- Bodhisattva Collection: Articles, Rants, and Manifestos of Interest -
This is just my ever expanding list of articles, rants, raves, or manifestos by various authors, critics, or anyone really, as long as I think it’s interesting. If you have one to recommend, I’d greatly appreciate it and would consider adding it. Good reading whether you agree or not with the authors, so check them out:
-’On Thud and Blunder’ by Poul Anderson
-’Why Fantasy and Why Now?’ by R. Scott Bakker
-’Politics in Fantasy Redux’ by R. Scott Bakker
‘The Skeptical Fantasist: In Defense of an Oxymoron’ by R. Scott Bakker
-’Notes Towards a Sort of Supreme Fiction’ by Christopher Barzak
‘The Real History of Space’ by Gregory Benford
-’Could 35 Million Book Buyers be Wrong? Yes.’ by Harold Bloom
-’Dumbing Down American Readers’ by Harold Bloom
-’J.R.R Tolkien– Enemy of Progress’ by David Brin
-’How SF lost the Space Race’ by Keith Brooke
-’No Faith in the Force’ by Orson Scott Card
-”A Woman of Valor’ by Michael Chabon
-‘Fantastic Reality’ by Matthew Cheney
-’The Old Equations’ by Matthew Cheney
-’Minor Futurism: Where SFF is Headed’ by Gabe Chouinard
-’Where Epic Fantasy Went Wrong’ by Gabe Chouinard
-‘New Weird: I Think We’re the Scene’ by Michael Cisco
-’In Defense of Science Fiction ‘ by John Clute
-’About Five Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Words’ by Samuel Delany
-’Petals of the Rat: loose notes for a new movement’ by Alan DeNiro
-’Philip K. Dick - How To Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later’ by Philip K. Dick
-’A Modernist Prometheus’ by Hal Duncan
-’Duh, Tell Us About The Rabbits, George’ by Hal Duncan
‘The Latest Teacup Tempest’ by Hal Duncan
-’In the Ghetto’ by Hal Duncan
-’Why Do I Infernokrush?’ by Hal Duncan
-’A Report on the Origins & Hazardous Effects of Miracle Ingredient A’ by Greg Egan
-’RIBOFUNK: The Manifesto’ by Paul di Filippo
-’Gulliver Unravels: Generic Fantasy and the Loss of Subversion’ by John Grant
-’What It Might Be Like to Live in Viriconium’ by M. John Harrison
-’Climbing To Viriconium’ by Rhys Hughes
-’If on a Winter’s Night a Writer’ by Rhys Hughes
-’Creating the Innocent Killer’ by John Kessel
-’On the Origins of Genre’ by Paul Kincaid
-’Fear of Fiction: Campbell’s World and Other Obsolete Paradigms’ by Claude Lalumière
-’A Message About Messages’ by Ursula Le Guin
-’A Whitewashed Earthsea’ by Ursula Le Guin
-’The Squandered Promise of Science Fiction’ by Jonathan Lethem
-’Supernatural Horror in Literature’ by H.P. Lovecraft
-’Science Fiction after the Future Went Away’ by Ken Macleod
-’Please Kill Me: Collecting the Collections’ by Nick Mamatas
-’Beyond the Tolkienesque Fairyland We Know’ by China Mieville
-’This Much I Know’ by China Mieville
-’Epic Pooh’ by Michael Moorcock
-’Fantastic Metropolis: Christmas Editorial’ by Michael Moorcock
An Excellence of Peake’ by Michael Moorcock
-’Queen of the Martian Mysteries’ by Michael Moorcock (Leigh Bracket appreciation)
-’Starship Stormtroopers’ by Michael Moorcock
-’The Darkside of Narnia’ by Philip Pullman
-’A Transrealist Manifesto’ by Rudy Rucker
-’Everyone in Japan Has Heard of Him’ by Phillip Shabecoff
-’Turn On, Tune In, Veg Out’ by Neal Stephenson
-’Cyberpunk in the 90’s by Bruce Sterling
-’Slip Stream’ by Bruce Sterling
‘Sprinting the Marathon’ by Karen Traviss
-’On Building A Fantastical City’ by Jeff VanderMeer
-’Politics in Fantasy’ by Jeff VanderMeer
-’The Romantic Underground’ by Jeff VanderMeer
-’Release the Kraken! - I Am A Fantasy Writer’ by Catherynne M. Valente
-’The Best Introduction to the Mountains’ by Gene Wolfe
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