The last of the three panels I had the honour of hosting for the Virtual Fantasy Con this year! In this one we discuss fantasy mashups. What happens when you blend fantasy with another genre? What are the benefits and the drawbacks? And at what point does a blend become a genre of its own? […]
Read More Virtual Fantasy Con 2017: Fantasy Mashups PanelThis is the second of three panels I had the privilege of hosting for the Virtual Fantasy Con 2017, and this one just might be my favourite. I was honoured to have a truly expert panel at my disposal, whose background and expertise included both studied and practical, hands-on experience. From logistics experts to medieval […]
Read More Virtual Fantasy Con 2017: Realism in Fantasy Warfare PanelI’m excited to announce the book trailer for Wyrd West #4, releasing Halloween 2017!
Read More Book Trailer: Way of the Gun (Wyrd West Chronicles #4)It was my honour and pleasure to host three panels for the Virtual Fantasy Con this year! Our first panel was on Gender Issues in Fantasy, and we had so much to say that it had to be broken into two parts! Here they both are: You can watch the entire Virtual Fantasy Con 2017 […]
Read More Virtual Fantasy Con 2017: Gender Issues in Fantasy PanelBy Judith Tarr Here we have our two contestants for this week’s match, the first in SFF Equines history (but not, perhaps, the last): on this side the tall, white, shining, magical, beautiful king of stallions who deigns to carry the great Wizard; and over on that side, the short, brown, fuzzy, unromantic, pretty definitely not-a-stallion who […]
Read More Middle-earth Cage Match: Bill the Pony vs. ShadowfaxUbik by Philip K. Dick My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the SF Masterworks Reading Challenge and the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club here on Goodreads. So far, my acquaintance with PKD has been strictly through this determination of mine to read through the entirety of the SF Masterworks imprint, which has spawned […]
Read More Book Review: Ubik by Philip K. DickOriginally posted on Mephit James Blog:
After I posted my last thoughts about Sci-Fi adaptations, I got a few very helpful responses from people. In an effort to leave no moonrock unturned (see what I did there?) I’m back with a few more additions. First off, I want to make it clear that I’m concentrating…
The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg My rating: 4 of 5 stars Read for the Science Fiction Masterworks Challenge, the Second Best Challenge, and the LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Challenge. This novel was nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus in 72-73, but won none of them. This book gave me a bit of a […]
Read More Book Review: The Book of Skulls by Robert SilverbergBy Roberto Minto In 2010, at the age of 81, the acclaimed novelist Ursula K. Le Guin started a blog. Blogs never seemed a likely destination for the writer, who by then had a long career in 20th-century traditional publishing behind her. But Le Guin’s new book, No Time To Spare, which harvests a representative sample of her blog […]
Read More What Happens When a Science Fiction Genius Starts Blogging?By Icy Sedgwick Think of Death for a moment. Did you picture a tall guy in a hood with a scythe? Or Neil Gaiman’s funky Siouxsie Sioux character from The Sandman? Or was it a more sombre abstract notion of pain and loss? Death can be, and is, all of these things, and much more. But […]
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