I made one of my random excursions to the front page of hatrack and I noticed that on the lefthand side there was an unfamiliar site name (below the standard Hatrack, Ornery, Taleswapper, IGMS, and StrongVerse): Starshine and Shadows.
Here's what appears to be the mission statement of the site:
quote:Here you will find (eventually) a potpourri of writings relating to three kinds of Storytelling - Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror - and the connections between them, between them and their readers, and between them and their critics.
Over the years I've written essays, articles, and reviews concentrating on how these particular Stories work, and why. While I appreciate the journals that published many of these, especially The Leading Edge, they enjoyed relatively limited readerships. What seemed a dream beyond hope was some outlet that would allow students and fellow enthusiasts not only to read my thoughts but to respond to them, react to them, and use them as invitations back into some of my favorite books.
Then … the internet. And Hatrack River has generously provided this webspace for precisely that purpose.
StarShine and Shadows will print and reprint articles ranging from the theory of Science-Fiction poetry to studies of individual books and stories by Orson Scott Card, Stephen King and others; from reviews of new books to selections of poetry (some of mine, to suggest ways theory can be transformed by practice; some from other poets where they give permission); from finished essays to ideas-in-progress.
The current essay is comparing the original release of The Stand to the 1990 rerelease (which added about 400 pages of content). It's interesting. There are also essays about The Folk of the Fringe, Ender's Game, Paradise Lost, and a few general essays.
Has anyone else been here? How long has this site been active?
It looks very cool.
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I got an email from the author when I blogged about the site, and I pretty much stopped blogging around september of 2005, so it was before that. I think it was almost certainly before IGMS.
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