Philip Athans
@philathans
Liberal author, editor, and SF, fantasy, horror, and TTRPG fan who has some links at and is happy to have rebuilt a #writingcommunity here. NO to AI. AUTHORS AGAINST BOOK BANS:
Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? --Matthew 7:1-3
A large concentration of the wisdom can be found in… The Best of Fantasy Author’s Handbook Vol. 1 amzn.to/3gpRGZ3
This is fun… I just misspelled the word… spelling. Because that's what editors with thirty years experience do.
Happy birthday to #sciencefiction editor, author, and pioneer Lester del Rey, born Leonard Knapp on June 2, 1915. Thank you for The Runaway Robot! fantasyhandbook.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/b...
Happy birthday to my #writing idol, Harlan Ellison, born May 27, 1934. fantasyhandbook.wordpress.com/2016/10/11/b...
Happy birthday to the legendary Arthur Conan Doyle, May 22, 1859, one of the all time giants. fantasyhandbook.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/b...
The genius Gene Wolfe was born on this day, May 7, in 1931, and for all we know he’ll come back to us at the end of the world.
Happy birthday to the “Dean of Science Fiction.” “I’ve never been much of a revolutionary. I’ve very seldom wanted to break any taboos. I’ve just felt total freedom to say anything I wanted.” —Jack Williamson (April 29, 1908)
Happy birthday Anne McCaffrey, the Dragonrider herself, April 1, 1926.
Happy birthday to #sciencefiction pioneer William Gibson, born March 17, 1948. Author of Neuromancer, one of my ten favorite of all time: fantasyhandbook.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/b...
Happy birthday to Mark Z. Danielewski, author of the masterpiece House of Leaves. March 5, 1966. fantasyhandbook.wordpress.com/2016/10/11/b...
Happy 100th birthday to Richard Matheson, February 20, 1926. I keep calling people “one of the all time greats” in these posts, and here’s another one!
The mad genius Alejandro Jodorowsky was placed on this planet by unknown forces on February 17, 1929. Happy birthday.
Happy birthday to Iain Banks, who, with or without his middle initial, wrote some of my favorite books of all time. February 16, 1954.
Happy birthday Jules Verne, one of the inventors of the science fiction genre, born in Nantes, France, February 8, 1828.