January 31, 2016 Styles I’ve nearly completed re-reading “The Worm Ouroboros,” E.R. Eddison’s underappreciated masterpiece. It is a mine worth delving into again, its depths not fully plumbed, its treasures still unmeasured. If I haven’t made myself clear, I love it. The villains are Shakespearean, complex and fascinating. The heros are Homeric, grandly larger than… Continue reading Styles. Resurrected Post.
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Westercon 69, Dude. Resurrected Post.
January 24, 2016 Westercon 69, Dude I received an invitation to serve as a panelist at Westercon 69. Westercon is a regional science fiction convention, held in a different city west of the Rockies each year. For 2016 Portland took the honors. How convenient. Once again I will dilute the quality of the pool of… Continue reading Westercon 69, Dude. Resurrected Post.
The Great Garrett Reread Begins.
Rereading LOTR engenders a warm, comforting contentment. Rereading Garrett offers a sense of rightness, of completion. One is coming home, the other is going to the pub. Each appeals. The Garrett books were…influential. I won’t say foundational, since I didn’t start reading them until college. But once I started I didn’t look back, picking up… Continue reading The Great Garrett Reread Begins.
Home. Resurrected Post.
January 17, 2016 Home Hobbits are the quintessential homebodies. So it is no wonder that Professor Tolkien’s literary masterpiece includes one of the few examples in speculative fiction of a lovingly detailed home. Bag End is so finely realized that most of us would love to live there. That makes it a rarity. Homes in speculative… Continue reading Home. Resurrected Post.
Appendix N is Cosmically Indifferent to Your Opinion: HP Lovecraft. Resurrected Post.
January 10, 2016 Appendix N is Cosmically Indifferent to Your Opinion: HP Lovecraft So we come to HPL himself, Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Much anguished ink has been spilled over HPL in recent years. You want to delve into that, you’re on your own. I’m just writing about stories here. HPL is best known for his… Continue reading Appendix N is Cosmically Indifferent to Your Opinion: HP Lovecraft. Resurrected Post.
Cute Little Baby New Year Already Has a Tattoo and a Piercing. Resurrected Post.
January 3, 2016 Cute Little Baby New Year Already Has a Tattoo and a Piercing The Earth has circled the sun once more. Congratulations: if you’re reading this you survived the trip. A traditional post-New Year’s Day activity is the listing of resolutions, followed by the traditional failure to adhere to the resolutions. I’m bypassing… Continue reading Cute Little Baby New Year Already Has a Tattoo and a Piercing. Resurrected Post.
Holiday Reading Resurrected Post.
December 27, 2015 Holiday Reading Christmas is behind you. The detritus of wrapping paper, bows, packing material, and boxes has been disposed of. The refrigerator is stuffed with leftovers. You hope to make enough room for party platters and bottles of champagne within a few days. The presents of clothing are washed, folded, and put… Continue reading Holiday Reading Resurrected Post.
The Push Continues. Resurrected Post.
December 20, 2015 The Push Continues And thus I continue pounding the drum and tooting the horn. The Portland Things From Another World store generously hosted a signing for “Under Strange Suns” last Wednesday. I sold books, signed my name, chatted with customers. That I can do. Last Tuesday I sat for an interview with… Continue reading The Push Continues. Resurrected Post.
Connubial Characters. Resurrected Post.
December 13, 2015 Connubial Characters I’ve been thinking about weddings and marriage recently. And, since I’m me, about fiction. Specifically speculative fiction, i.e., fantasy and science fiction. Now dramatic narrative, even in speculative fiction, often leads to a wedding between characters. But it seems that characters — main characters, at least — seldom begin a… Continue reading Connubial Characters. Resurrected Post.