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A Matter Of Oaths | Performative Utterance
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Just another WordPress.com site. Performative utterance — a users guide. Sarah Hall Interviewed 2009 →. A Matter Of Oaths. July 17, 2011. Had Helen Wright’s only published novel A Matter Of Oaths. Appeared a couple of years after its 1988 publication it might have been seen as a significant contributor to the early 90s British SF and in particular Space Opera resurgence. Instead it seems to have disappeared almost unnoticed. The strengths of Wright’s novel paradoxically are partly in its very famil...
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A Sense Of Shadow — Kate Wilhelm | Performative Utterance
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Just another WordPress.com site. Performative utterance — a users guide. The Silver Wind – Nina Allan. Mary Diana Dods →. A Sense Of Shadow — Kate Wilhelm. October 7, 2013. Frequently in Kate Wilhelm’s best fiction memories and dreams become entwined with and are influenced beyond the norm by the protagonist’s social environment. The reader familiar with these stories will recognise much in A Sense Of Shadow. Froelich’s theories are the SF element here, there is brief discussion of chemical process...
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Performative Utterance | Just another WordPress.com site | Page 2
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Just another WordPress.com site. Performative utterance — a users guide. Newer posts →. The Top Albums of 2015 part 1 (20-11). December 11, 2015. I’ve been to a fair few great gigs this year, seen some of my favourite artists and some great new ones too. I wasn’t so sure how much I’d kept up with new albums though. Then I made a list, seems I did have a lot of great albums to consider. There were a few I almost missed too. I just discovered that Rachel Grimes. 20= Songhoy Blues – s/t. Saw this trio at Fe...
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BREED – K T Davies (Fox Spirit) | Performative Utterance
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Just another WordPress.com site. Performative utterance — a users guide. Josephine Saxton →. BREED – K T Davies (Fox Spirit). March 30, 2015. KT Davies’ second novel is foetid with ordure and miasma and Davies revels in it. Breed. Is a fantasy novel,. A Novel of the Fantastical. As the cover has it, but as the eponymous Breed curses inventively through sewers, dragon vomit and worse, the first author that comes to mind is Iain M Banks and scenes in Consider Phlebas. KT Davies first novel The. Review of l...
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Jessica Hopper — The First Book Of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic | Performative Utterance
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Just another WordPress.com site. Performative utterance — a users guide. Bathymetry album review →. Jessica Hopper — The First Book Of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic. June 14, 2015. The thing about critical assessment of criticism is the near inevitable meta nature of it, the way our response is both a response to the critic. The pieces collected in the admittedly hyperbolic, misnamed but justified banner raising The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic. Hopper revisits ...
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Mary Diana Dods | Performative Utterance
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Just another WordPress.com site. Performative utterance — a users guide. A Sense Of Shadow — Kate Wilhelm. Notes From Elsewhere →. March 8, 2014. Mary Diana Dods was a footnote in the story of Mary Shelley until Betty T Bennett started investigating. The story she unveiled is a remarkable one. This book Mary Diana Dods, A Gentleman and a Scholar. Meanwhile Mary Shelley had made friends with a young woman, Isabella Robinson. History records that Robinson married Walter Sholto Douglas and lived in Pari...
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performative utterance — a users guide | Performative Utterance
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Just another WordPress.com site. Performative utterance — a users guide. Performative utterance — a users guide. This is me: Kevin Mcveigh, 40 something book and music fan. I’ve been reviewing intermittently since 1984, including a stint as editor of Vector, and as Arthur C Clarke Award judge. My tastes are eclectic sometimes obscure and I hope my standards are high. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public).
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The Silver Wind – Nina Allan | Performative Utterance
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Just another WordPress.com site. Performative utterance — a users guide. The Quarry – Iain Banks. A Sense Of Shadow — Kate Wilhelm →. The Silver Wind – Nina Allan. June 23, 2013. Nina Allan, The Silver Wind. Eibonvale Press, 2011. Pp. 154. ISBN 978-1908125057. 6.99. Originally published on The Future Fire http:/ reviews.futurefire.net/2012/02/allan-silver-wind-2011.html. Nina Allan’s The Silver Wind. Clocks ensure grounding in the mundane even as time appears to warp all. Opener ‘Time’s Chariot’. Therefo...
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Josephine Saxton | Performative Utterance
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Just another WordPress.com site. Performative utterance — a users guide. BREED – K T Davies (Fox Spirit). Jessica Hopper — The First Book Of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic →. June 10, 2015. Let me put in a plea, not just, as is sometimes necessary with Fantasy and Science Fiction, for a suspension of disbelief, but for a suspension of strictly labelled parameters. Thus Josephine Saxton prefaced her collection The Travails of Jane Saint and Other Stories. There’s a knowingness there that, ...
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Kev McVeigh | Performative Utterance
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Just another WordPress.com site. Performative utterance — a users guide. Author Archives: Kev McVeigh. Review of literary matters, mostly but not all SFF , and digressions into music and other arts. Engagement welcomed. Four Shades of Blue: Adrift On the Sea of Hull. July 11, 2016. Women Up To No Good – Pat Murphy (Untreed Reads, 2013). May 23, 2016. May 1, 2016. Throughout his 40 year career Carter Scholz has always had what he calls a ‘characteristic, class-traitor response’ to genre.&#...About this ti...
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