The Blog That Time Forgot

Sphere and block and pyramid ran together, seemed to seethe. I had again that sense of a quicksilver melting. Up from them thru...

Urgh. How very unrealistic . I love realism in my speculative fiction, but I am by no means beholden to it. I can enjoy realistic scien...

  Image taken from This Was The Wizard , courtesy of Down The Tubes Eventually Willie Blain became Managing Editor of all of the Thomso...

He and his followers were well armed and accoutered. Some of the men bore coils of rope and grapplinghooks to be employed in the escalad...

I watched every new beginning for Star Trek since "Encounter at Farpoint" first aired on BBC2 . I was a wee 6-year-old then, ...

My earliest Star Wars memories are not of the original films, surprisingly enough. The first time I ever watched A New Hope was in its...

We knew then, that we were being changed... and made part of their world. We didn't know for what purpose... but we knew, we would be...

I hadn't had the chance to discuss this new collection of short stories which is just the sort of thing I love, but recent revelati...

To my utter outrage, there was no option to select Scotland at the Pacific Rim Jaeger Designer . They have Togo and the Vatican City, but...

The plight of the misunderstood orc Taking a brief time out from my work, I've been having a gander at several things. One was...

“( Star Trek ) always felt like a silly, campy thing. I remember appreciating it, but feeling like I didn’t get it. I felt it didn’t...

No Darth Vader, though. So I've given you my thoughts on the previous Star Wars film , and since I've now seen Star Wars Into ...

 C'est la vie. "How do we know that your 'correct history' is the right one? The best one?" "Because, Jim...

Yes, the '80s remake madness continues as John Hughes's strangest film (apparently loosely adapted from Al Feldstein's ...

Ever since Lost Soul Andy introduced me to MrBTongue's series "Tasteful, Understated Nerd Rage" to me, I've been ent...

World Book Day 2013 falls on my 29th birthday, which makes me almost as happy as this little chap: So I'm going to try out somet...

Courtesy of Black Gate , I came across Lotus' latest write-in poll for The Best Fantasy/Science Fiction works of the 20th and 21st centu...

(I have a post regarding the comic launch in the works, but until then, here's a quick post) On a whim, I decided to pick this up back...

"The Frost-Giant's Daughter" may be only 9 pages long, but it's one of Howard's biggest stories, tying in an awfu...

"A star of darkness shone on her birth, of darkness and unrest. Where ever she goes shall be blood spilling and men dying. I knew it wh...