Archive for Speculative Fiction
SarahP asked if there's a way to hear how the songs in Lord of the Rings are meant to be...
Started reading Pamela Dean's The Secret Country last night on the way to sleep. My comment so far: Having five...
The opportunity of a Western is that it takes issues of our culture—conflict, racial conflict, economic injustice, what is...
I'm reading William Tenn's 1958 story "Eastward Ho!" (as reprinted in the 60th-anniversary volume The Very Best of Fantasy &...
David Hartwell points out that it's easy for Year's Best editors to miss new stories (non-reprints) that appear in single-author...
I've now seen three episodes of FlashForward. So far, I'd say it's an interesting show; not brilliant, but intriguing. (I...
Nalo is going to be speaking at Swarthmore College this coming Tuesday evening (the 27th) at 7:30 p.m. She's a...
One of the things that I like about Leverage is that the hacker, Hardison, is a geek. This is particularly...
I just happened across an article from mid-2008 that says that Freema Agyeman and Jamie Bamber are starring in the...
Happened across a passing reference this morning to Sendak having come out last year (at age 80); looked it up...
Over at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories a few years back, they provided schemata for how to make a Cylon jack-o'-lantern....
Smart and interesting discussion in the latest issue of Transformative Works and Cultures: "Pattern recognition: A dialogue on racism in...