Metropolis
For it’s day, Metropolis must have been seen with amazement. Shoot, any movie back then was pretty amazing but when you add the fantastical themes and settings of Metropolis, you are certainly in the...
View ArticleFiction Crash?
I have admitted many times that I do not, in general, enjoy reading Science Fiction. There are several titles, however, that although based in a world of future imagination, are still valuable...
View ArticleXFX: Zombies and Shit
For an old English professor type, I enjoy sprinkling a few entertaining and decidedly non-literary books in with the more serious contemporary texts and those musty but time-honored classics. For...
View ArticleWilliam Gibson and Cyberspace
I just don’t relate to the work of William Gibson. I tried and unlike my aborted experiment with Anne Rice, I didn’t hate Gibson’s writing … it just didn’t seem to be worth spending my time reading....
View ArticleVenus On the Half-Shell
Imagine a planet dominated by a life form that maintains the soul of all past generations, allowing one day for each past life to control both body and mind. Then since thousands of generations have...
View ArticleAll Things Science Fiction
The mother planet, Earth, ruined and abandoned, is now a distant and unimportant memory. There is galactic war between galactic factions (presumably humanoid although who knows for sure). A new power...
View ArticleA Comment on Bizarro
A few years back I discovered the new genre advertised as Bizarro Fiction. It was very uneven but showed brief glimpses of true originality and exuberant fun. I suppose the ratio of good to bad writing...
View ArticleHell
You may have noticed that I read a lot of literature from Asia, especially Japanese literature. I still have a lot of classic and well thought of titles to go but sometimes I simply select a title...
View ArticleRock n Roll Babes From Outer Space
This is not a long lost novel by Dostoevsky .. or even Carlton Mellick III. RnRBFOS is a light, fun romp involving slackers, rock n roll, outer space babes, Bondi Beach, sex, drugs, eating habits,...
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