Dollhouse
For all the Joss Whedon fans out there… Dollhouse Continue reading Dollhouse
Category: Fantasy and Science Fiction
Heroes
I’ve just bought Heroes season 1 on DVD. Well, when I say “just” there was getting home and watching the original 70 minute version of the pilot in between me buying it and now posting this message. The original version of the pilot? It would have been a different show – there’s a lot there about a planned terrorist attack… Anyway, I still have to … Continue reading Heroes
Robert Jordan – requiescat in pace
I’ve just learnt some shocking news: Robert Jordan, the author of the Wheel of Time series of fantasy novels, has passed away. (more details here) Although occasionally clumsily written, and though they’ve taken far too long to come out, they stand as one of my favourite series and an exercise in worldbuilding and storytelling that few have matched. What makes it worse is that the … Continue reading Robert Jordan – requiescat in pace
If Steven Brust can post this, so can I…
You are The Magician Skill, wisdom, adaptation. Craft, cunning, depending on dignity. Eleoquent and charismatic both verbally and in writing, you are clever, witty, inventive and persuasive. The Magician is the male power of creation, creation by willpower and desire. In that ancient sense, it is the ability to make things so just by speaking them aloud. Reflecting this is the fact that the Magician is … Continue reading If Steven Brust can post this, so can I…
Ended.
It’s 1:23pm, I’m in my office, and I’ve just finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It’s good. 🙂 Continue reading Ended.
I’m in my office…
It’s Saturday morning, just before 10am. I’m in my office, and I have Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in front of me. 🙂 Continue reading I’m in my office…
A few new DVD purchases
This week, I’ve bought a few DVDs… Around the World in 80 Days, starring David Niven. It’s a classic “cameo” film, in which the object of the film, it seems, is to see how many famous actors you can get into it at once. Niven won the Oscar for this film, probably as a tribute to all his other films… Citizen Kane, starring Mr Welles. … Continue reading A few new DVD purchases
Brust reads Order of the Stick!
Ok, this may sound trivial, but I’ve just discovered that my favourite living fantasy author, Steven Brust, reads Order of the Stick and gets distracted when Rich Burlew doesn’t update it promptly. That’s cool! Also cool is that he plays Neverwinter Nights, and that hewrites cool books. (Cool books being ones I really enjoy reading; see Brust’s Theory of Coolness). Favourite dead author? Roger Zelazny, … Continue reading Brust reads Order of the Stick!
Ysabel
The other book I picked up recently was Ysabel, by Guy Gavriel Kay. I haven’t written much about what I read, but Kay is one of my all-time favourite writers. Nearly all of his books are classics of the fantasy genre. Well, in my opinion they are. 🙂 Ysabel is a more subdued work than the regular style of Kay’s work, but very charming indeed. … Continue reading Ysabel
Renegade’s Magic
I’ve just finished reading Renegade’s Magic, the final book of Robin Hobb’s Soldier’s Son trilogy. I found it somewhat disappointing. As with some of her other books (final of the Assassin trilogy as well), Hobb has the main character too much a spectator to events. Well, that’s not true: Navarre spends a lot of the book as being the main protagonist of all the events, … Continue reading Renegade’s Magic