Author Archives: JE

New Babel Clash: Respectobiggles of the Mainstream. (Actually, respectobiggles don’t come up, but now I wish I’d thought of them. Maybe the next time this perennial topic comes up.)

New Babel Clash: Using reality, or vice versa.

Courtesy of Black Gate and Pyr, win a free copy of This Crooked Way, the book that many are calling, “A book about Morlock and some other characters.”

…into your blog I will creep. (At least, if you’re the Borders Babel Clash blog. Not otherwise, on advice of counsel.) A new entry here, this one with a video subtext, a political surtext, and a pro-fabulistic agenda. “What do … Continue reading →

More genre-mixing in today’s “Babel Clash” post.

A new “Babel Clash” post now up, this one titled (with classical restraint) “Monster Cowboys in Space!” It’s about genre mixing, as far as I can tell.

My Blog Gate post of the week is now up, this one a reread of a golden moldy, “The Elder Gods” by “Don A. Stuart” (really John W. Campbell jr).

It’s not a strain of swine flu, and it’s not the dance craze that all the kids are doing. It’s my latest “Babel Clash” post, and it’s here.

1. Charles Stross discovers that the writers of Star Trek: The Next Generation didn’t even pretend to themselves that the science of the show was good. I feel his pain, I guess. I just feel it somewhat remotely, as it … Continue reading →

I just posted my first “Babel Clash” entry, this one modestly titled “Enge v. Elves”.