Tag: John Grant
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Yesterday Today:
SF’s Roots on View at Milford FestivalMy previous post concluded with mention of the grand finale at this year’s Milford Readers and Writers Festival and the promise of a follow up post. Here, then, are some of the talking points from our three-hour program at the Milford Theatre, a conversation that considered how science fiction came of age in Milford during the…
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Bi-Coastal Weekend: Stories & Nightmares
Writers do most their traveling at home. It’s inward travel, exploring memory and imagination in the creation of stories that might one day enter the real world as published stuff. But sometimes the draw of outside events cuts through the reverie, and that’s the way it was last weekend when I had writing-related gigs popping on…
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Big Things Cooking in September:
Milford Writers & Son of MonsterpaloozaBig things are brewing this month, with the Milford Readers and Writers Festival on the east coast and Son of Monsterpalooze on the west – both on the same weekend (September 15-17) and 3,000 miles apart. Makes me wish I had a teleporter. Nevertheless, despite the distance and the impossibility of two places at once,…
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Celebrating the Roots of the Genre:
Pennsylvania’s Place in SF HistoryNext month, I’ll be helping celebrate the roots of modern science fiction by heading east to Milford, Pennsylvania, where some of the genre’s biggest names helped establish sf as we know it today. It’s an exciting history that will be commemorated on September 15-17 at The Milford Readers and Writers Festival. I’ll be attending as…