Top 10 Most Commented-on Posts on WISB
The last few years have been really sporadic and crazy on this blog. It’s interesting to see which posts people find most intriguing, which is where this list comes from. So, without wasting any more of your time, here are the top 10 most commented-on posts on WISB: Science Fiction / Fantasy Awards: The Hugos […]
New Weird/Bizarro Summer Reading: Want to join me?
Over the next two months I will be researching and reading for an essay I am writing on the New Weird and Bizarro subgenres and their influence on SF/F in the last ten years. The list isn’t terribly long, and does include some older titles for historical reference, but I thought I would see if […]
Quick Note: Changes to Format and Suggestions
For those of you who regularly visit the actual webpage for WISB, you’ll have noticed that there are some things shifting around and new things springing up. Some of these new things are in rough shape, but as soon as I figure a few programming bits out they will start looking better. One of the […]
Random Excerpt: The Lands of the Alger
I had the pleasure of word warring1 with some folks from Young Writers Online the other day and I thought I’d share the 500-word bit that I wrote (it came out of nowhere). I’m calling it The Lands of the Alger for now, and I have no idea if it is going somewhere. All I […]
PCA/ACA Conference: Day Five and Six (The End)
Well, to wrap up my brief recap of the PCA/ACA conference, I have some general impressions, a discussion of a screening of the director’s cut of Aliens, a few more words about some panels I visited on the last day, and some new reading for the reading list! We’ll do it in that order. Also, […]
PCA/ACA Conference: Day Four (More Panels!)
The fourth day of my trip to the PCA/ACA conference proved to be as intellectually stimulating as the last, and it began with a fun discussion of cannibals! Here’s the recap, followed by more additions to the reading list: –The panel on cannibals in horror literature and film was somewhat disturbing. One of the panelists […]