The Lead, And How to Swing It
Insanely prolific blogger and book reviewer James Nicoll has a contest entitled Because My Tears Are Delicious To You. James has a lack of patience for exceptionally bad SF, along with a notoriously long idiosyncratic list of things in SF that especially set him off, and is challenging people to write the ultimate “make [...]
Annoyed at myself for being annoyed at myself for being annoyed at myself…
The other day, I was reading one of my own Journal Entries, trying to remind myself of why I wrote them and get back into the groove of writing them again. Now that I’m doing freelance work, though, I don’t have as much time to write as I used to. I have to produce value, [...]
Why I’m mad about it…
I suppose I should make clear that what makes me most annoyed about Winterson’s The Stone Gods (see previous post) is that the Used Furniture problem is more pernicious than just a good writer “slumming” around inside the SF universe, borrowing from the warehouse, or failing to think clearly either the justifications for her setting [...]
A premature book review: Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods
It’s hard to describe just how disappointed I am in Jeanette Winterson’s novel-length stab at science fiction, The Stone Gods. Winterson’s contemporary and historical fiction has a poetic sensibility that is beautiful beyond measure, a deftness of metaphor and exposition that will at times leave me breathless, unable to read another paragraph without pause [...]
This years Literary Bad Sex awards are out!
And while I agree that Philip Roth’s The Humbling deserves first place, I have to hold a special place in my heart for Ten Storey Love Song:
Meanwhile, down in Vaginaland, Mr Condom’s beginning to feel a bit iffy. He’s overheating. For some reason, the shagging seems to be twice as fast this evening, and [...]