Ambrose & Elsewhere

“Crow may have drawn us a roadmap to Morlock.”

“The crows would never do that!” I shouted at the screen. “Morlock and them have a deal!” Then I realized… different Crow… different Morlock.

1. Belated but unbowed, I posted a sort of review of the movie Where the Wild Things Are at the Blog Gate.

2. The Sci Fi Guys Book Review guys interviewed me a while ago for one of their periodic podcasts, and it’s up, now. It was a pretty good conversation, I thought.

3. I partook in the latest round of discussions about sf/f, respect and respectability at SF Signal’s Mind Meld feature.

1. A new Babel Clash post, this one about the perils and pleasures of live storytelling.

2. An insanely beautiful day today. It was that kind of autumn day you remember wistfully from childhood, thinking, “I must be making that stuff up. No day was as wonderful as that.” But today was, smashing my face with gold-leafed glory every time I stepped outside. I was on the bike trail in the hour before sunset, and as I came down the final stretch I was rolling through cool blue shadow while the reddish leaves above me blazed in red sunlight, gilding their unrefined gold.

Babel Clash: Are we living in a pop Golden Age or a Silver Age–and, more importantly, what’s the exchange rate?

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 we want?”

“STORIES!”

“When do we want them?”

“AT YOUR EARLIEST CONVENIENCE, IF IT’S NOT TOO MUCH TROUBLE!”

“‘Now!’ The line is ‘Now!'”

“‘THE LINE IS NOW!’ THAT IS SO ZEN!”

“Some rabbles just aren’t worth rousing.”

“GO TO SLEEP! YOU CAN ALWAYS DELETE THIS IN THE MORNING!”

They’re right, I think.

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.