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My latest Blog Gate post is up, a somewhat seasonal number entitled “Killer Trees with Icy Fangs Roasting on an Open Fire”. But it’s really about why fantasy is more realistic, in some ways, than realism, a point I was … Continue reading →

1. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead: the trailer is here and it looks like a riot. Interesting to see Jeremy Sisto there playing a NY homicide cop with a certain natural authority. Someone should hire him to do this on … Continue reading →

We’re well into the Saturnalia so here are a couple of seasonal poems by Martial (translations by the oversigned).

My long-delayed if not much-anticipated review of Otis Adelbert Kline’s The Swordsman of Mars is at last up at the Black Gate site. (The day sort of got away from me.) Writery types might also be interested in Ryan Harvey’s … Continue reading →

1. A brain more than 2000 years old has been discovered in a muddy pit. On examination it doesn’t appear to be mine, though, so I guess I’ll have to keep looking. (I know I left it around here somewhere.) … Continue reading →

On balance, I decided Black Gate means more to me than Pox Verpulae or whatever his real name is. For those interested, my latest post is here. [edited to fix link–was typing in haste–still am]

Worlds to re-membrane from Taylor Mali: [seed at dindrane‘s LJ]

1. The bad news is that Theo, the newest addition to the Black Gate group-blog, is also the odious Vox Day. I object to the politicization of everything, and I think there should be a way for people who disagree … Continue reading →

At Salon.com (cookies must be enabled) there’s an interview of Laura Miller, talking about her new booklength essay, The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia. I expected to enjoy the interview more than I did. Both Traister (the interviewer) … Continue reading →

Frank Robinson: an unexpected (for me) connection between sf and assassinated SF politician Harvey Milk. I read Robinson’s The Power as a kid because I had just seen the film version on TV and I thought it was the coolest … Continue reading →