Raritania

As regular readers of this blog (all two of you, unless I'm miscounting by two) know, I have been watching the superhero movie bubble fo...

As is well known by now to anyone who pays much attention to films of the type, Warner Bros. got the Wonder Woman film made, and got it out ...

When it comes to "info-dumping" and "incluing" a considerable current of thought about science fiction hews to the stand...

In his book How Fiction Works James Wood early on sings the praises of Gustave Flaubert as the founder of "modern realist narration,...

Having been both impressed and disappointed by James Wood's How Fiction Works --impressed by his lucid exposition of some literary funda...

Writing Cyberpunk, Steampunk and Wizardry I produced a history of science fiction that was most concerned with the genre's most recent ...

Picking up the first volume in Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider series, I was unsurprised to see that he took many of his cues from classic...

New York: Baen, 1986, pp. 407. It seems that once again I am reviewing a novelist who was once a Big Name but has since slipped into obscu...

For at least a decade now the bestseller lists have seemed to be ever more dominated by works of young adult fiction. Accordingly to the dat...

H.B. Lyle recently penned an interesting article on the scarcity of working-class protagonists in spy fiction --about which he is, of course...