Kaiju Shakedown‘s Grady Hendrix has a new ebook out, Satan Loves You, combining Satan, crappy jobs and professional wrestling. Hendrix writes: “Sometimes I don’t want to think about what readers are looking for right now. Sometimes I don’t want to worry about what the marketing department needs or […]
Some titles are born great. Some titles achieve greatness, usually through the hard work of an editor, agent, or author (who probably ripped out chunks of her own hair in the process). And some titles will never come closer to greatness than possibly containing some of the same […]
The Gamer Hermit reminisces about his first experience with D&D and unboxes a mint set. ” My sojourn into the magical world of fantasy role playing games began back in the summer of 1981. My brother had just returned home from his enlistment in the Air Force and…out […]
The 1984 documentary, Black Hollywood: Blaxploitation and Advancing an Independent Black Cinema, is available, for free and in its entirety, online. Solid. (via Jay Potts of World of Hurt)
On the occasion of Dr. Roger Corman, Ph.D. receiving his second honorary doctorate, PopcornBiz interviews the good doctor and looks back over Corman’s career in B-film.
Ursula Le Guin writes about fellow science fiction author, China Miéville: “China Miéville knows what kind of novel he’s writing, calls it by its name, science fiction, and exhibits all the virtues that make it an intensely interesting form of literature. It’s a joy to find this […]