Witch: The Old Woman
Not all witches are always out to suck a child’s soul – or fatten them up and eat them
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Fantasy Cartography, Part 2
Fantasy cartography is like playing SimCity; first you create and then you take an almost gleeful joy in the destruction before rebuilding from the ashes.
The Artful Collector: Where are our Art Critics?
Criticism is commonplace in the music industry, in film, and in the world of “fine art”. Shouldn’t we have that kind of critic in our field of collecting, too?
Anime roundup 9/13/2013: Cut Day
In this week’s viewing: The Eccentric Family lays bare a dastardly plot, Gatchaman Crowds creeps out its local viewers, and more!
Interview with Pat Mills, Founder of 2000AD
Over four decades Pat Mills has been a major force in keeping the British comics industry alive. I caught up with him to chat about the reappearance of one of his most enduringly popular characters, the Celtic barbarian, Sláine.
Embracing Dragon Age’s Source Material
(The game’s) unvoiced goal is to revive the old days of role playing games. As much as it can, it attempts to cop the vibe of classic titles like Baldur’s Gate and Planescape: Torment, Dungeons and Dragons based properties
Saving Doctor Who – Episode 2: Arcs, Horror and Screwdrivers
Every generation of children has the right to be scared senseless and feel a powerful urge to watch from behind the sofa.
Anime roundup 9/6/2013: Always Look On the Bright Side of Life
In this week’s viewing: Gatchaman Crowds continues to go to unexpected places, the Shimogamo family tree contains surprises, and more!
Shameless Self Promotion: “Metropolis” exhibition in Wellington
For being such an eclectic bunch of people, the exhibition seems surprizingly congruent, and everyone’s work looks pretty fab
Interview with Chad Connell from The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Like Twilight and The Hunger Games, The Mortal Instruments offers something new and exciting for young adults…this series also brings more of an edge to modern fantasy
De lo virtual a lo presencial: las tertulias en Hispanoamérica
El pasado fin de semana se llevó a cabo la centésima Tertulia Caraqueña de Ciencia Ficción, Fantasía y Terror.
Excerpt: Thom Blood by Terence Jackson
Thom Blood is the second installment in the Blood Underground series by author Terence Jackson. Blood Underground chronicles the lives of a particular clan of vampires and their minions who inhabit the unused and deserted train tunnels that crisscross underneath the city of London.
Anime roundup 8/30/2013: I Think I’m a Clone Now
In this week’s viewing: Ginka Shirokane meets an evil mirror of herself, Jō Hibiki meets an evil mirror of himself, and one of the Shimogamo clan is his own worst enemy.
The Art of the Game
Illustration is also of paramount importance to another venue for science fiction and fantasy and that is as part of the packaging that goes along with role-playing and video games.
The Geek Test: What’s Your Score?
I believe people of all types should be able to join in geek events and have fun whether they’re sufficiently geek credentialed or not, but I wondered how one might one go about quantitatively evaluating “geekiness”
Introduction to SFF – 6 – Discovery
One of the joys of reading magazines, as opposed to books, is the thrill of discovery.
Review – Anime by Colin Odell & Michelle Le Blanc
Anime is not intended as a definitive guide, but as wide ranging introduction to the field. Even so, seasoned anime watchers will find the book valuable for the opinions expressed
Back to School: Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin
The book is like those rare courses some of us are lucky enough to take–the ones you don’t want to end.
Walking the River at LoneStarCon 3
LoneStarCon 3 promises to be one of the truly landmark events in the history of science fiction. Something so magnificent owes a great debt to San Antonio Fandom
Fantasy Cartography for Writers (part 1)
Fantasy cartography isn’t new, of course, from Lord of the Rings to Throne of the Crescent Moon, maps help readers to connect with the universe, to make unfamiliar locales a little more familiar. It’s always fun when there’s a heroic journey involved, be it a quest to dump a shiny bracelet in fiery nastiness or running from doom.
The Artful Collector: What Gets YOUR attention at a Worldcon Art Show?
I must confess, when it comes to SF/F the more you see of it, the easier it is to become innured to its novelty. Familiarity with dragons, wizards, and flying saucers can breed not contempt – but worse: indifference and inattention.
Introduction to SFF – 5 – Return to the Pulps
Of course, one of the great things about magazines, as with anthologies, is exactly the unexpected, the little surprises, the unknowns whose work thrills you
Anime roundup 8/23/2013: Your Princess Is In Another Reality
In this week’s viewing: Space Brothers gets drop-kicked, Day Break Illusion causes a lecture on honorifics, and more!
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