THURSDAY We started the night with geeky wonder at the two-pronged badge holders we received at registration. Swanky — they even have a pocket for business cards. The program has a wonderful Moebius illustration on the front and selection of images on color plates inside. We ran into a few people we knew right off….
Category: fantasy
Whirling toward World Fantasy
Non-stop craziness! Yesterday was a day of printing up multiple copies of three different plays for various submissions before running off to our lovely anniversary dinner. I just hope I got the right version in the right envelopes. There’s one full-length play and two ten-minute ones; the latter are an easier way to get a…
Beowulf Rated: PG-13
The teevee spots have started. My students were suitably scornful of the look of it (and the sound of it — right, Mildred?). But flog it, I do! Hee hee — it will be fun.
Flogging Beowulf Again
I have been remiss in my duties as webmaster, so it behooves me to link to my friend Scott’s medieval blog where he points us to close-ups of the Beowulf action figures. Well — hmmmm. They are indeed interesting in the fullest possible sense of the word. We looked at them in the Medieval Texts…
The Golden Compass
It’s hard not to get excited about the movie version of Philip Pullman‘s The Golden Compass, especially with its glorious new trailer. As Gene says, let’s hope that all the attention didn’t go into the special effects, but rather on capturing Pullman’s beautifully realized world inspired by Blake and Milton. So I went to the…
Missing Octavia Butler
While looking for another quote by Butler, I ran across this quote as well:Writers use everything. If it doesn’t kill you, you probably wind up using it in your writing. So true. It’s a habit that becomes part of your radar. Even in the midst of something horrible, there’s that thought — hmmm, how can…
IROSF Boskone Review On Line!
Head on over to the Internet Review of Science Fiction for my write up of Boskone 44 and a whole lot of essays, interviews and reviews!