The Hundredth(ish) Post
This isn’t my hundredth post. It was meant to be, but then I got distracted and scheduled things carelessly, so it is my hundredth and fifth post. I thought, given that the one hundredth post is...
View ArticleThe Madcap Fiction Machine
Chapter headings nowadays are utilitarian things. Just a flat number or – in the increasingly common multiple-perspective works – the name of the point-of-view character. It wasn’t always this way....
View ArticleThe Problem with Horror: Length
Horror – in any medium – has a weakness. It’s almost always too long. And long horror doesn’t really work – it might start off strong, but it slowly attenuates, ending in anticlimax. Before I begin...
View ArticleThree Reasons to Read Adrian Tchaikovsky’s “Shadows of the Apt”
Adrian Tchaikovsky is an underrated author. He’s not unsuccessful – his books appear in mainstream stores, and he gets favourable reviews. Right now, he’s in the running for a Clarke Award. But he...
View ArticleThree Reasons to Read Steve Alten’s “Meg” series
I’ve read a lot of books, and watched a lot of films, about monsters. In so far as “monster attacks group of people” is a genre, it’s one of my preferred genres. I have thrilled to tales of...
View ArticleGlory to Them – Anderson M. Scruggs
“A hush of reverence for that vast dead Who gave us beauty for a crust of bread.” I came across this quotation, mis-attributed, in an essay, and found it rather compelling. Tracking down the source,...
View ArticleThe Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Women
News from the world of digital analysis of literature, where a study in the Journal of Cultural Analytics has discovered that women are… missing. Absent. Vanished. Fallen off the bottom of the page....
View ArticleWarhammer Adventures
Games Workshop has announced a new line of children’s books set in the Warhammer universe. The books will be set in both the Warhammer 40K and Age of Sigmar settings, and will feature protagonists in...
View ArticleAn Incomplete List of Unfinished Series
Why you don't have to watch that Netflix series everyone is talking about.
View ArticleThe Quality of Mercy: Women at War, Serbia 1915-1918 – Monica Krippner (Review)
“In 1914 a large number of British women doctors and nurses formed their own medical units for war service; but, as women, they were rejected by their own authorities so they volunteered for service...
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