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Bookshelf: Airships of Camelot

Airships of Camelot is Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan meets The Once and Future King. Like Leviathan, Airships is likely to get called “Steampunk,” though that category fits loosely at best.  In some ways, this retelling of the Arthur story has more … Continue reading

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Bookshelf: Verisimilitude

Deren Hansen’s Verisimilitude: How Illusions, Confidence Games, and Skillful Lying can Improve Your Fiction is a pithy and readable guide to improving your writing.  It’s ostensibly about writing fiction, but in fact I think a lot of the advice is applicable … Continue reading

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