Comments for Worlds of Paul Jessup

Comment on Excerpt from a recent short story by Michelle Muenzler

Michelle Muenzler — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:52:05 +0000

Simple. Creepy. Niiiiice.

Comment on This is sick. by bernard

bernard — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:43:26 +0000

hey i will be honest i’d probably sell out for 2 million. y’know i was in that room, or on the phone with my agent and there’s all these funny guys in suits from big companies spitting coffee and all that stuff, well probably these things aren’t so romantic. I would have to think that all of these is advertising experiments yeah? and like this is a really real idea. see, there is no bad press right, i tend to think of giant corporations as sort of like all trying to simply control our habits and generally find our lives to conform to thier perverse pleasures or profits or whatever they call it, so for every person who is positively affected just knowing that so-an-so is writing their memoir or shit or biography, for every one of them there’s so many people negatively affected so as to go and consume something that is ant-so-and-so-is-writing-their-memoir-shit. Just simply our having any reaction to the press/media/corporations is already accounted for, possibly we can hope to be experimental groups in their giant corporations games but y’know, but then again it just as probably could not be all that maybe it’s just a bunch of robots. like media stunts and stuff, yknow?

Comment on Ekaterina Sedia blurbs Open Your Eyes by Paul

Paul — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:57:45 +0000

That’s excellent! Sounds like a fun read, too.

Comment on Berrian C. Henderson interviewed at Fantasy Magazine by Berry

Berry — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:13:02 +0000

Man, you sure know how to make a guy’s day. Thanks for the blurb, Paul. Glad you liked the interview. It was exciting, daunting, and fun all at once.

Comment on Excerpt from a short story I finished over the weekend by admin

admin — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:16:09 +0000

lol glad you guys both enjoyed it so much.

Comment on Excerpt from a short story I finished over the weekend by R. Schuyler Devin

R. Schuyler Devin — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:15:32 +0000

I second Jonathan Wood’s sentiments, holy…

So damn good that I cursed the final period of the excerpt!

Comment on Excerpt from a short story I finished over the weekend by Jonathan Wood

Jonathan Wood — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:29:52 +0000

Holy shit, dude.

Yes, yes, and yes.

Comment on Urban Fantasy as noir? Meh, not so much by admin

admin — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:30:07 +0000

It depends. One thing I forget to cover in this whole charade is one of the causes to people being confused over what is Fantasy and what is Urban Fantasy. Simply put- one is a genre, and the other is a market.

For example, I know a lot of writers who get pissed off because people think Fantasy is all elves and dwarves. They shouldn’t. Fantasy as a market is Tolkien rip offs. Fantasy as a genre is not, and is broader.

Same with Urban Fantasy. Urban Fantasy as a market is vampires and chics with stakes in the modern world. Urban Fantasy as a genre is much more loose, and deals with using the city to explore the fantastic (and would cover the authors you mention as well as many others).

Comment on Urban Fantasy as noir? Meh, not so much by Cesar Torres

Cesar Torres — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:25:28 +0000

The fiction methods in which writers examine the city, and modern life in cities, often extends itself into fantasy elements, though we don’t always readily call those novels fantasy. Carlos Fuentes’ short story “Aura,” Tom Wolfe’s “Bonfire of the Vanities” (if you include great hyperbole as fantasy), and Roberto Bolanos’ “The Savage Detectives”, all count. Also, our modern vocabulary of non-fiction writing, such as Studs Terkel’s chronicle of the American city, directly inform urban fantasy in a bigger way than the narrow scope of just noir fiction allows. That’s why good writers read widely. If you read closely, urban fantasy is far more pervasive than you’d think.

Comment on Moffat and Who by Rachel Jessup

Rachel Jessup — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:51:06 +0000

I have confidence that Moffatt will do well by Who, as will the next Doctor.

But I’m still not recovered from my Tennant-sorrow… :`(