As a personal social experiment, I lived for a month like it was 1985. Now I'm back with some insights and observations. First and foremost, it's not easy pretending it's four decades earlier when nobody else is playing along. The Internet has become mandatory for making restaurant reservations, planning trips, or buying insurance. Going without GPS,... Continue Reading →
I am sick to my stomach, I really am. What bothers me most, I think, is that we seem to be living in a post-ethics world. Apparently, nobody cares about decency anymore, or kindness, or compassion. What the fuck happened to us? Seriously? America was the shining city on the hill. America was the beacon... Continue Reading →
In the 1980 film Somewhere in Time, Christopher Reeve (of Superman fame) plays a man who falls in love with a portrait of a young woman long dead. His obsession with her photo leads him to discard everything that reminds him of the seventies, and following a rather intense night of self-hypnosis, he travels back... Continue Reading →
WARNING: RANT AHEAD If you genuinely enjoy reading fantasy---if you delight in the works of Homer, Burroughs, Tolkien, Sanderson, Rothfuss, or any author who dabbles in speculative storytelling, you owe it to yourself to pick up the books in the Aenya Series. But if you're looking to satisfy some voyeuristic urge or wish to justify your... Continue Reading →
Am I really doing this? Yep. This guy (me), who grew up on a steady diet of He-Man and D&D, an author known for action, adventure, and monsters bleeding out across the pages of his own books, chose to pick up and read the most chic-flickiest of books ever written, and you know what? I... Continue Reading →
It's that time again, folks! It's that time when I share with you, dear listener, the inane, frustrating, and sometimes inspiring messages (like the one below) I receive from across the social media landscape regarding the epic fantasy that is the Aenya Series, which, let me remind you yet again, is NOT smut and never has been... Continue Reading →
Parts Terminator, parts Spielberg's A.I. (Philip K. Dick's Supertoys Last All Summer Long), parts Pinocchio, T.J. Klune's In The Lives of Puppets is a dystopian Sci-Fi adventure lacking in thrills and imagination. The plot revolves around Victor, the young protagonist and the last human child on Earth, built by a robot father. While this device... Continue Reading →
Pet Sematary is unquestionably Stephen King's darkest novel. In the introduction to my copy, he admits he wasn't sure he wanted to put this one out there. While there are plenty of supernatural aspects to the novel, particularly in the later segments, Sematary stands apart from King's other works by delving into real-life tragedy and... Continue Reading →
The worst possible book you could be reading when you're in the hospital being treated for cancer, and you're seriously contemplating your mortality, is Stephen King's Pet Sematary. King even admits he almost didn't publish Sematary due to its bleak subject matter, so why he would begin to write such a thing is beyond me.... Continue Reading →
Can a totally nude heroine become a lightning rod for feminism? Or does sex appeal and the gratification of the male gaze distract from messages of equality? Thelana lives naked, fights naked, and adventures through the world of Aenya naked, but only because she chooses to do so, refusing to be defined by others. When, in Ages... Continue Reading →
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