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Monthly Archives: June 2008

Writer lists are hard to make

Thursday, June 19, 2008

The SFX Magazine list of science fiction and fantasy’s top 100 writers surprised me, especially when I scanned the full 100.  These sorts of lists always degrade into a sort of desert island scenario for me, and I spend more time rearranging people than reading more good books (which is all I want the list […]

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Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Lemony Snicket, who wrote the delightful Series of Unfortunate Events, has written a book of aphorisms. I loved his other books, though I haven’t finished the Series, and this one is in a similar tone.  I think some of it is taken from the Series, though I’m not sure. While there’s usually some wisdom under […]

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Signal to Noise

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Signal to Noise was written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Dave McKean—I don’t want to say ‘drew by’ because McKean, as usual, does much more than draw. The story originally ran in 1989, in the magazine The Face—the fashion marrow of the 80’s—to communicate what the new decade would mean. It’s the story of […]

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Der Golem

Friday, June 13, 2008

I just watched Der Golem: wie er in die Welt kam, a silent horror film made in 1920, directed by Henrik Galeen and Paul Wegener, and written by Henrik Galeen and Gustav Meyrink. It’s part of a trilogy, though most of the footage from the first film is lost. I confess: none of those names […]

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