Monthly Archives: December 2006

Seen via CLASSICS-L: At The Onion, Aristophanes complains that audiences just don’t get him anymore. A clip: “Even my best gags get little more than a blank look these days. It’s like the average audience member never heard a friggin’ … Continue reading →

Scott R. Bakker has an interesting article in August’s Heliotrope (seen via David Soyka’s recent review of short fiction at Black Gate). The core of his argument is that fantasy is socially useful because it promotes what he calls interpretational … Continue reading →

A short thread at deadcity icon‘s Livejournal provoked the question, Does genre matter?” I think it does. Like anyone I can see the mainstreamification of sf/f concepts and tropes (e.g. Pynchon’s new book), but this phenomenon isn’t really new (e.g. … Continue reading →