June 2009
1 post
Musical Orgasm - MO
April 2009
1 post
Times Higher Education - 'The book everyone wishes... →
(via readyourownbooks)
March 2009
26 posts
if critics persist consult your broadsword
Shrinking Universe - Muse
Alastair Reynold’s Inhibitor series is the exact kind of science fiction moolah that I tend to get crazy with. The worlds of Chasm City and Revelation Space are infused with gothic elements that are so dark, the novels feel like they’re set in some far future underworld. . Not only that, Reynolds mixes quantum physics, genetics and gothic and noir elements into his worlds. My first...
Clive Barker
Well how about that. I just discovered that one of my favorite writers, Clive Barker, is gay. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. In any case, I love him even more. You got to admire the dude for his macabre imagination. When I was in high school, I eagerly sat through the five Hellraiser films. While the quality of the films decreased (rather enormously) as the franchise plodded on,...
“With the possible exception of Buddhism, no religion we know about is capable of...”
– Clive James. I tend to think that only a religion which stands apart from society can meaningfully refer to the proposed eternal world which is its proper concern; excessive preoccupation with the minutiae of contemporaneity degrades any faith.
Like most of Cultural Amnesia, the essay offers...
Twitter Fiction
Twitter Fiction
at least the dude made this junk of a website to something useful like, get-your-damn-ADD-infested-kids-to-read kind of thing, sort of.
Via Orbit Books:
Jeff Somers — author of The Electric Church, The Digital Plague, and the forthcoming The Eternal Prison — is tweeting a short story, a few lines at a time.
the sense of vastness that the open, undeveloped property conveyed—he...
“The secret story is the one we’ll never know, although we’re living it from day...”
– Roberto Bolano, Last Evenings on Earth (via chayenne)
February 2009
17 posts
Fiction Review: The Naming of Cats
The Naming of Cats by E.K. Entrada (Philippines Free Press – February 14, 2009)
You know me and realist stories. Either it has to be superbly written or has a subject/topic that completely catches my attention. One such example would be U. Eliserios’ ‘Autos’, that enthralling piece of relationshit and pyromania. I could really see the fire dancing as the character burned away the lives of her...
The Bible Should Be Required Reading For Children,...
(link via Philippine Genre Stories and Zen in Darkness)
“Take any of the metaphysical poets, almost any of the Victorian poets,” he says. “Even reading the great romantics like Keats requires you to know things about the Fall, who some of the people in the Bible are, ideas of sinfulness and virtue. It’s also essential for Tennyson, Browning and Arnold, and needs to be...
Under the Iron Sky - Kaiti Kink (Iron Sky OST)
“The moon is old, Qfwfq agreed, pitted with holes, worn out. Rolling naked...”
– Italo Calvino, ‘Daughters of the Moon’
An up-to-date list of every Crayola Crayon color... →
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