Someone You Can Worldbuild a Nest In: John Wiswell, Fictional Worlds, and Limitations
Worldbuilding discussions in genre fiction frequently miss the point.
Interpreting the Abyss: An Ode to Christopher Manson’s MAZE
The labyrinth inside an 80s puzzle book will never be solved, never die, and never let go of its victims.
Infernal Transmutation: Remembering K.J. Bishop’s The Etched City
In the surreal and slipstream, ambiguity is strength.
The Barbie Typewriter: Cracking Codes in Trademarked Pink
A little typewriter with a big secret.
No Country for Cringe Men: Remembering the Channel Awesome Anniversary Trilogy
Remembering the web's worst movies so you don't have to.
Science Fiction and the Death of the Sun
The driving force behind nihilistic visions of the future.
Nobody Wants to Buy The Future: Why Science Fiction Literature is Vanishing
We got to one of the futures Science Fiction proposed, and it sucked.
Concerning Habits: Purpose In Fiction and How to Defy It
I feel a pang when I reach the end of The Lord of the Rings because it means I must wake.
Finding Space for the “Literary” in Fantasy: A Reflection on A Woman of the Sword
A trend-defying novel about the "wrong" character told the "wrong" way.