Now that it’s streaming on Netflix, I’ve been watching THE TWILIGHT ZONE for the first time. (I had a deprived childhood.) The show has had a big impact on the SF community for decades, like a grandfather who used to … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2016
Couple of weeks ago I talked about picking up two movies in the cheapo bin that turned out to be keepers. The first, Bickford Shmeckler’s Cool Ideas, is reviewed here. Today I’ll review the second, Rhymes with Banana. This movie … Continue reading
I have two daughters, and one is an actress Because of this, she and her sweetie have worked at the Great Dickens Fair in San Francisco for… five? No, six years. First as scum (the local color who give the joint color); … Continue reading
by Brenda W. Clough Is there anything that makes heart and mind race better than a truly smart science fiction movie? Surely Arrival is going to be a finalist for the film Hugo and Nebula. It’s also garnered considerable critical … Continue reading
The Dice Tales column has been running since the beginning of the year; now it’s time to bring it to a close. All the posts will remain available here on Book View Cafe, though spam prevention measures mean the comment … Continue reading
(Picture from here.) When I grew up there were four books I read over and over: Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain Kim, Rudyard Kipling All the Mowgli Stories, Rudyard Kipling Crazy Weather, Charles L McNichols Crazy Weather was never made into a … Continue reading
[Note: This is a re-post from last year for your edification and amusement. Merry baking!] Don’t you just love those magazine covers? You know, the Christmas issues with the plates of gorgeously decorated sugar cookies that promise “simple, heart-felt gifts … Continue reading
“This is another lesson I take from Ursula: Sometimes if you don’t fit in the world, the world has to change.” — Karen Joy Fowler Those words from Karen’s keynote speech at the 2016 Tiptree Symposium summed up my experience. … Continue reading
A point of information: I’ve never watched an episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE all the way through. The ZONE, of course, is before my time–I was born in 1967, four years after the show went off the air. However, many … Continue reading
There’s a dragon on the cover of the book. There’s a dragon on the cover of the book. He is long and green and scaly, but he’s nowhere in the tale. He is a dragon on the cover of the … Continue reading