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sThe Golden Age of Science Fiction is NOT Twelve
Saturday , 7, January 2017 Appendix N, Comment 26 CommentsThere is a lot of great stuff in The Frisky Pagan’s latest post, but this part especially struck me: Q: I’ve read that the target audience of most pulps was twelve year old boys. Have you consciously ‘written down’ to your audience at times? A: Twelve-year-old boys? No, no. Kids didn’t read the pulps. Not […]
It’s Current Year and Alignment is Still Weirdly Controversial
Tuesday , 3, January 2017 Appendix N, Comment 12 CommentsOver at Dyvers, Charles Akins reports that players are still struggling with concept of alignment in their tabletop fantasy role-playing games: A friend of mine had invited three teenage players into his game. The three players decided to play characters with different alignments. The first decides to play Lawful Evil, the second elects to become […]
There’s a lot of nonsense in The Rise of Science Fiction from Pulp Mags to Cyberpunk over at Electric Lit– so much, it’s hard to know where to start. For my money, the passage below is the one that takes the cake: But “the Golden Age” has come to mean something else as well. In […]
2016 Planetary Award Nomination: John C. Wright and Schuyler Hernstrom
Sunday , 8, January 2017 Jeffro Comment 6 CommentsIt’s time to get your 2016 Planetary Award Nominations in! Here are mine: Longer story (novels) — Without a doubt, the best novel I read last year was Swan Knight’s Son. I thought it was just me at first. I mean, surely I’m about the only person that really wants an undiluted vision of knightly […]