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Resurrecting The Dying Earth

April 13th, 2010 · 6 Comments

Originally, this article appeared in slightly different formats on Speculative Horizons, and later on Jeff VanderMeer’s blog as a guest post. I’ve many more readers than I had last year, so wanted to share what is one of my favourite sub-genres of Science Fiction and Fantasy. — You can’t move in Hollywood for people clutching [...]

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Kowloon Walled City

March 25th, 2010 · 4 Comments

(Via DirJournal.) Here’s material for a novel. Kowloon Walled City, once a military installation in Hong Kong. After World War II, the Walled City descended into a tightly packed and ungoverned zone, a pirate enclave. It was demolished in 1994, and a park now exists in its place. By the end of 1970s Walled City [...]

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Sanzhi UFO Houses

January 31st, 2010 · 2 Comments

From the Taipei Times: “First of all, the site is definitely not haunted,” Lin said, in reference to oft-heard rumors that many people have seen ghosts near the complex or the high number of unexplained traffic accidents on the nearby road. There were also rumors that more than 20,000 skeletons were discovered at the site [...]

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