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Harrison’s 2024 Year in Books
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The Venetian explorer Marco Polo met Kublai Khan, the first emperor of the Yuan dynasty of China, in the 1270's. Kublai Khan was impressed with Marco Polo and made him foreign emissary, after which Marco Polo traveled throughout his empire for years. Italo Calvino's quirkly 1972 novel Invisible Cities imagines Marco Polo's descriptions of the cities he finds and the conversations between the two d
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| John Wyndham was a mid-twentieth century author who, to my mind, follows in the tradition of literate English science fiction writers like H.G. Wells and Olaf Stapledon. I'd only read his The Day of the Triffids before and liked it very much, althoug ...more | |
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| This was required reading for a novel revision workshop I recently took. While it sets out a decent framework for revision, it was very disorganized, looping back on itself repeatedly and expounding about terms as a setup to defining them. It could a ...more | |
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Story Fix: Transform Your Novel from Broken to Brilliant:
"JFC! Okay, your novel sucks either in the value of its story or in the execution of its story. This could have been a 40 page pamphlet were it not for the seemingly endless and gratuitous analogies. "
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| Han Kang's The Vegetarian focuses on Yeong-hye, who decides to become a vegetarian after a dream, although exactly why isn't clear. Her story is told in three novellas, each from a different point of view, starting with her callous husband, then her ...more | |
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