Author: Lawrence C. Connolly
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More from Milford Fest: Live and In Person.
In an age when professional magazines are inundated with computer-generated submissions and screen actors can be replaced by CG doppelgangers, there are still activities that remain exclusively in the human domain. I’m referring to in-person events. You can try and simulate them with Zoom and Facetime, but there’s nothing like the real thing, and I…
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Milford: Authors, The Anchorage, and Arrowhead
Around the world, the town of Milford in eastern Pennsylvania is famous for its role in the development of science fiction. Isaac Asimov, Damon Knight, Kurt Vonnegut, Harlan Ellison, Gene Wolfe, James Blish, Virginia Kidd, and Anne McCaffrey are just a few of the luminaries who have traveled to Milford to be part of the…
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Forward into the Past: Milford Writers Festival
Eliot … crashed a convention of science-fiction writers in a motel in Milford, Pennsylvania …. “I love you sons of bitches,” Eliot said …. “You’re all I read any more. You’re the only ones who’ll talk about the really terrific changes going on, the only ones crazy enough to know that life is a space…
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Ten Years After: The Veins Cycle
Out of the Past Today’s throwback post revisits a blog tour from September 2014. Promoting the upcoming release of Vortex, the third book in the Veins Cycle, the tour featured posts written for other websites. The first installment was a Proustian interview with the Veins Cycle’s central protagonist–a troubled young man with strange dreams and…
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The Virtual Real
Bending reality. I am inspired by the curvature of space. Not necessarily by the physics that Einstein postulated early in the 20th century, but in a more personal way. There is something in each of us that allows (and sometimes forces) us to bend the hard-edged realities that make up our daily lives. Surely you’ve…
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Out of the Past
Since this blog site underwent a redesign last summer, I’ve meant to go back through its 1000+ entries to check for broken links and configuration errors. I finally got around to it this week, working chronologically through a decade of past entries in a process akin to time travel. Turns out, things are in pretty…