Worst Book Cover Ever?
Is this book cover for Alien Sex, a fantasy sci-fi short-story compilation, the worst ever? Let’s look at the evidence. The background color is pus gray usually reserved for orphan-grade…
Tag: criticism
Sweat of (Something’s) Brow
There has been much criticism over the recent Supreme Court ruling in the case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Unfortunately, critics have a fundamental misunderstanding of what the Court…
Welcome to the New Apocalypse – Same as the Old Apocalypse
Would anyone be surprised to wake up in the midst of a zombie apocalypse? Or are our minds conditioned to expect any deep sleep, any extended hospital stay, carries at…
How quickly we forget…
In a recent interview with Christopher Nolan, the first question asked was, “Where did you get the idea of being able to invade the dreams of others [the concept for…
Zombies – What Is Hip?
The story “Dreams of Zombies” is about the desperate chase for the next big idea. The narrator is this poor schmo who somehow thinks he can make a living writing….
Wastelands…
I, like so many others in the reading public, went through a Stephen King phase. It was in junior high for me, when I bought his books by the yard…
Technology Reveals our Psychosis
J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise is like MySpace pages or user comments on a blog about Glenn Beck or Michael Vick – it’s a good place to lose your faith in humanity….
It always happens…
When you’re way way way way down at the bottom of the writing world, it seems every time you look up, there’s a luminary (or at least someone with better…
Science as a Wedge
Back in the day, there were always rumors about big colleges accepting more freshman than the school could handle – but then forcing these wide-eyed fledglings through an intensely difficult…
The Midwife Toad
The Case of the Midwife Toad, by Arthur Koestler, focuses on the dispute between the neo-Darwin clan and Lamarckian proponents of the inheritance of acquired characteristics. The personal disputes that…