Game of Thrones Episode 4: The Spoils of War
“I had forgotten what a small and noisy people they are…I would bring them dragons, and they shout out for grapes.” “Grapes are real. A Continue Reading
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Game of Thrones Season 7: The Queen’s Justice
And now the rains weep over his hall, without a soul to hear. “Rains of Castamere” is best known as the Lannister anthem, but it’s Continue Reading
Game of Thrones Season 7: Stormborn
It’s been said by many characters, in many words, all the way back to Robert Baratheon in the second episode of Game of Thrones. “There’s a Continue Reading
Game of Thrones Season 7: Dragonstone
Fitting a show with the finish line in sight, the season premiere of Game of Thrones was pervaded with melancholy. From siblings remembering their dead Continue Reading
Heart-Shaped Box
One of my favorite things about discovering good art (whether that’s movies, music, or games) is when good art leads me to more good art. Continue Reading
Viable Paradise
This October, I was fortunate enough to attend Viable Paradise XVIII, an annual workshop meeting in Martha’s Vineyard for the XVIII-th time. We twenty-four happy Continue Reading
Review: The Last Werewolf
Stop what you’re doing and look up ennui in Urbandictionary. Then read this book. Humans are endlessly fascinated by new things: new books, new movies, new Continue Reading
Review: Dr. Sleep
Stephen King’s sequel to one of his most beloved books is decent enough, although it’s tough not to see its publication as a swipe at Continue Reading
Fantasy/Sci-Fi Book Review Roundup
Daylight Savings has ended, which means that Seattle can stop pretending to give us clement weather and get on with the natural cold grey dark. Continue Reading
Holy Crap It’s Republic of Thieves!
“FANTASY EVENT OF THE YEAR” is ad-copy noise, so blaring and ubiquitous as to be totally meaningless. Whose year are we even talking about? But Continue Reading
The Long Earth
I’m a sucker for alternate history and parallel worlds. You remember how bad Sliders was? I loved the first few seasons of that show. I Continue Reading
Something’s Fishy In the Canon: Shadows Over Innsmouth
Of all the strange and specific things about the canon of HP Lovecraft – the Cthulhu Mythos, which has no shortage of strange – the Continue Reading
Review: The Shadowed Sun, by NK Jemisin
I reviewed The Killing Moon back in June, and enjoyed it a great deal, both for its disparity from a lot of my fantasy reading Continue Reading
Pacific Rim – Yes there’s a book and it’s worth reading
Pacific Rim is a love letter to Godzilla and a visual feast. However, it’s still a big budget action movie full of explosions and monsters Continue Reading
I Knew GRRM When He Used To Rock’n’Roll: The Armageddon Rag
Most Song of Ice and Fire fans know by now that George R.R. Martin had a long and fruitful career before he ever turned the Continue Reading
Review – Turbulence, Samit Basu
It’d be a reach, not to mention an injustice, to say that the superhero is a wholly American concept. After all, people have been looking Continue Reading
Ecko Rising – Occupy Dungeons and Dragons
When we were approached by the friendly folks over at Titan Books to review a copy of one of their new releases, Ecko Rising, I Continue Reading
Review: The Killing Moon
Spec-fic author, noted degenerate, and Dorkadia favorite Chuck Wendig posted a good blog piece last week, On the Subject of Diversifying Your Bookshelves. Short version: Continue Reading