King Kong has been a staple in media for a long time. I’m not sure what sort of genre to put something like King Kong. SF? Fantasy? Paranormal romance? It’s certainly the first of the Kaiju sort of films but … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: October 2013
In last week’s post we looked at the three magical weapons that popular culture has with which to fight monsters, including poop. Thus armed, let’s consider our strategy and then go look under the bed. With Fava Beans and Chianti for All Taking … Continue reading
I’m hoping that by the time this post goes up our government will be back on track. If that’s the case ignore the remainder of this. As I write this, though, partisan politics is still holding sway. There is a … Continue reading
By Brenda W. Clough The pupils at the workshop I was teaching, such dewy-eyed and youthful sprouts! Their tender and innocent question was, how do you begin a story? My first and accurate response was (per Rudyard Kipling) that there … Continue reading
I stumbled on a review of Gravity the day it opened in Austin and went to see it on the spur of the moment. The visuals were incredible. I enjoyed them even though I didn’t see it in 3-D (not … Continue reading
It’s dangerous out there, people. There are risks involved in reading the wrong sorts of science fiction, and while advice and counsel is available around the web, the time has come for a concise glossary of the most common debilitating … Continue reading
It’s WWW Wednesday. This meme is from shouldbereading. • What are you reading now? John Buchan’s *The Courts of the Morning*. Seized by an urge to read something new by a long-known author, I was actually pursuing the rarely seen … Continue reading
Writing a hinky sports novel is a bit like Will Farrell making another ESPN-based movie. Nobody expects it to make much sense, but you know you’ll get a couple of laughs, see some boobies, watch some guys do stupid things in their undershorts, maybe experience an unexpectedly touching moment.
Continue readingWar Stories is an upcoming anthology of military science fiction, aimed at exploring how warfare might affect the soldiers and civilians of tomorrow. According to editors Andrew Liptak and Jaym Gates: War Stories isn’t an anthology of bug hunts and … Continue reading
My younger daughter is a high school senior. But she has been looking for colleges since she was a freshman in high school. There have been passionate flirtations, come hither glances from more brochures than you want to imagine (honest … Continue reading