"I am Locutus of Borg."
Captain Picard
Star Trek: the Next Generation
"The Best of Both Worlds, Part 1"
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Quote
There's no such thing as a bad idea. Just poorly executed awesome ones."
Damon
Vampire Diaries
"The Dinner Party"
Damon
Vampire Diaries
"The Dinner Party"
Monday, December 5, 2011
Quote
"Pardon me, by why is Lieutenant Barclay being referred to clandestinely as a vegetable?"
Data
Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Hollow Pursuits"
Data
Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Hollow Pursuits"
Friday, November 25, 2011
The Muppets
The Muppets is either a charming, sweet movie brimming with the best kind of nostalgia, or a rather disturbing look into Jason Segel's mind.
Either way, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Either way, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Sad
Anne McCaffrey 1926-2011
Anne McCaffrey was without doubt one of the five writers who most influenced my reading of science fiction and fantasy. Where many people see Pern as fantasy dressed up as science fiction, (with an implicit sneer, as if that's a bad thing) I see fantasy transformed into the science fiction idiom, with all the necessary rigor that entails.
This is particularly true in the earliest Pern stories and books, which feature not only science, but sophisticated politics and characters who need cunning, not magic, to save themselves. If you start with the The Dragonriders of Pern, you find yourself plunked into a medieval society sorely in need of scientific advancement and, dare we say, enlightenment. Just look at how poor Menolly is treated at the beginning of the Harper Hall trilogy.
Along with the Pern books, I most fondly remember Crystal Singer and Killashandra, two lovely and original science fiction romances.
She will live on in the pantheon of the greats.
Anne McCaffrey was without doubt one of the five writers who most influenced my reading of science fiction and fantasy. Where many people see Pern as fantasy dressed up as science fiction, (with an implicit sneer, as if that's a bad thing) I see fantasy transformed into the science fiction idiom, with all the necessary rigor that entails.
This is particularly true in the earliest Pern stories and books, which feature not only science, but sophisticated politics and characters who need cunning, not magic, to save themselves. If you start with the The Dragonriders of Pern, you find yourself plunked into a medieval society sorely in need of scientific advancement and, dare we say, enlightenment. Just look at how poor Menolly is treated at the beginning of the Harper Hall trilogy.
Along with the Pern books, I most fondly remember Crystal Singer and Killashandra, two lovely and original science fiction romances.
She will live on in the pantheon of the greats.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Quote
"Fantasy, unlike science fiction, relies on a moral universe: it is less an argument with the universe than a sermon on the way things should be..."
Rhetorics of Fantasy
by Farah Mendlesohn
2008
Rhetorics of Fantasy
by Farah Mendlesohn
2008
Friday, November 18, 2011
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