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sSome stories are just so good, you want people to be able to read them without any preconceived notions of what they are about or why they are noteworthy. Here are several of that sort: “The True History of the Hare and the Tortoise” by Lord Dunsany “Memory” by H. P. Lovecraft “Nightmare In Yellow” […]
Rocket’s Red Glare – Double Stuff Short Reviews
Wednesday , 14, June 2017 Short Fiction, Uncategorized 5 CommentsFreeman’s Stand, by Sarah A. Hoyt, brings the theme of Rocket’s Red Glare back to the forefront with a vengeance. Molly is a teenaged girl who is literally a rebellious teenager. She has joined a loose organization dedicated to overthrowing a vaguely defined despotic regime with the goal of implementing an equally vaguely defined New […]
Hooc Ott dropped a blog post-sized comment on Jon Del Arroz’s post about cultural differences between the two main factions in the science fiction and fantasy scene: A divide I have found is Christian and post-Christian atheist. Throw a rock at a crowd of Pulp revolutionaries and you will hit a Christian 9 out of […]
SUPERVERSIVE Review: Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Tuesday , 13, June 2017 Movies, Superversive Leave a commentToday’s post is a guest post by A.M. Freeman, author of the controversial short story “At the Edge of Detachment” from the anthology “Forbidden Thoughts”, co-host of the Whippersnappers Podcast, and a regular contributor at superversivesf.com. You can also follow her personal blog at lostinlalalandblog.wordpress.com Let me start out by saying that I have never […]
Guest Post by Dario Ciriello: Get Ready to DROWN the Cat!
Tuesday , 13, June 2017 Just Released 41 CommentsThe question of precisely why books and films today have become so generic and formula-driven is one that’s intrigued me for some time. Not long ago I watched the 1997 science fiction film, Contact, again. And, like 95 percent of the science fiction movies I see, it annoyed the living hell out of me. Why? […]
I had a terrible weekend. How about you? For my part, I spent almost four hours watching E3 press conferences, first EA’s, then the Xbox’s, then Bethesda’s. And after seeing presentation after presentation, and trailer after trailer, my response is this: Utter and complete stupefied boredom. Nothing excited me at all.
SENSOR SWEEP: Unbreakable Friendships, Ragtag Freedom Fighters, Writing Group Con Artists, and Deluded Jackasses
Monday , 12, June 2017 Sensor Sweep 13 CommentsPulp Revolution (Jon Del Arroz) Behavioral Observations In Science Fiction — “Think about it. Six years of working hard still can’t get a person accepted and embraced without a miracle, four months of chatting with some folk online create unbreakable friendships. I’m the same person in both situations, so are you. There’s nothing different there other […]
ON THE TABLE: Space Empires Close Encounters and the Bringers of Sorrow
Sunday , 11, June 2017 Tabletop Games 2 CommentsI love everything about this expansion. I wonder sometimes if it’s maybe just a little bit too much for mere mortals, but we are so engrossed by it at my house that we don’t have time to really think that point all the way through. We replayed the “Extra Large 2-player” scenario because I really […]
Roy Krenkel (1918-1983) is an artist primarily associated with Edgar Rice Burroughs paperbacks. He attended Burne Hogarth’s classes at the School of Visual Arts. He did work with Al Williamson and Frank Frazetta for EC Comics in the early 1950s. Krenkel also drew interior art in the waning days of the pulp magazine for Marvel […]
A “geoffrey” over at the ODD74 boards has this comment on the subject of Appendix N: I think it takes about 200 years before a civilization can assuredly judge literature. During the century a book is written, it partakes of the nature of that century. The century after a book is written, the civilization is […]
Son of the Pulps Part 2: Farmer’s Tarzans
Saturday , 10, June 2017 Appendix N, Authors, Book Review, Fiction 6 CommentsTarzan as imagined by Edgar Rice Burroughs is a vivid hero that epitomizes full-blooded adventure and influenced generations of writers. The Tarzan of Jose Philip Farmer is better; the ultimate, indomitable hero and my favorite fictional character. As we noted in last week’s column, Farmer was utterly fascinated with Tarzan and wrote several different pastiches […]
I was considering writing about my recent readings of the Broken Sword or Neutron Star, but I’ve just been having too much fun with Rimworld. So much fun that I had to share. For those who may be unfamiliar with this one, Rimworld is a scifi colony sim/survival game inspired by the likes of Firefly, Dune, Alastair Reynolds’ Revelation Space […]