— Linda Stone, the fascinating thinker, writer, and speaker who coined the terms “continuous partial attention” and “email apnea,” has a new blog/website at lindastone.net. Little, Big is for readers from nine to ninety, because it naturalizes and renders domestic the marvelous….”. Chalker was also a Baltimore City Schools history teacher in Maryland for 12 years, retiring during 1978 to write full-time. Lisa Ellen (Gold) Ruff. Maybe what I need comes from science fiction, but maybe not. The 10-episode first season was produced by showrunner … He is best known for his work in the 1970s as editor of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, which introduced readers to many overlooked classics of the fantasy genre. Linwood Vrooman Carter was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor, poet and critic. Where I Write will be featured as eight pages in the 2009 Worldcon program guide.
Another strategy, which I learned from science-fiction writers, is to write the speculative parts of the story in such a way that they remain intriguing even if the premises on which they are based ultimately turn out to be fantasy. How did you get comfortable with telling this story?
There will be cake. I am the author of the novels Fool on The Hill (1988), Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy (1997), Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls (2003), Bad Monkeys (2007), The Mirage (2012), and Lovecraft Country (2016).. My lastest novel, 88 Names, was published in March 2020.
Explore genealogy for Matt Ruff including research + more in the free family tree community.
Lisa Gold. No, it’s not available online or on CD, though that may eventually change. Though vampire is still in use today, the last recorded OED citation for vampyre was in 1847. 01.05.05.10 endeavour
My fourth novel, Bad Monkeys, also won multiple awards; it is currently under development as a Universal Studios film, with Margot Robbie attached to star. The range includes titles by both established and new authors.
Matt Ruff is the author of two other novels, Fool on the Hill and Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls, which won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. But O do not know if I can continue. 3) What I love most about science fiction is the short fiction. (My elevator pitch was, “It’s The X-Files, if Mulder and Scully were black travel writers living in the Jim Crow era.”) His fondness for a pun is evident in the titles of his story collections such as Tales in a Jugular Vein, Such Stuff as Screams Are Made Of and Out of the Mouths of Graves.
Over the years that the award has been given, the categories presented have changed; currently World Fantasy Awards are given in five written categories, one category for artists, and four special categories for individuals to honor their general work in the field of fantasy.
My father was a Lutheran minister, originally from the Midwest.
They were first given in 1975, at the first World Fantasy Convention, and have been awarded annually since. NEW UPDATE, 11/30/10: The new OED website has launched, fully integrating the online Oxford English Dictionary with the Historical Thesaurus. I offer research, fact-checking, content development, social media, and editorial services.
And then I take what I need to make that story work.
Charles Coleman Finlay is an American science fiction and fantasy author and editor.
My goal was to tell an entertaining story that was believable and internally consistent. Much of his focus has been on dark fantasy and horror, although he does also work in science fiction and fantasy. I was absolutely appalled by the Jim Crow social norms that you have pointed out and reading. What limitations did you become aware of, during and after the process? on Lovecraft Country HBO series, based on the novel by Matt Ruff, begins Sunday, August 16th, “one of the best shows HBO has made in a long, long time.”, on “Who lives, who dies, who tells your story”, on News about The Mirage paperback, the Queen Anne Book Company, and Clarion West, on Fool on the Hill, Matt Ruff’s first novel, now an ebook, on 110th birthday of the University Book Store and more on the Espresso Book Machine, Lovecraft Country HBO series, based on the novel by Matt Ruff, begins Sunday, August 16th, “Who lives, who dies, who tells your story”, News about The Mirage paperback, the Queen Anne Book Company, and Clarion West, Fool on the Hill, Matt Ruff’s first novel, now an ebook, 110th birthday of the University Book Store and more on the Espresso Book Machine, celebrating its 110th birthday with a party and a book created for the occasion titled 110/110, ordering online any book by one of the contributors using the promo code, My previous posts on the Espresso Book Machine, People I like have been doing interesting things, Nisi and Cynthia Ward’s “Writing the Other” fiction writing workshops, December 1st from Garrison Keiller’s Writer’s Almanac, Time-traveling through the English language with the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, Where I Write: Fantasy & Science Fiction Authors in Their Creative Spaces, Cory Doctorow blogged about Kyle Cassidy’s photo project on BoingBoing, “I am drawn to borderlands and to the people who inhabit them…”, 4 Authors We Wish Would Return to Science Fiction, AP Stylebook surrenders the battle over "Web site" vs. "website", How cutting and pasting can lead to plagiarism, The Great Gatsby was published 88 years ago today but won't enter the public domain until 2021, American Ephemera series (pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers of the American Revolution), Forgotten Founders series (George Mason, John Dickinson, Thomas Paine), Review of A Birthday Cake for George Washington, ACES' 10 fact-checking tips for copy-editors, Based on a True True Story (Information is Beautiful breakdown of films), Borel's book, The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking, Buttry's tips on verifying facts and ensuring accuracy, Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning for the Digital Age, Canby's "Fact-Checking at The New Yorker", Caulfield's Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers, CJR investigative report on the Rolling Stone UVA rape article, Cognitive biases that screw up your decisions, Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics, Shin's 7 ways to make your work easy to fact-check, The Guardian's 9-point guide to spotting a dodgy statistic, YouthRadio's intro to fact-checking for journalists, AAS exhibition: The News Media and the Making of America, 1730-1865, AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History, American Archives: Documents of the American Revolution, 1774-1776, Avalon Project–Documents in Law & History, Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers at the LOC, Digital Primary Sources from American Historical Review, Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History, How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists, Library & Archival Exhibitions on the Web, Library of Congress Bibliographies, Research Guides & Finding Aids, Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America, National Museum of Play Online Collections, New York City History: NYPL Best of the Web, Sarah Werner's compendium of resources (digitized First Folios, book history), The Authentic History Center: Primary Sources from American Popular Culture, The Collation, Folger Shakespeare Library, The Historiography of the American Revolution: A Timeline, Unpaywall (legal way to read paywalled research articles for free), Victorian Literature & Culture Sites for Online Research, WATCH: Writers, Artists & Their Copyright Holders, British Library's links to selected digital facsimile sites, Directory of Web Resources for the Rare Materials Cataloger, Resources for the history of books and printing, Avoiding plagiarism: ORI Guide to Ethical Writing, Queen Anne Books, the beloved independent bookstore that, March 1st is the deadline to apply to the, Clarion West is offering a series of special. Ruff lives in Seattle with his wife, the researcher and rare book expert Lisa Gold.
Matt Ruff is the author of two other novels, Fool on the Hill and Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls, which won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award.He lives in Seattle, Washington, with his wife, Lisa Gold. Darrell Charles Schweitzer is an American writer, editor, and critic in the field of speculative fiction.
I’d take accuracy if and where I could get it, but the point was to provide food for thought, not definitive answers…. You can now buy it for Kindle or Nook, and it should soon be available for iTunes and Google Books as well.
Charles Brown of Locus told me once that I’m a science fiction writer because I think like a science fiction writer and I was enormously flattered and hope that’s true.
Fool on the Hill, Matt‘s beloved first novel, is finally available as an ebook.
Lisa Gold: Research Maven I’m thrilled to announce that the Lovecraft Country tv show, based on the 2016 novel by my husband Matt Ruff, will begin airing on HBO and HBO Max on Sunday, August 16th.
Stan Robinson says we all live in a science fiction novel now and it’s clearly true. Comments Off on Matt Ruff’s new website and blog. [2] From third to eighth grade, Ruff attended a parochial school. Here’s Cassidy’s photograph of Michael Swanwick: This reminded me of Eamonn McCabe’s photographs for The Guardian’s Writers’ Rooms series, though his are of the rooms without their writers. His second book Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy is postcyberpunk.
Werewolves trace all the way back to the Old English werewulf, lycanthrope was first cited in 1813 and is still in use, but the more poetic turnskin entered the language in 1831 and exited forty years later. Ruff's first novel, Fool on the Hill , is a fantasy that drew on his experiences living in Risley Residential College at Cornell. Fantasy writers may unearth ideas in forgotten names or descriptions of supernatural beings and mythical creatures. — Justine Larbalestier came to Seattle on book tour for her new novel, Liar, and we spent an enjoyable evening with her and Ted Chiang. He said: “So perpetually fresh is this book, changing each time I reread it, that I find it virtually impossible to describe, and scarcely can summarize it. I do creative research for writers of fiction and nonfiction. The Mirage is an alternate history novel by Matt Ruff, published in 2012 by Harper. Matt Ruff I was born in New York City in 1965. Posted in Books, ebooks, Matt Ruff, Seattle. In all my novels, there is an ironic and distanced narrator who knows a lot more than the characters about their past and future.
— Linda Stone, the fascinating thinker, writer, and speaker who coined the terms “continuous partial attention” and “email apnea,” has a new blog/website at lindastone.net. Little, Big is for readers from nine to ninety, because it naturalizes and renders domestic the marvelous….”. Chalker was also a Baltimore City Schools history teacher in Maryland for 12 years, retiring during 1978 to write full-time. Lisa Ellen (Gold) Ruff. Maybe what I need comes from science fiction, but maybe not. The 10-episode first season was produced by showrunner … He is best known for his work in the 1970s as editor of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, which introduced readers to many overlooked classics of the fantasy genre. Linwood Vrooman Carter was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor, poet and critic. Where I Write will be featured as eight pages in the 2009 Worldcon program guide.
Another strategy, which I learned from science-fiction writers, is to write the speculative parts of the story in such a way that they remain intriguing even if the premises on which they are based ultimately turn out to be fantasy. How did you get comfortable with telling this story?
There will be cake. I am the author of the novels Fool on The Hill (1988), Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy (1997), Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls (2003), Bad Monkeys (2007), The Mirage (2012), and Lovecraft Country (2016).. My lastest novel, 88 Names, was published in March 2020.
Explore genealogy for Matt Ruff including research + more in the free family tree community.
Lisa Gold. No, it’s not available online or on CD, though that may eventually change. Though vampire is still in use today, the last recorded OED citation for vampyre was in 1847. 01.05.05.10 endeavour
My fourth novel, Bad Monkeys, also won multiple awards; it is currently under development as a Universal Studios film, with Margot Robbie attached to star. The range includes titles by both established and new authors.
Matt Ruff is the author of two other novels, Fool on the Hill and Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls, which won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. But O do not know if I can continue. 3) What I love most about science fiction is the short fiction. (My elevator pitch was, “It’s The X-Files, if Mulder and Scully were black travel writers living in the Jim Crow era.”) His fondness for a pun is evident in the titles of his story collections such as Tales in a Jugular Vein, Such Stuff as Screams Are Made Of and Out of the Mouths of Graves.
Over the years that the award has been given, the categories presented have changed; currently World Fantasy Awards are given in five written categories, one category for artists, and four special categories for individuals to honor their general work in the field of fantasy.
My father was a Lutheran minister, originally from the Midwest.
They were first given in 1975, at the first World Fantasy Convention, and have been awarded annually since. NEW UPDATE, 11/30/10: The new OED website has launched, fully integrating the online Oxford English Dictionary with the Historical Thesaurus. I offer research, fact-checking, content development, social media, and editorial services.
And then I take what I need to make that story work.
Charles Coleman Finlay is an American science fiction and fantasy author and editor.
My goal was to tell an entertaining story that was believable and internally consistent. Much of his focus has been on dark fantasy and horror, although he does also work in science fiction and fantasy. I was absolutely appalled by the Jim Crow social norms that you have pointed out and reading. What limitations did you become aware of, during and after the process? on Lovecraft Country HBO series, based on the novel by Matt Ruff, begins Sunday, August 16th, “one of the best shows HBO has made in a long, long time.”, on “Who lives, who dies, who tells your story”, on News about The Mirage paperback, the Queen Anne Book Company, and Clarion West, on Fool on the Hill, Matt Ruff’s first novel, now an ebook, on 110th birthday of the University Book Store and more on the Espresso Book Machine, Lovecraft Country HBO series, based on the novel by Matt Ruff, begins Sunday, August 16th, “Who lives, who dies, who tells your story”, News about The Mirage paperback, the Queen Anne Book Company, and Clarion West, Fool on the Hill, Matt Ruff’s first novel, now an ebook, 110th birthday of the University Book Store and more on the Espresso Book Machine, celebrating its 110th birthday with a party and a book created for the occasion titled 110/110, ordering online any book by one of the contributors using the promo code, My previous posts on the Espresso Book Machine, People I like have been doing interesting things, Nisi and Cynthia Ward’s “Writing the Other” fiction writing workshops, December 1st from Garrison Keiller’s Writer’s Almanac, Time-traveling through the English language with the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, Where I Write: Fantasy & Science Fiction Authors in Their Creative Spaces, Cory Doctorow blogged about Kyle Cassidy’s photo project on BoingBoing, “I am drawn to borderlands and to the people who inhabit them…”, 4 Authors We Wish Would Return to Science Fiction, AP Stylebook surrenders the battle over "Web site" vs. "website", How cutting and pasting can lead to plagiarism, The Great Gatsby was published 88 years ago today but won't enter the public domain until 2021, American Ephemera series (pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers of the American Revolution), Forgotten Founders series (George Mason, John Dickinson, Thomas Paine), Review of A Birthday Cake for George Washington, ACES' 10 fact-checking tips for copy-editors, Based on a True True Story (Information is Beautiful breakdown of films), Borel's book, The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking, Buttry's tips on verifying facts and ensuring accuracy, Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning for the Digital Age, Canby's "Fact-Checking at The New Yorker", Caulfield's Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers, CJR investigative report on the Rolling Stone UVA rape article, Cognitive biases that screw up your decisions, Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics, Shin's 7 ways to make your work easy to fact-check, The Guardian's 9-point guide to spotting a dodgy statistic, YouthRadio's intro to fact-checking for journalists, AAS exhibition: The News Media and the Making of America, 1730-1865, AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History, American Archives: Documents of the American Revolution, 1774-1776, Avalon Project–Documents in Law & History, Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers at the LOC, Digital Primary Sources from American Historical Review, Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History, How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists, Library & Archival Exhibitions on the Web, Library of Congress Bibliographies, Research Guides & Finding Aids, Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America, National Museum of Play Online Collections, New York City History: NYPL Best of the Web, Sarah Werner's compendium of resources (digitized First Folios, book history), The Authentic History Center: Primary Sources from American Popular Culture, The Collation, Folger Shakespeare Library, The Historiography of the American Revolution: A Timeline, Unpaywall (legal way to read paywalled research articles for free), Victorian Literature & Culture Sites for Online Research, WATCH: Writers, Artists & Their Copyright Holders, British Library's links to selected digital facsimile sites, Directory of Web Resources for the Rare Materials Cataloger, Resources for the history of books and printing, Avoiding plagiarism: ORI Guide to Ethical Writing, Queen Anne Books, the beloved independent bookstore that, March 1st is the deadline to apply to the, Clarion West is offering a series of special. Ruff lives in Seattle with his wife, the researcher and rare book expert Lisa Gold.
Matt Ruff is the author of two other novels, Fool on the Hill and Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls, which won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award.He lives in Seattle, Washington, with his wife, Lisa Gold. Darrell Charles Schweitzer is an American writer, editor, and critic in the field of speculative fiction.
I’d take accuracy if and where I could get it, but the point was to provide food for thought, not definitive answers…. You can now buy it for Kindle or Nook, and it should soon be available for iTunes and Google Books as well.
Charles Brown of Locus told me once that I’m a science fiction writer because I think like a science fiction writer and I was enormously flattered and hope that’s true.
Fool on the Hill, Matt‘s beloved first novel, is finally available as an ebook.
Lisa Gold: Research Maven I’m thrilled to announce that the Lovecraft Country tv show, based on the 2016 novel by my husband Matt Ruff, will begin airing on HBO and HBO Max on Sunday, August 16th.
Stan Robinson says we all live in a science fiction novel now and it’s clearly true. Comments Off on Matt Ruff’s new website and blog. [2] From third to eighth grade, Ruff attended a parochial school. Here’s Cassidy’s photograph of Michael Swanwick: This reminded me of Eamonn McCabe’s photographs for The Guardian’s Writers’ Rooms series, though his are of the rooms without their writers. His second book Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy is postcyberpunk.
Werewolves trace all the way back to the Old English werewulf, lycanthrope was first cited in 1813 and is still in use, but the more poetic turnskin entered the language in 1831 and exited forty years later. Ruff's first novel, Fool on the Hill , is a fantasy that drew on his experiences living in Risley Residential College at Cornell. Fantasy writers may unearth ideas in forgotten names or descriptions of supernatural beings and mythical creatures. — Justine Larbalestier came to Seattle on book tour for her new novel, Liar, and we spent an enjoyable evening with her and Ted Chiang. He said: “So perpetually fresh is this book, changing each time I reread it, that I find it virtually impossible to describe, and scarcely can summarize it. I do creative research for writers of fiction and nonfiction. The Mirage is an alternate history novel by Matt Ruff, published in 2012 by Harper. Matt Ruff I was born in New York City in 1965. Posted in Books, ebooks, Matt Ruff, Seattle. In all my novels, there is an ironic and distanced narrator who knows a lot more than the characters about their past and future.
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Nothing worse than that. Periodically I’d set aside what I’d written and start the whole thing over again". He spent his childhood and adolescence learning how to tell stories. Jack Laurence Chalker was an American science fiction author. So I guess what this all adds up to is: who gives a shit about labels? My third novel, Set This House in Order, marked a critical turning point in my career after it won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, a Washington State Book Award, and a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, and helped me secure a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
— Linda Stone, the fascinating thinker, writer, and speaker who coined the terms “continuous partial attention” and “email apnea,” has a new blog/website at lindastone.net. Little, Big is for readers from nine to ninety, because it naturalizes and renders domestic the marvelous….”. Chalker was also a Baltimore City Schools history teacher in Maryland for 12 years, retiring during 1978 to write full-time. Lisa Ellen (Gold) Ruff. Maybe what I need comes from science fiction, but maybe not. The 10-episode first season was produced by showrunner … He is best known for his work in the 1970s as editor of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, which introduced readers to many overlooked classics of the fantasy genre. Linwood Vrooman Carter was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor, poet and critic. Where I Write will be featured as eight pages in the 2009 Worldcon program guide.
Another strategy, which I learned from science-fiction writers, is to write the speculative parts of the story in such a way that they remain intriguing even if the premises on which they are based ultimately turn out to be fantasy. How did you get comfortable with telling this story?
There will be cake. I am the author of the novels Fool on The Hill (1988), Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy (1997), Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls (2003), Bad Monkeys (2007), The Mirage (2012), and Lovecraft Country (2016).. My lastest novel, 88 Names, was published in March 2020.
Explore genealogy for Matt Ruff including research + more in the free family tree community.
Lisa Gold. No, it’s not available online or on CD, though that may eventually change. Though vampire is still in use today, the last recorded OED citation for vampyre was in 1847. 01.05.05.10 endeavour
My fourth novel, Bad Monkeys, also won multiple awards; it is currently under development as a Universal Studios film, with Margot Robbie attached to star. The range includes titles by both established and new authors.
Matt Ruff is the author of two other novels, Fool on the Hill and Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls, which won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. But O do not know if I can continue. 3) What I love most about science fiction is the short fiction. (My elevator pitch was, “It’s The X-Files, if Mulder and Scully were black travel writers living in the Jim Crow era.”) His fondness for a pun is evident in the titles of his story collections such as Tales in a Jugular Vein, Such Stuff as Screams Are Made Of and Out of the Mouths of Graves.
Over the years that the award has been given, the categories presented have changed; currently World Fantasy Awards are given in five written categories, one category for artists, and four special categories for individuals to honor their general work in the field of fantasy.
My father was a Lutheran minister, originally from the Midwest.
They were first given in 1975, at the first World Fantasy Convention, and have been awarded annually since. NEW UPDATE, 11/30/10: The new OED website has launched, fully integrating the online Oxford English Dictionary with the Historical Thesaurus. I offer research, fact-checking, content development, social media, and editorial services.
And then I take what I need to make that story work.
Charles Coleman Finlay is an American science fiction and fantasy author and editor.
My goal was to tell an entertaining story that was believable and internally consistent. Much of his focus has been on dark fantasy and horror, although he does also work in science fiction and fantasy. I was absolutely appalled by the Jim Crow social norms that you have pointed out and reading. What limitations did you become aware of, during and after the process? on Lovecraft Country HBO series, based on the novel by Matt Ruff, begins Sunday, August 16th, “one of the best shows HBO has made in a long, long time.”, on “Who lives, who dies, who tells your story”, on News about The Mirage paperback, the Queen Anne Book Company, and Clarion West, on Fool on the Hill, Matt Ruff’s first novel, now an ebook, on 110th birthday of the University Book Store and more on the Espresso Book Machine, Lovecraft Country HBO series, based on the novel by Matt Ruff, begins Sunday, August 16th, “Who lives, who dies, who tells your story”, News about The Mirage paperback, the Queen Anne Book Company, and Clarion West, Fool on the Hill, Matt Ruff’s first novel, now an ebook, 110th birthday of the University Book Store and more on the Espresso Book Machine, celebrating its 110th birthday with a party and a book created for the occasion titled 110/110, ordering online any book by one of the contributors using the promo code, My previous posts on the Espresso Book Machine, People I like have been doing interesting things, Nisi and Cynthia Ward’s “Writing the Other” fiction writing workshops, December 1st from Garrison Keiller’s Writer’s Almanac, Time-traveling through the English language with the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, Where I Write: Fantasy & Science Fiction Authors in Their Creative Spaces, Cory Doctorow blogged about Kyle Cassidy’s photo project on BoingBoing, “I am drawn to borderlands and to the people who inhabit them…”, 4 Authors We Wish Would Return to Science Fiction, AP Stylebook surrenders the battle over "Web site" vs. "website", How cutting and pasting can lead to plagiarism, The Great Gatsby was published 88 years ago today but won't enter the public domain until 2021, American Ephemera series (pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers of the American Revolution), Forgotten Founders series (George Mason, John Dickinson, Thomas Paine), Review of A Birthday Cake for George Washington, ACES' 10 fact-checking tips for copy-editors, Based on a True True Story (Information is Beautiful breakdown of films), Borel's book, The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking, Buttry's tips on verifying facts and ensuring accuracy, Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning for the Digital Age, Canby's "Fact-Checking at The New Yorker", Caulfield's Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers, CJR investigative report on the Rolling Stone UVA rape article, Cognitive biases that screw up your decisions, Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics, Shin's 7 ways to make your work easy to fact-check, The Guardian's 9-point guide to spotting a dodgy statistic, YouthRadio's intro to fact-checking for journalists, AAS exhibition: The News Media and the Making of America, 1730-1865, AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History, American Archives: Documents of the American Revolution, 1774-1776, Avalon Project–Documents in Law & History, Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers at the LOC, Digital Primary Sources from American Historical Review, Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History, How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists, Library & Archival Exhibitions on the Web, Library of Congress Bibliographies, Research Guides & Finding Aids, Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America, National Museum of Play Online Collections, New York City History: NYPL Best of the Web, Sarah Werner's compendium of resources (digitized First Folios, book history), The Authentic History Center: Primary Sources from American Popular Culture, The Collation, Folger Shakespeare Library, The Historiography of the American Revolution: A Timeline, Unpaywall (legal way to read paywalled research articles for free), Victorian Literature & Culture Sites for Online Research, WATCH: Writers, Artists & Their Copyright Holders, British Library's links to selected digital facsimile sites, Directory of Web Resources for the Rare Materials Cataloger, Resources for the history of books and printing, Avoiding plagiarism: ORI Guide to Ethical Writing, Queen Anne Books, the beloved independent bookstore that, March 1st is the deadline to apply to the, Clarion West is offering a series of special. Ruff lives in Seattle with his wife, the researcher and rare book expert Lisa Gold.
Matt Ruff is the author of two other novels, Fool on the Hill and Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls, which won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award.He lives in Seattle, Washington, with his wife, Lisa Gold. Darrell Charles Schweitzer is an American writer, editor, and critic in the field of speculative fiction.
I’d take accuracy if and where I could get it, but the point was to provide food for thought, not definitive answers…. You can now buy it for Kindle or Nook, and it should soon be available for iTunes and Google Books as well.
Charles Brown of Locus told me once that I’m a science fiction writer because I think like a science fiction writer and I was enormously flattered and hope that’s true.
Fool on the Hill, Matt‘s beloved first novel, is finally available as an ebook.
Lisa Gold: Research Maven I’m thrilled to announce that the Lovecraft Country tv show, based on the 2016 novel by my husband Matt Ruff, will begin airing on HBO and HBO Max on Sunday, August 16th.
Stan Robinson says we all live in a science fiction novel now and it’s clearly true. Comments Off on Matt Ruff’s new website and blog. [2] From third to eighth grade, Ruff attended a parochial school. Here’s Cassidy’s photograph of Michael Swanwick: This reminded me of Eamonn McCabe’s photographs for The Guardian’s Writers’ Rooms series, though his are of the rooms without their writers. His second book Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy is postcyberpunk.
Werewolves trace all the way back to the Old English werewulf, lycanthrope was first cited in 1813 and is still in use, but the more poetic turnskin entered the language in 1831 and exited forty years later. Ruff's first novel, Fool on the Hill , is a fantasy that drew on his experiences living in Risley Residential College at Cornell. Fantasy writers may unearth ideas in forgotten names or descriptions of supernatural beings and mythical creatures. — Justine Larbalestier came to Seattle on book tour for her new novel, Liar, and we spent an enjoyable evening with her and Ted Chiang. He said: “So perpetually fresh is this book, changing each time I reread it, that I find it virtually impossible to describe, and scarcely can summarize it. I do creative research for writers of fiction and nonfiction. The Mirage is an alternate history novel by Matt Ruff, published in 2012 by Harper. Matt Ruff I was born in New York City in 1965. Posted in Books, ebooks, Matt Ruff, Seattle. In all my novels, there is an ironic and distanced narrator who knows a lot more than the characters about their past and future.
