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Along with James Ellroy, Barbara Hambly, Lindsey Davis, Ian McEwan, Caleb Carr, Victor LaValle, Robert Harris, Joyce Carol Oates…

Turtledove was a professor but shifted to full time writing in the 1980s. A collleague of his in this regard is Barbara Hambly, who left her medievalist doctorate unfinished to become a full time writer. She doesn’t glamorize her milieus, either fantastic or historical (the Free Man of Color...

It’s all misdirection. They’re work on an Age of Sigmar show. Okay, or not.

A Song Of Ice And Fire isn’t told “I’m the right way” for a bunch of readers with intelligent, adult objections, most b by broadly about the accuracy of asserted historical precedents and whether even if true they constitute sufficient justification for things like the portrayal of sexual...

And “book” can also mean something copied by hand by a scribe, a Folio Society tome, a zine, and ebook, an audiobook…. Objection! Presumes facts not in evidence! Often we don’t! Always happy to see Wittgenstein come up in these things. The point strikes me as something that should be self-evident.

You can’t always be ideologically neutral. Take questions like “Is this group of people we’re considering selling to a bunch of delusional perverts who need to be suppressed?” And “Is that group genetically inferior in cognition to the point too few of them could actually play our games and...

Sure. It’s all about where I think an entry will have neighbors that make for productive comparisons I’m very impure in my taxonomy.

We do, but I think it’s a better horror move with an sf setting and story than it is an sf movie. I don’t think the supernatural element disqualifies from being sf (or we’d get into all sorts of ugly snarl including whether Christins, Muslims, etc. can write hard sf), but the focus of the...

Works for me. And we don’t evoke Valentino and his amazing gaze often enough in these sorry times.

After your trip, compare it to your experience, please.

Yup. A lot of would-be gaming pundits taken it as given that 1) a huge fraction of roleplaying books are made by soulless hacks just cranking them out and 2) they themselves can very reliably identify the books that way. Neither is true. I don’t think most game buyers consciously recognize it...

Well, that and romancing, and dealing with the kids.

Glad to help! Having more names for things enables goofiness about more things.

There’s collapse before the biggest and then the last of the wars. Mad Max makes brief but explicit mention of escalating resource depletion. The absence of innovative tech is part of the point - it’s no longer feasible, at least for social edges like Max’s (We don’t have enough to guess what...

The original Mad Max is a story of near-future society in the midst of collapse, an unusual moment to capture on screen and very much science-fictional.

I think of Silent Running as the last big af deal before Star Wars, but then I’m not fond of Logan’s Run. Like a lot of others, it’s no worse than ones o do, it just didn’t click for me.

Of course I am! The soteriology of RPGs is not to be taken lightly!

Really true about Stygian Librery. It’d fit most World of Darkness games, other modern strangeness, would liven up a lot of spacefaring games, the whole deal.

The kids have good taste! Guardians 3 is no worse than a bunch of films I love, and objectively better than a bunch of them. No criticisms.

Buckaroo Banzai would easily make a favorites list for me. It’s a latter-day pulp classic with an awesome soundtrack. Taken on its own, Iron Man is definitely an sf adventure.