The Galapagos Frontier Thesis
The formative American experience was the conquest of the western frontier. Would science fiction and fantasy exist without the frontier model? What does Japan's parallel conquest of Hokkaido tell us...
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Deconstructing Horror: Haunted Houses
Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today I wish, I wish he’d go away… - Hughes Mearns, Antigonish We are all haunted houses. - H. D.. A Tribute To Freud...
View ArticleThe Conjuring (2013)
The Conjuring may be the single most frightening movie I've ever seen. It's the perfect balance between Classicism and Modernism.
View ArticleOoky Spooky Animanga Part V: The Japanese Fascination with Spirits
Every culture has its ghost stories. Here in the West, ours tend toward narratives depicting souls who died violent deaths and have returned to take revenge. Or perhaps we tell tales of those who have...
View ArticleHalloween in Japan
In Japan, Halloween is pumpkins and ghosts, just as Christmas is Santas and reindeer.
View ArticleSelf Publishing: Evolution of a Book Jacket
An inside look at the process of developing a cover for a self-published book
View ArticleREVIEWS: An Hilarious Short Story, a Horrific Movie, and a Book
Why do the short story and the movie get adjectives in the title, but not the book? Steve tells why.
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Poetry – Eye to the Telescope “Ghosts”
Eye to the Telescope is the online journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. A different person edits each issue (being published quarterly) and I myself have edited one – No. 16. The current...
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BOOK REVIEWS: GARDNER’S “ALL THOSE EXPLOSIONS…” AND ROUNDS, MARKS II & III
This week Steve reviews three newer books: one is outstanding and the other two are worth reading. What’re the odds on that?
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