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Tag Archives: Idries Shah
Memories of Doris Lessing
While I was trawling my archives for notes I’d made on Sufism in Burnley (in vain so far), an unpolished, unpublished draft post on Doris Lessing came to my attention – I was conscious I hadn’t said all I wanted … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion, Philosophy, Trivia
Tagged Dark Fantasy, Doris Lessing, Erisse of the Illyany, Idries Shah, Space Fiction, Sufism, Tengrism
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Kulturá at Kavá 2
[* edited 06/08/2016] To blog or not to blog. I shuck off thoughts of Grant Morrison’s Invisibles (Vertigo Comics) and retellings of The Fisher King. Once more I am at Kulturá at the Kavá in Todmorden. In another life, things … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Review
Tagged A Slow Blues, Aristotle, Cheetham Street Writers, Ed Reiss, Hasiwriters, Idries Shah, Kavá, Kulturá, Lucky, Mandy Pannett, Plato, Poetry, Sentinel Books, silt from distant lands, Sufi
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What kind of detail do you consider when Creating a Fantasy World or an SF Universe?
It’s time for another go at this. What is world creation? For several months now I’ve been reading Juvaini’s The History of The World-Conqueror. This work is relatively unknown in the West and was written as an account of the … Continue reading
Hasiwriters / Fantasy – Horror Project
Since April 2010 my local writing group, Hasiwriters, has met in Haslingden Library. Hasiwriters (a contraction of Haslingden Writers) has finally made its way into my memory cells. From a lifetime of made up words, I’ve an instinctive aversion to new … Continue reading
Appendix II – the Quest for Meaning
Six months ago I finished work on A Guide to First Contact. I write fiction to explore ideas; in the case of Guide, I wanted to provide the backdrop to the workings of non-human intelligences. Fairly hefty stuff, huh? My … Continue reading
Doris Lessing
A quick look around throws up the following: Born 22/10/1919, Kermanshah, Persia (now Iran) Died 17/11/2013, London, UK The Telegraph – Doris Lessing dies aged 94 New York Times – Doris Lessing, Novelist who won 2007 nobel is dead at … Continue reading
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Tagged Doris Lessing, Idries Shah, London, Opinion, Science Fiction, Space Fiction, Sufi, The Guardian, UK The Telegraph
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