Author Archives: JE

Eh. Not all bad, but lots of badness carried over from the previous season, and there is new badness added to the mix. On the up side, the plot-line involving the older generation of heroes looks like it may go … Continue reading →

Scientists plan to create a supermouse.

The Onion AV Club has been running an interesting feature on its blog where one of the editors, Keith Phipps, reviews in turn each one of the 75 “vintage” (= damn old) paperbacks he bought in a big box from … Continue reading →

Last weekend I was clearing out a long-neglected corner of our house when I found a letter addressed to me. “Weird,” I said to myself, looking at the envelope. “That looks like my own writing, too.” Then I realized: it … Continue reading →

In good news for readers of adventure fiction, the late lamented e-zine Flashing Swords, founded by the irreplaceable Howard A. Jones, is relaunching in Fall 2007 with a new slate of editors. Candidly, I don’t know the work of the … Continue reading →

This probably falls into that very large category of “Things Everybody Knows Except Me” but apparently a group of dedicated fans has been producing a series of webisodes that continue the original “Five Year Mission” of the Enterprise. This entails … Continue reading →

a.) “Sword and Planet” stories and Edgar Rice Burroughs have both come up in recent threads on the usually (too) quiet swordandsorcery community. 2.) The wise and the good tell us to “write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives … Continue reading →

Both morbid and lighthearted, here’s the paradigmatic Bergman parody De Düva by George Coe. (It’s also the first film of the unspeakably great Madeline Kahn, apparently.) If the embedded video below doesn’t work you might try Google video directly or … Continue reading →

John O’Neill has put up a preview of Black Gate 11 (which will include a Morlock novella, “The Lawless Hours”). Things I never knew (or forgot about) until recently: There are “Black Gates” all over the world: in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, in … Continue reading →