Category: Links
Brandon Sanderson on Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Birth of the Japanese RPG (via Game Maker’s Toolkit)
The Interviews and Short Fiction of Tamsyn Muir
Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth is not only my favorite book of 2020 so far, it has also become one of my favorite books ever. Since Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to Gideon, is coming out this month, I’ve been trawling the Web for news, interviews, AMAs, and anything else I can find about the author. Here’s a handy list.
Interviews
- Reddit AMA
- The Horror of it All! A Conversation with Tamsyn Muir (Clarkesworld Magazine)
- An Interview with Tamsyn Muir (The Fantasy Inn)
- Tamsyn Muir’s Goony Fun ‘Gideon The Ninth’ Takes Sci-Fi Fantasy Prose Into New Territory (Forbes)
- Tamsyn Muir Interview: “There is a lot of blood on my dance floor.” (Three Crows Magazine)
- Tamsyn Muir: Blood Words (Locus Mag)
Short Fiction
- The Woman in the Hill (Nightmare Magazine)
- The Magician’s Apprentice (Lightspeed Magazine)
- The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex (Tor.com)
- The House that Made the Sixteen Loops of Time (Fantasy Magazine)
- Chew (Nightmare Magazine)
- Union (Clarkesworld Magazine)
Learning Mandarin, Japanese, and Russian Through Hindi
I recently discovered several resources for learning foreign languages through Hindi, which I found intriguing. Some of these resources are decades old, others are from the Internet age.
Mandarin: https://avtans.com/2020/07/04/learning-chinese-through-hindi/
Japanese: https://www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/hindi/
Russian 1: https://ia801603.us.archive.org/13/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.482818/2015.482818.Roosii-Praambhik.pdf
Russian 2: https://ia801602.us.archive.org/15/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.482819/2015.482819.Roosii-Praambhik.pdf
The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi (via The New Yorker)
AMA with Gideon the Ninth Author Tamsyn Muir (via Reddit)
Rust: Structuring and handling errors in 2020 (from Nick Groenen)
Everything I’ve built with Rust so far has been tiny in both scope and size, so writing out my error handling code by hand hasn’t been much of a hassle. However, I’ve been meaning to look into some of the popular error handling crates so I don’t have to write a ton of boilerplate every time I want to introduce a new type of error in my applications.
Nick Groenen covers two such crates in his blog post on error handling in Rust: https://nick.groenen.me/posts/rust-error-handling/
This reddit thread has further suggestions: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/gj8inf/rust_structuring_and_handling_errors_in_2020/
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7 Ways to Maximize Misery (from CGP Grey)
Yes, I’m on a CGP Grey binge today.