Riffing on Hamlet
So many Royal Shakespeare Company people riff on Hamlet.
No Place in Space
To the Stars By Hard Ways (Cherez ternii k zvyozdam, 1981) was based on Kirill Bulychev’s short story, A Difficult Child. In that story, a young humanoid (male, in this case) is found in space, part of a group of similar aliens who have been sent to Earth […]
“Some Thoughts on The Last Jedi”
Friend of the Gutter Jessica Ritchey has a lovely piece on The Last Jedi. “The mythic cliffhanger of The Force Awakens is what I needed in 2015 at the end of a brutal year. The grumpy, startling conclusion of that cliffhanger is what I needed in 2017. Stories, […]
Wayne Barlowe’s Aliens
The Internet Archive has Barlowe’s Guide To Extraterrestrials, and you can look at it here!
Something to Sing About
With friends hovering within sight of wrapping up secondary school, leaving home, and heading to university, Anna (Ella Hunt) has decided to let uni wait a year while she backpacks Australia. She is working extra hours at the local bowling alley to pay for the ticket; she has […]
“The Decade Comic Book Nerds became Our Cultural Overlords”
Alex Pappademas writes about “The Decade Comic Book Nerds became Our Cultural Overlords”: “The reason all this should worry you, even if you have zero investment in superhero movies or their relative position vis-a-vis film culture as a whole, is that the response to Scorsese is a populist […]
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