From Modern Mythcraft to Magical Surrealism

Archive for November 2010

Author Spotlight: Jay Lake and Shannon Page

Even as a raving atheist, I wanted to reframe this question as one of salvation through good works as contrasted with salvation through faith.

Films of High Adventure: Blade Runner

Philip K. Dick apparently criticized the script, although he was reportedly pleased with the finished film. Considering how good Blade Runner looks, who wouldn’t be?

Spreading the Signal

Featuring props from the actual Firefly show and Serenity movie, in-jokes and cameos from actors, authors and musicians, Browncoats: Redemption is a movie made by fans, for fans.

From the Countries of Her Dreams

Laris, of late priestess of the goddess Marya, now priestess of Mother Iron, awoke with a sweating, fearful trembling.

Author Spotlight: Barbara A. Barnett

Two people aren’t going to remember the same event in the same way, so I imagined that having both versions overlapping in one’s head would become maddening.

Mortis Persona

Caldus took the mask with trembling hands, the wax oily against his sweating palms. “I will honor this death with my life.”

Vaguely Elemental: E. Catherine Tobler

For me, the circus is much like the train: it’s about possibility. The circus is a place of magic, much like the stage of a theater, where anything can happen.

Liminal

It was the bridge that called to me and pulled me back, because that’s where I’d met my end.

Author Spotlight: Mari Ness

I’m not sure if I would marry the Beast for his library. I would be very tempted to marry the library, though. Is that legal yet?

Mademoiselle and the Chevalier

Perhaps, some suggested, potential suitors were dissuaded by the family gargoyles, of which, it must be admitted, the family home had quite many.