Catherine McLean
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“Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.”
― The Farthest Shore
― The Farthest Shore
Sci-fi Women
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A discussion of women in literary science fiction.
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