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The World Builder's Bookshelf, Part 1
The World Builder's Bookshelf, Part 1

Now, I’ve had a lot of thoughts on genre fiction in the past, and this list is going to be more useful for people interested in writing a secondary world story, with a particular (but not exclusive) eye towards fantasy fiction. As a result of a number of factors, there are going to be several works that I often make use of in my political thoughts, but this list isn’t primarily or solely focused on that.

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Book Lists, Written by: CameronCameron SummersWorld Building, The Earth Transformed, Peter Frankopan, The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft from the Ice Age to the Present, Chris Gosden, Homo Ludens, Johan Huizinga, Work: A Deep History, James Suzman, Seeing Like a State, James C. Scott, Debt: The First 5000 Years, David Graeber, The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe, David M. Perry, Matthew Gabriele, Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, David Wengrow, A Burglar's Guide to the City, Geoff Manaugh, The Medieval Vision: Essays in History and Perception, Carolly Erickson, The Medieval Machine, Jean Gimpel, The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel, Cannibal Metaphysics, Eduardo Viveiros de CastroComment
Kill The Cop On Your Bookshelf: Recommendations for Unbureaucratic Fiction
Kill The Cop On Your Bookshelf: Recommendations for Unbureaucratic Fiction

Edgar and I are traveling, and so we’ve prepared these posts in advance. Right now, I want to share with you something that isn’t quite a genre but which are unified by a particular set of qualities. Maybe that’s what a genre really is. I don’t have a good name for them, so I’m going to describe this as “unbureaucratic” fiction.

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Book Lists, Written by: CameronCameron Summersunbureaucratic fiction, It, Stephen King, Lovecraft Country, The Destroyer of Worlds, Matt Ruff, Max Gladstone, Last Exit, The Blade Between, Sam J. Miller, The Night Will Find Us, Matthew Lyons, John Dies at the End, Jason Pargin/David Wong, No Gods No Monsters, Cadwell Turnbull, The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher, Vurt, Jeff NoonComment
Domesticity and Horror: the Woman-in-House Novel
Domesticity and Horror: the Woman-in-House Novel

Right now, I want to talk about a common subgenre within horror, which I am coming to call the “woman-in-house” novel. These are not simply haunted house novels; they are not simply feminist horror novels; these are not simply gothic novels. They display a constellation of traits that makes them identifiable as the same kind of thing.

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Book reviews, Book Lists, Written by: CameronCameron SummersDomestic Horror, horror, Woman-In-House Novels, The Red Tree, Caitlin R. Kiernan, T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones, Revelator, Daryl Gregory, Sundial, Catriona Ward, The Hollow Kind, Andy Davidson, The Good House, Tananarive Due, Ellen Willis, Family ChauvinismComment