Bill Ward's blog of all things genre
I still remember going with my father to some electronics specialty store in an industrial park to buy Pac-Man for the Atari — in those days I don’t even think Toys ‘R’ Us carried video games yet. Now, of course, the average fridge magnet boasts more computing power than a Pentagon mainframe did in the [...]
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This weekend I got the chance to help sling the book version of Mike Riley’s i taste sound online web comic, all as part of Free Comic Book Day. I know what you’re thinking — Free Comic Book Day AND National Dog Bite Prevention Week, both in one month? How can anyone handle all that? [...]
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Well, not yet at any rate. Seems the magnetic north pole, which has been quite content to while away its time in the frozen north of Canada, has been pretty quickly relocating in the direction of Russia. And by quickly I mean it’s shifting by about 40 miles every year! An article over at The [...]
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I have a pretty strong recollection of the story of Phineas Gage, I remember watching a documentary about it in class in middle school. And what twelve year old in the world isn’t going to be all ears when they hear about what happened to Gage — how a two-foot iron rod shot completely through [...]
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Artist Julia Yu has posted a sci-fi spin on a classic children’s picture book, Goodnight Moon, all mashed-up in a cute and goofy way with Herbert’s (and Lynch’s) Dune. Goodnight Dune is packed full of fun little details from the book and film, like ornithopther models on the mantle piece, a stuffed spice guild navigator [...]
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This blog now has a new name and a new look, as part of a new start. Deep Down Genre Hound; that’s me, that’s what I do, and that’s what I care about. And like the three headed hound of myth, I’m a triple-jawed threat, braying about the doings and goings of science fiction, fantasy, [...]
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