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sSUPERVERSIVE: Star Trek Beyond, the spoilerific review.
Tuesday , 2, August 2016 Superversive, Uncategorized 11 CommentsI grew up in a Star Trek house. A lot of my early memories involved classic Star Trek reruns and watching The Wrath of Khan the way my niece watches Frozen. I can remember the excitement of seeing Star Trek‘s future when TNG was new, and being mildly horrified and fascinated when my Dad told me the new Enterprise had kids […]
SUPERVERSIVE: Terms of Enlistment by Marko Kloos
Tuesday , 19, July 2016 Superversive, Uncategorized 3 CommentsI was tipped off to Marko Kloos’ Frontlines series by The WrongFun Podcast last fall, and they’ve been sitting on my kindle since then– not forgotten, precisely, but in the press of theological texts and papers and a whole spate of John C. Wright stuff, plus books people were giving me for review, they got […]
SUPERVERSIVE – Voltron: Legendary Defender
Tuesday , 12, July 2016 Superversive, Uncategorized 5 CommentsOne of the wonderful things about cartoons is that they tend to be a low-risk investment when it comes to the time required for them. Most animated shows are only twenty minutes or so without commercials, and so if they turn out to be terrible, it’s not a huge waste of time. I say all […]
Occasionally the idea of a “superversive canon” comes up in our discussions. We’re flexible enough in our terms (good storytelling, heroic characters, and a sense of wonder) that people can have varying ideas of what is and isn’t superversive. My wife, a woman who is supremely kind and beautiful but a muggle, doesn’t really see […]
I’m doing my best to avoid having this post devolve into an anime-centric column, but there are a couple of things working against me: A) What I wind up reading is not always something I feel like talking about for one reason or another (some things aren’t so much bad, which is perfectly valid review, […]
I’m not usually the kind of guy who watches magical girl shows. As a general rule I prefer my universes to be “rivets rather than magic”; I tend to like the science fiction worldview better than the fantasy worldview. (There’s something about scifi that resonates with me on a deeper level than fantasy, but that’s […]
SUPERVERSIVE Review: “Style is the Rocket”
Tuesday , 7, June 2016 Book Review, Promotions, Superversive 5 CommentsFirst off: I need to warn all of you. This is quite a long post. You need not panic, as much of it is made up of quotes, which can be skipped if necessary in favor of my analyses. But I hope I manage to keep your interest – and ah, therein lies the challenge. […]
SUPERVERSIVE meanders a bit today: It can’t always be scifi.
Tuesday , 24, May 2016 Superversive 5 CommentsOne of things that made me fall in love with anime back in the 90s was the sheer amount of science fiction you could find in anime, and how inventive they tended to be. In recent years, I feel like “inventive” hasn’t necessarily been the way I would describe anime offerings, but honestly, I’m not […]
I wasn’t really going to touch on anime over here, but then I yakked about Robotech and Macross for more than a month and you guys seemed to respond well to it. So I’ve decided that touching on some other anime series might not go amiss, and now you’re all in for it. I will […]
While Anthony and I are dealing with the end of our semesters, Ben Zwycky, a fellow superversive author, will be holding down the fort. I’ll be back in a few weeks with something relevant, because I don’t think this is the right blog for a discussion about the filioque controversy. Without further ado, Part 1 […]
JD Cowen at the Wasteland and Sky blog has been reviewing Cirsova magazine in a series of blog posts (here, here, and here.) Here’s his take on my retrospective that was included there: The last thing to talk about is the essay by Jeffro Johnson on the novel, Toyman, by E.C. Tubb, and comparing the rules […]
SUPERVERSIVE: Nick Cole On Blacklisting and Ctrl-Alt-Revolt!
Tuesday , 22, March 2016 Superversive 4 CommentsThe Superversive crew is back… and this time they’ve got Ctrl-Alt-Revolt author Nick Cole with them! This show is jam packed! Listen to the whole thing and you will… Find out what part of his novel Nick suspected would be the most problematic– and the context that surrounded his editor’s outrage. Gain SFF enlightenment by […]