Remedial Fantasy for the Chronically Lazy: A Top Five List. Resurrected Post.
April 8, 2018 Remedial Fantasy For the Chronically Lazy: A Top Five List A couple of weeks ago I moderated a panel on the essential
If Ken Lizzi has a quest it is to help infuse a pulp sensibility into 21st Century fiction
April 8, 2018 Remedial Fantasy For the Chronically Lazy: A Top Five List A couple of weeks ago I moderated a panel on the essential
March 25, 2018 The Little Convention That Could So that’s NanoCon Mk. V done. What is NanoCon? It is a science fiction convention hosted by
January 28, 2018 Mileage Does Vary Sometimes a book does not live up to your memory of it, or to its reputation. Sometimes a book
January 14, 2018 2018 Tolkien Birthday Bash Saturday I took MBW and the HA into Portland for the annual J.R.R. Tolkien Birthday Celebration at the
December 17, 2017 The Little and the Big I’ve, at last, worked my way through a couple of massive, minor classics: Little, Big (John Crowley);
October 22, 2017 J.R.R. Tolkien: Appendix N’s Controversial Entry Writing about J.R.R. Tolkien is challenging unless one cares nothing for originality. Oceans of ink have
August 27, 2017 Appendix N, Margaret St. Clair I’ve been reluctant to write this one. You know the ubiquitous maternal aphorism “If you don’t have
June 25, 2017 Fred Saberhagen: Appendix N’s Master Craftsman I’ve reached Fred Saberhagen in my Appendix N irregular series of posts. And I’m extremely pleased
The end of modern civilization. What caused it? Nuclear war, plague, zombies, alien invasion? Pick your poison. But the world we know is gone. Survivors