Bill Ward's blog of all things genre
Over at Baen Gregory Benford has penned a terrific two-part article all about Heinlein’s Farmer in the Sky and the notion of terraforming Jupiter’s moons. In part one Benford gives us a personal recollection of the impact Heinlein had on him as a kid (he grew up to be a scientist and science fiction author, [...]
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A recent article at The Independent by Johann Hari takes a close look at the familiar phenomenon of the difficulty of focused reading in the age of instant gratification email, facebook, and twitter interaction. Finding the mental quietude to properly read is becoming harder and harder, and Hari observes that the double meaning of the [...]
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Artist Ward Shelley has crafted a really extraordinary infographic depicting the historical evolution of science fiction, from the age of Gilgamesh to the time of Star Wars. Moving from left to right, Shelley’s tentacled monster (inspired by War of the Worlds aliens) contains sinuous and bifurcated pathways detailing the seminal writers and stories that have [...]
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A little while ago writer Matthew David Surridge penned a hefty trilogy of articles at Black Gate that look in depth at his rereading of The Lord of the Rings. It’s great stuff and well-worth the time to digest, and Surridge really dives into his subject and tries to arrive at just what it is [...]
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Last freitag a guest post of mine appeared over at Rogue Blades Entertainment’s new blog platform, the Home of Heroics. When Realism Isn’t Real — Conan the Jazzerciser takes one example from a Poul Anderson Conan pastiche and goes to town with it, looking at how ‘realistic thinking’ can sometimes blind an author to the [...]
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I have recently been tooling around the archives for the Better Book Titles blog, which is a site that has people photoshop in various alternative titles to famous books. The titles are intended to cut to the chase, summing up the books in ways flippant and concise. Some are highly clever, some aren’t, and some [...]
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