Link: James Blish of the Jungle
James Blish won his place in Science Fiction history through the critical and the popular. On the critical side, his novel A Case of Conscience Read More
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Link: Apocalyptic Fiction
Life is what happens to you when you aren’t paying attention. Usually these life events take the form of a surprise in one way or Read More
How Does Your Garden Grow? (Gardening For Horror Writers)
Last summer I had the chance to plant and harvest my first garden. The tranquility of weeding is a pleasure I’d recommend to any writer. Read More
“Thurnley Abbey” by Percival Landon
I have been reading the first issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. It was only The Magazine of Fantasy for this first Read More
The Dark Poets of Weird Tales
I would describe Marvin Kaye’s Weird Tales: The Magazine That Never Dies (1988) as an anthology for people who hate Weird Tales. Despite his loving Read More
Link: The Great White Space: Adventure Mythos
Re-reading Cthulhu Mythos fiction is not something I am apt to do. After reading literally hundreds of stories, ranging from canon tales to fanzine pastiches, Read More
Link: June 6, 2016: Predictions and Predilictions
On Valentine’s Day of this year we had a weird moment when some smarty pointed out that the replicant Pris from Bladerunner (played by Darryl Read More
Link: Posthumous Collaborations: Dollars From the Grave
I was reading an old Tangent Online interview with Leigh Brackett and Edmond Hamilton and I was struck by something. Here’s what they were talking Read More
The Lost Continent’s Monsters
C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne (1866-1944) was famous in the day (now largely forgotten) for a series of stories about a sailor named Captain Kettle. These Read More
A Crash Course in Creating Monsters
This post begins: Ready to start designing monsters? Take a deep breathe and….go! I like to draw my monsters when I’m designing. Not everybody has Read More