about that? Apparently the rumors that her SF output had killed her chances were either exaggerated or dated.

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William Shunn

Hugo and Nebula Award nominee. Creator of Proper Manuscript Format, Spelling Bee Solver, Tylogram, and more. Banned in Canada.

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Memoir

Finalist for the 2015 Association for Mormon Letters Awards

I was very pleasantly surprised to wake up this morning and discover that The Accidental Terrorist is a finalist for the 2015 Association for Mormon Letters Award in Creative Non-Fiction. Okay, it would have been more accurate to say that you could have knocked me over with a feather. The

01 Feb 2016

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By: William Shunn

Gene Wolfe

In the Marvelous Mind of Gene Wolfe

I had no idea what to expect when I arrived at the Sanfilippo Estate last Saturday afternoon. I certainly didn't expect to feel as if I were literally walking into the mind of Gene Wolfe, but that's what it was like. The occasion was an evening

19 Mar 2012

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By: William Shunn

Awards

Hugo Props for Electric Velocipede

I'm a little startled every year to see how many people I know well show up on the Hugo ballot. Congratulations to you all, Charlie, Paolo, Cory, Toby, and everyone else! But I want to give an extra huge shout-out to John Klima, whose excellent Electric Velocipede receives

20 Mar 2009

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By: William Shunn

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The Yiddish Policemen's Other Union

█████ and I had a memorable weekend in Austin, Texas. We were there, of course, for the Nebula Awards Weekend, but we spent Friday evening out with local friends—expatriate New Yorkers and repatriated Texans. This was a very good thing, we later decided, since █████ was forced to deal with a

30 Apr 2008

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By: William Shunn

The Making of the Representative for Planet 3

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Finalist for the 2015 Association for Mormon Letters Awards

In the Marvelous Mind of Gene Wolfe

Hugo Props for Electric Velocipede

The Yiddish Policemen's Other Union

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