Failing again. Failing better.
When I think of Arcade Fire, the image that comes to my mind is one from Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s book, GOOD OMENS. In that book, there is a scene where Crowley is tearing across highways in a flaming wreck of a car that is held together with nothing more than his sheer force…
Yesterday I came across a great article by Elizabeth Bear on Clarkesworld Magazine, “Another Word: Dear Speculative Fiction, I’m Glad We Had this Talk.” In it, she talks about how as a young reader, sci-fi and fantasy were fun, whereas today, they are filled with cynicism and dystopias. Bear clarifies that she is not asking…
I’m always reading. I love it, and I can’t get enough of it. I think this blog has made that pretty obvious that I love science fiction and fantasy. But I feel like I’ve been playing catch up with my reading lately. For example, I just finished Reamde by Neal Stephenson. Finally, I know. But…
I realized that when I posted about Snuff, Terry Pratchett’s latest Discworld novel, people might be confused or intimidated about jumping into a series almost 40 books long that doesn’t run in a neat, linear fashion. Thankfully, as part of their Gateways to Geekery column, the Onion’s A.V. Club has posted a great breakdown of…
On Friday, October 14, I was able to see Terry Pratchett at the National Press Club. The format was a combination of reading, discussion between Pratchett and his longtime personal assistant Rob Wilkins, and a Q&A session (Pratchett was diagnosed with a rare form of early-onset Alzheimer’s, Posterior Cortical Atrophy, in 2007, making reading and…