Raritania

Recently I chanced upon John Rhys-Davies' nasty behavior toward Green Party MP Caroline Lucas on the BBC's Question Time . In partic...

I have been struck time and again by the number of trolls who claim to be intellectually superior to anyone they are likely to meet in their...

Nathan Farrugia's The Chimera Vector being the sort of thriller where plot twists and "big reveals" are critical to the enter...

Those who delve into the history of the more commercial kinds of fiction--the old pulps and paperbacks and so on--encounter what seem like e...

Recently reading David Sirota's Back to Our Future I thought again that the 1980s do define our decade, though the explanation I find s...

The original, EON-produced James Bond movies of the early 1960s are generally regarded as the starting point for the modern action film--the...

Darko Suvin's collection Metamorphoses of Science Fiction includes such classics of his criticism as "Estrangement and Cognition...

The last time I checked one still could not say the words "asshole" or "bullshit" on network television. Yet, academics ...

It seems to me that the label "troll" is much misused. Certain lazy writers will apply it to any criticism. Straightforward politi...

As James Cairns observes in his recent book The Myth of the Age of Entitlement , the term "entitlement" is defined by the Oxford E...

"What does it say about our society that it seems to generate an extremely limited demand for talented poet musicians but an apparently...

Time and again I have been struck by the absence of fiction in any medium--print literature, film, television, anything--which even makes a ...

In his classic Anti-Intellectualism in American Life Richard Hofstadter pointed to four principal sources--business, organized religion, ...

Ernest Cline followed up the success of Ready Player One with Armada , in which he clearly meant to produce another work of the same kind w...

MILD SPOILERS BELOW As a bestselling pop culture-soaked and action-packed young adult sci-fi novel set in a safely near future on Earth, E...