Browsing All posts tagged under »Ursula K LeGuin«

Confessions of a fantasy junkie

June 29, 2009

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My name is Damien, and I am a fantasy fan. It started as a child, when my mum read me The Lord of the Rings. Three times. Eventually tiring of JRR Tolkien, I scoured the shelves for alternatives. I found Ursula Le Guin but her great books were too few for my habit. So I… [Read more…]

Help Damien Pick His Holiday Reads

November 25, 2007

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Its a tough life being a writer. Take poor old William Gibson. I read all of Gibson’s books obsessively in my mid-teens. I’ve traveled great distances to see him speak. I’ve even twice been compared to him in pseudo psychometric testing. But when I was less than gripped by his new novel ‘Spook Country’ I… [Read more…]

Damien G. Walter is a writer of weird and speculative fiction. He blogs and reviews for The Guardian and elsewhere. Read one of his stories here.

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