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Nobody Gets Mad About Hamlet Remakes: Why Superheroes Are the New Cultural Mythology "What's missing here is an recognition of the difference between a story and a text. The act of restaging..." on Nobody Gets Mad About Hamlet Remakes: Why Superheroes Are the New Cultural Mythology at Thu Jul 26, 2012 14:13pm
5 Reasons Why Will Riker Creeps Me Out "there’s no denying the omnipresence of William Thomas Riker in the collective consciousness of science..." on 5 Reasons Why Will Riker Creeps Me Out at Fri Mar 16, 2012 17:38pm
I Am Not a Number!: <em>The Prisoner</em> "Great column. But I have to disagree about "The Girl Who Was Death"--I'd say it's one of the best, if..." on I Am Not a Number!: The Prisoner at Fri Jan 27, 2012 14:25pm
A Kind of Humor "Cyril Kornbluth saw combat (at the Battle of the Bulge) and he did write about war a little afterwards,..." on A Kind of Humor at Fri Jan 20, 2012 15:11pm
Robert E. Howard: The Creator of Conan "IanPJohnson@2 and joev@7: You never know what would have happened. Very probably REH would have continued..." on Robert E. Howard: The Creator of Conan at Wed Aug 17, 2011 15:27pm
Genre in the Mainstream: Does SFF Marginalize Characters? "There's a question being begged in most discussions of characterzation. Not all "well-drawn" characters..." on Genre in the Mainstream: Does SFF Marginalize Characters? at Tue Jun 28, 2011 13:53pm
Hugo Nominees: 1979 "Bensen's And Having Writ... is an alternate history story where a crew of alien space travellers avoid..." on Hugo Nominees: 1979 at Sun Apr 17, 2011 16:20pm
Hugo Nominees: 1978 "@4 DemetriosX: "Blood! was a double album of Fritz Leiber reading 2 of his Jack the Ripper stories and..." on Hugo Nominees: 1978 at Sun Apr 10, 2011 13:53pm
<em>LotR</em> re-read: Appendices "Tolkien actually mentions, obliquely, the rejection of an early version of The Silmarillion in the foreword..." on LotR re-read: Appendices at Fri Mar 25, 2011 21:26pm
How <em>The World of Star Trek</em> Taught Me to Write "Good points here. I thought this and the companion book (THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES) were great--reread..." on How The World of Star Trek Taught Me to Write at Tue Mar 22, 2011 01:32am
Hugo Nominees: 1975 "I have theoretical objections to The Dispossessed; it's far from my favorite Le Guin novel. Her notion..." on Hugo Nominees: 1975 at Sun Mar 20, 2011 13:46pm
"Religion was an important part of Vonnegut's early novels. Cat's Cradle is organized around the religion..." on Religious Science Fiction at Fri Jan 28, 2011 20:31pm
"I was never a huge Ellery Queen fan, but now I'm going to have to go back and look at some of those books,..." on Packaging the Detective, Part 1 at Mon Dec 13, 2010 18:05pm
"I don't think that A Case of Conscience necessarily takes place "in a universe in which Christian theology..." on Aliens and Jesuits: James Blish’s A Case of Conscience at Mon Nov 29, 2010 21:38pm
Historical Zombies: Mummies, <em>The Odyssey</em>, and Beyond "Paula @6: I figured. There's always more to talk about on subjects like these. I should have said above,..." on Historical Zombies: Mummies, The Odyssey, and Beyond at Mon Sep 13, 2010 17:17pm
Historical Zombies: Mummies, <em>The Odyssey</em>, and Beyond "More zombie-like than the ghosts of classical necromancy are the nightwalking corpses of medieval Scandinavia...." on Historical Zombies: Mummies, The Odyssey, and Beyond at Mon Sep 13, 2010 13:19pm
"Isn't it small-c catholic here? (Not to quibble.) (Okay, to quibble.) I liked the post: thinking about..." on Why Science Fiction? at Mon Aug 23, 2010 16:35pm
Heinlein Biographer Tells All "“Heinlein was to no small extent responsible for turning a pulp entertainment into something that could..." on Heinlein Biographer Tells All at Mon Aug 16, 2010 23:10pm
A brief thought about why Heinlein discussions frequently become acrimonious "Authoritativeness might be part of the answer, but I think SJN might be closer to the mark. People who've..." on A brief thought about why Heinlein discussions frequently become acrimonious at Mon Aug 16, 2010 18:13pm
"The protagonist was so ill-conceived I couldn't even dislike her. She seemed like a set of convenient..." on I'd love this book if I didn't loathe the protagonist: Harry Turtledove and Judith Tarr’s Household Gods at Thu Jun 10, 2010 16:56pm
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