Author Spotlight: Eljay Daly
The long history of the Bitterdark and the Alwaystar feels to me like a cake: wide layers, complex and dark, whole strata of events–but the secret allure is the rich band of sweetness that holds the layers together
Archive for October 2010
Films of High Adventure: Halloween Special!
The Worst Witch is adorably dreadful in all the best ways. Everyone appears to be having such a good time, and the children, while they might not be Hollywood-caliber actresses, really do get the authentic dynamic of girls in close quarters down pat.
The Top Ten Hammer Films to Horrify You This Halloween
Hammer, the legendary movie studio that churned out Gothic thrillers at a brisk clip for nearly two decades between the late 1950s and the mid-1970s, has left behind an impressive catalog, liberally studded with some of B-cinema’s finest. It can be hard to know where to begin, but Nick and Genevieve are up to the challenge. By their cheesy-cinema powers combined, they’ve come up with a list of the top ten Hammer films you have to see.
Bitterdark
Mizein had become a summer queen, clad in brilliant color: a gown of iris petals, deep blue veined in purple; ropes of lapis, amethysts, amber; hair as brown as wild earth.
Beer Helps: Lavie Tidhar
Do we “need” spaceships? I think the argument that’s been made repeatedly about science fiction, for a long time now, that the dream of space so central to its early premise has failed. Space, especially in the context of science fiction, is not a physical space but a powerful metaphor, if you like, about escape.
How Frodo and Sam Were “Mostly Gay”
An article by Robert Kunzig in the June, 2008 issue of Psychology Today offers not one but three answers to the mystery of homosexuality’s existence, and further proof that homosexuality is natural. While the research he discusses focuses on mundane earth-folk (and particularly males), I’d say these same answers would apply equally whether you’re from earth or Middle Earth.
Monsters
There is a monster in me. I am a monster in him. Or perhaps that word means nothing, and a monster is merely the alien we do not know and therefore fear?
Author Spotlight: Willow Fagan
I think that sometimes dramatic changes happen in people’s lives (fictional and real) but I’m not sure that I believe in clean breaks; in my experience, change always takes times, and occurs in spirals and layers rather than straight lines.
The Interior of Mister Bumblethorn’s Coat
An antelope or a gazelle, tiny as a beetle, tumbled out of his coat sleeve and splatted on the floor below. Mister Bumblethorn studiously ignored this.
Author Spotlight: Toiya Kristen Finley
I’ve mentioned that Virgil’s story in many ways is my own. Over the years, I’ve often thought of those journals and the two people who lived in the house. The man who built it. The woman who lived there and disguised herself as a man
