Over the last I’m not sure how many years, I’ve noticed a shift in violence in books. I tend to read romantic suspense, paranormal romance, and all fantasy, plus some other stuff. What I’ve noticed is a growing comfort with … Continue reading
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Last week we looked at an exemplary monster of our times, Hannibal Lecter, who combines in one person both vampire and zombie, both predatory capitalism and coercive collectivism. After a recapitulation of the discourse so far, we’ll move on to … Continue reading
I’ve seen a bunch of the Big! Summer! Movies! this year, and there seems to me to be a disturbing trend: huge special effects, train crashes, shoot outs, aliens, superheroics…and dead bodies. Last year The Avengers showed us a whole … Continue reading
If we ignore juvenilia (and we should, I really think we should), I was a crime writer first, before I slipped all unmeaning into more speculative fiction. In those days, in the UK at least, crime or mystery writing divided … Continue reading