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, DC got the Wonder Woman film made, and got it out this summe...

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

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

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...

Ordinarily discussion of the publishing industry does not even acknowledge the existence of the frustrated writer thwarted in their first pu...

I don't think I've watched the Fusion TV Channel before this past week--but while scanning the TV schedule I did recently notice the...

London: Cassell, 1966, pp. 186. As I have remarked here before, William Haggard's novels rarely get mentioned today --but when referen...

It is very clear that we have not entered a post-scarcity age with regard to the more material essentials of life--energy, food, housing. We...

New York: M.S. Mill & Company and William Morrow & Co., 1960, pp. 241. Paul Stanton's Village of Stars is interesting as an e...