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Minor Publication (on aliens!)

A new book with a self-explanatory title, Aliens in Popular Culture , edited by Michael M. Levy and Farah Mendlesohn, has just been published. Mostly, this consists of a number of encyclopedia entries and a few more in-depth introductory essays on aliens in popular culture. Proud to say that I had my own small contribution -- a brief entry (>1000 words) on the Amnion in Stephen R. Donaldson's Gap sequence. Nice that it came out, though exorbitantly priced at $94.00.

The LEGENDS series, edited by Robert Silverberg

When L egends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy appeared in 1998, edited by Robert Silverberg, I remember seeing it in bookstores, but otherwise didn't pay it much mind. Mostly, the novella by Robert Jordan caught my eye. Well, during my final read of Brandon Sanderson's completion of The Wheel of Time , I was waiting around for my amazon copy of the final book to arrive and decided to give that Jordan novella a shot. So I went down to Bookman's, got it (in 3 volumes for the paperback edition), and breezed through the eleven stories. The quality of these novellas, however, varied so widely that I'm now going to grade them for fun. The only novella I skipped was King's, since I'd like to read The Dark Tower first. Otherwise, here goes: Stephen King: "The Little Sisters of Eluria" ( The Dark Tower ) skipped. Terry Goodkind: "Debt of Bones" ( The Sword of Truth ) Grade: C+  Commentary: Not awful, I suppose, but too slick

H.P. Lovecraft research fellowship

Huh -- new research fellowship for H. P. Lovecraft. Copied below: ---------------------- The John Hay Library at Brown University invites applications for its 2019-2020 S.T. Joshi Endowed Research Fellowship for research relating to H.P. Lovecraft, his associates, and literary heirs. The application deadline is  March 15, 2019. The Hay Library is home to the largest collection of H. P. Lovecraft materials in the world, and also holds the archives of Clark Ashton Smith, Karl Edward Wagner, Manly Wade Wellman,  Analog  magazine,  Cait lín Kiernan, and others . The Joshi Fellowship, established by The Aeroflex Foundation and Hippocampus Press, is intended to promote scholarly research using the world-renowned resources on H. P. Lovecraft, science fiction, and horror at the John Hay Library. The Fellowship provides a monthly stipend of $1,500 for up to two months of research at the library between July 2019 and June 2020. The fellowship is open to individuals engag