Nicola Griffith

Writer. Queer cripple with a PhD. Seattle & Leeds.

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Leigh Brackett’s The Long Tomorrow

I read Brackett’s The Long Tomorrow for the first time in 2005. Five pages in, I wondered why I’d never heard of this novel. Twenty pages later, I was wondering why it wasn’t universally acknowledged as the first Great American SF Novel.

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Posted on March 25, 2015 by Nicola Griffith in 1-essays

The indefatigable weirdness of ’50s American science fiction

“These novels testify to the extraordinary range, profound intelligence, and indefatigable weirdness of ’50s American science fiction. A must-have for anyone interested…

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Posted on July 17, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Go read some SF by women

Over at io9.com, Charlie Jane Anders has rounded up some opinions on the 10 SF novels people pretend to have read–and why…

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Posted on July 11, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Some novels I got all the way through this month

Yesterday I listed books I’ve tried in the last three or four weeks. I’m going to talk briefly about the novels I…

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Posted on November 23, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

this and that

I’m still busy building the new LambdaLiterary.org (it’s coming soon, really–go help us by completing the survey). Meanwhile, please enjoy these links…

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Posted on February 19, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The Sword of Rhiannon

Now available: Leigh Brackett’s The Sword of Rhiannon, “a love song and eulogy to a planet…a hymn to the lost past of…

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Posted on May 3, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

vitamin D handy for apocalypse

Cholecalciferol by Calvero, from Wikipedia I could have sworn I saw this news about vitamin D somewhere months ago… Radiological health expert…

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Posted on November 12, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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