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I just like saying "umpty-bajillion."
Via
officialgaiman, this website (run by a female grad student writing her MA thesis on Mirrlees, yays!) collects scads of information about Hope Mirrlees, including the full text of her first novel, Madeleine: One of Love's Jansenists. I don't even know what a Jansenist is. For that matter, I had to make a special trip to the library to find a dictionary that could tell me the adjectival form of "John" today (for the record: Johannite). I may or may not have bought what seems to be the last used copy of Michael Swanwick's monograph Hope-in-the-Mist on the internet as a direct consequence of these things. I may or may not be officially obsessed with Hope Mirrlees now.
Also, 2010 will see the inauguration of the Tanabata Wishes fanfiction exchange, a Yuletide-style challenge centered around small East Asian fandoms. More details can be found at
tanzaku, the main LJ community, and at
tanabata_admin. Fic will be hosted on the AO3; this post by
pyrefly on integrating Tanabata with
dark_agenda is also worth specific consideration. ETA: follow the admin community here on DW with
tanabata_admin_lj_feed, thanks to
elke_tanzer. /ETA
Finally, June 2010 will see Lightspeed Magazine open for business. As editor Sean Wallace notes in this post at his LJ (
oldcharliebrown), LM does not have author quotas, but it does seek a diverse population of writers to match its diverse audience of science fiction readers (and the same can be said for the other publication he co-edits, Fantasy Magazine). For all these reasons, I encourage writers of all backgrounds who've been thinking of sending science fiction and fantasy stories on the rounds to submit to these two magazines (full disclosure: I read slush for FM).
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Date: 2010-01-12 00:54 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-12 00:58 (UTC)I made a feed...
Date: 2010-01-12 07:39 (UTC):-)
Re: I made a feed...
Date: 2010-01-12 21:24 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-11 23:24 (UTC)ETA: Or the key point may be the Jansenist idea (taken from Augustine) that the human will is innately corrupt and tends naturally towards evil rather than good.
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Date: 2010-01-11 23:47 (UTC)