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by cpound 5y ago
I can think of a couple of reasons the author of this article might say "Giambattista Basile ... was certainly not writing for children." One is that Basile's use of language is just visibly more complex than Perrault--Mother
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by cpound 5y ago
Thanks for posting this--a few weeks ago, I also read Robert Loerzel's article "The Great Chicago Fire, As Told By Those Who Lived Through It" in Chicago Magazine and found it riveting: https://www.chicagomag.com&#
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by cpound 6y ago
I'm glad to see this on HN. Francis Godwin's story is worth a read for anyone interested in the history of science fiction. The part about using geese to fly to the moon is fun, but it undersells Godwin's scientific imaginati
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by cpound 6y ago
I can't help with Analog, but we're in a golden age of free SF online. My vague feeling is Clarkesworld[0] may be most similar to Analog's editorial POV, and RocketStackRank[1] provides an overview of what several other SFWA-
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by cpound 6y ago
My favorite story from this site is a fantasy advice column--Sophie Wereley's "Unconventional Advice for the Discerning Reader": https://dailysciencefiction.com/fantasy/modern-fantasy/sophi... I als
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by cpound 7y ago
I agree, and I'd also recommend Vajra Chandrasekera's story that responds to it and reframes it in postcolonial terms: "The Negation of the Negation of the Negation" ( http://www.bigecho.org/the-negation-
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by cpound 7y ago
In the 'travel essay' genre, Xavier de Maistre's "A Journey Round My Room" https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/a-journey-round-m...