Thoughts on a Geek Turning 49
At 49, I’m now officially older than most of my childhood heroes. That can’t help but be a little depressing. But am I handling it any better than they are?
Category: Books
‘The Jasmine Throne’: A Brilliant New Fantasy
The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri is exactly what I love in a fantasy novel: immersive worldbuilding, characters who feel real enough to walk off the page, and enough plot …
Temporary Superheroine goes to Hollywood
The reluctant superheroine tackles the movie industry this time…
Adventures in the 700 Section
From about age 12 to 15, almost all of my pop culture itches were scratched at the Torrance Public Library. Where Greg Hatcher steeped himself in genre fiction, I was all about the nonfiction; the people, the history, the methods. We were both trying to escape, but while Greg was escaping into fictional worlds, I was trying to escape into a different real world, become a different person, and I knew that the tools to do that would be found almost entirely in the 700 section.
Jeffty Is Five … and I’m Sixty-Three
When I read Harlan Ellison’s Jeffty Is Five back in 1978 (in Terry Carr’s collection The Year’s Finest Fantasy), it blew me away. When I reread it a few years ago (this …