Bill Ward's blog of all things genre
This short essay, ‘Future Realities: The First Line of Neuromancer,’ originally appeared in the Winter 2009 issue of The First Line. William Gibson’s 1984 blockbuster Neuromancer forever changed the way science fiction was written – and the way, too, we look at our own future. Slick and seedy, hardboiled as any noir thriller yet rich [...]
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This interview originally appeared at Black Gate Online. The great thing about interviewing Howard Andrew Jones is that it is impossible to run out of interesting things to talk about. That’s because Howard has been busy. Busy writing stories, busy preserving the legacy of an unsung founder of historical adventure, busy editing Black Gate Magazine. [...]
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This post originally appeared at Grasping For the Wind in March 2010, and was written in response to one of John Ottinger’s Inside the Blogoshere questions: How do you organize your library? Around a month ago I went through a major overhaul and purge of my collection, something years overdue. Space was definitely becoming more [...]
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Recently I wrote an essay about the dangers of too much ‘realistic thinking’ in fantasy fiction — When Realism Isn’t Real — Conan the Jazzerciser. In that article I used an example from Poul Anderson’s Conan pastiche Conan the Rebel to illustrate my point. The following post, which originally appeared at Black Gate, is a [...]
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Lately I’ve been immersed in all things bibliophilic, reflecting on reading more, organizing my shelves, the value of keeping a list, and the costs associated with an obsession with books. And it occurred to me in the midst of all this that there was something else I could talk about that most of us take [...]
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I’ve been in reviewer overload lately, reading, taking notes, and penning reviews for the next issue of Black Gate. But, more than that, I’ve also been coordinating our crop of reviewers this time out, and thinking in terms of what exactly it is that ought to be in the review section of the magazine, not [...]
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