RAY BRADBURY REVEALS FAHRENHEIT 451 ORIGINS
Iconic author Ray Bradbury and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner talk with LATimes.com blogger Geoff Boucher (Hero Complex) about how TV and radio inspired Fahrenheit 451, the connection between the novel and Playboy magazine and why Bradbury thinks of himself as a “pomegranate.”
Watch Ray Bradbury give a introspective and humorous interview, about how he still writes everyday and tells one very important message “Knowledge should be free“.
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STEAMPUNK ARCHETYPES
As a costumer, I’ve always been drawn to opportunities to do my own characters instead of re-creating characters from books or movies. When I started to dress in the steampunk mode, I found it enticingly open. Rather than the expectation that you were Captain Nemo or Artemus Gordon, you could be a new character of your own devising. It delighted and inspired myself and others to find that we didn’t have to be characters from someone else’s imagination, but could make it up ourselves.
As I began dressing up for steampunk events, I realized that one of the best ways to go about creating a look was to start from one of the known steampunk archetypes. An archetype, or reccurring character, is one that people will recognize fairly quickly even though it isn’t someone they can name.
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WHAT MAKES A GENRE?
Daniel Abraham recently put up a long and fascinating post regarding what defines a genre– any genre, from Westerns to Romance to Science fiction. And, frankly, he’s someone who knows a little something about what it means to work in a different genre since he is a wearer of many hats professionally.
Daniel is the author of the critically acclaimed epic fantasy series The Long Price Quartet and the upcoming The Dragon’s Path as well as the urban fantasist MLN Hanover (author of The Black Sun’s Daughter series) and one half of James S.A. Corey, author of the upcoming space opera Leviathan Wakes. Like I said– he knows genre.
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DRACULAS: VAMPIRES ARE NOT NICE
Sometimes the only way to restore a little sanity is to go completely insane.
That’s what Durango author Blake Crouch and three fellow thriller/horror novelists did with their collaborative e-book Draculas, which was released Tuesday on Amazon just in time for Halloween. Think of Draculas as the anti-Twilight. These vampires are not teen heartthrobs, but rather a collection of the most vicious, bloodthirsty monsters you’d never want to meet.
Each author – Crouch, Chicago’s Jack Kilborn (which is one of Joe Konrath’s pen names), Florida’s Jeff Strand and New Jersey’s F. Paul Wilson – adopted a character or two and wrote point-of-view chapters. They used the Dropbox software program that allowed each to submit their chapters instantly and Crouch said the process was much easier than it sounds.
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SCARY IS GOOD
I lean toward the darker side of the gothic equation — in The Monk, it’s a demonic world of monks, nuns, lust, and shadowy corridors.
No wonder that book was a big hit in in the late 1700s and established a popular readership for the scary stuff. Not that novels like The Castle of Otranto didn’t establish that most readers love digging into moldering castles, scandalous behavior and the grip of the supernatural.
As someone who’s written a lot of horror and fantasy fiction, I go back to the origins of supernatural fiction — often. And whether it’s Rebecca — which on one level is a tale of a psychological haunting — or Dracula, I’m there.
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