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Author Archives: Justina Robson
Quantum Gravity Re-Launch USA is a GO for September!
Finally, I’ve set the date after some hassles and delays beyond all control and it is – 13th September 2019. That’s when Keeping It Real will re-launch as ebook and paperback in the USA. Hurrah! It will soon be followed … Continue reading
Valuing Books
Some thinking about what books are. I forgot I never finished this post from ages ago, so today I finished it. When we say ‘value’ it’s often the case that we mean monetary value. But the value of a book, … Continue reading
The Wish List: reading
The more I read the more I realise how much of what I think of the story or book is down to the expectations I had in the first place. Not only expectations, but hopes and lingering wishes and not-explored-but-still-there … Continue reading
To Say Nothing
After the unsurprising reversion of my blogging from daily to occasionally here’s the thing: I’ve gone from wanting to have my say on things to wanting to say nothing, from being in the chair to wanting never to be in … Continue reading
Virtual Reality
Storytelling, in particular the absorption of a story through a book or novel form, is the most powerful virtual reality that there is, even including technologies which offer full sensory immersion. The reason for this is that a reader involves … Continue reading
Racism and the well-meaning white novelist
Recently I had a brief exchange on twitter with another writer about structural racism in novels – in particular stereotypes and tropes which are included, deliberately or not, in stories written by white people which include minority characters. The discussion … Continue reading
Star Ratings
I used to spend ages pondering what star rating to give to various things, particularly books, particularly when I felt conspicuous by being a published writer whose platform was therefore a bit weightier to some people’s minds. I also thought … Continue reading
Mere
“Godless mysticism cannot escape the finality of tragedy, or make beauty eternal. It does not dissolve inner conflict into the false quietude of any oceanic calm. All it offers is mere being. There is no redemption from being human. But … Continue reading
Lost
Sometimes it’s good to be lost. It’s a bit less good when you lose things that are important. I’ve lost track of my non-fiction work and am presently working on collating its references and searching out its texts. Somewhere in … Continue reading