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: Science Fiction
A Publishing Model I Hope Won’t Catch On (or) Disney Must Pay!
Last November I read an alarming Twitter thread from Cory Doctorow on Disney refusing to pay Alan Dean Foster royalties. Foster was the author (uncredited) of the original Star Wars …
Still Relevant: John Christopher’s ‘Tripods’ Series
The Tripod series, John Christopher’s classic science fiction series for young adults, remains scarily relevant to our current times, despite some dated elements. I know, I know, the last time …
A bit of light reading (not really) for International Women’s Day
About two years ago, I read an absolutely fascinating SF novel, Native Tongue, and is International Women’s Day seems like a perfect opportunity to say a little something about it.
Remembering Octavia Butler: two podcast recommendations
Two podcast recommendations to mark the 15th anniversary of Octavia Butler’s untimely death.
Kirby von Daniken: The Eternals
As I said in my Omac post, I didn’t care for most of Kirby’s Bronze Age work but The Eternals was an exception. Rereading them in TPB recently confirmed it …
Deus Ex Brother Eye: Omac, the One Man Army
Reading Jack Kirby in the Bronze Age made me wonder what his fans were smoking. Why did everyone keep talking about the guy who wrote Devil Dinosaur and The Demon as …