Dean Koontz has been on the bestseller list with his books for quite a few decades now; one of his current series started with a book called Odd Thomas in 2003. Odd (that’s his first name) sees dead people. I see an old idea in new clothes.
“The doors of vast airlocks opened.” Some nice 1930s pulp illustrations with the swell captions of the day. Art by Elliot Dold here and here. Art by M. Marchioni here and here.
I just can’t convey the awesomeness of stop-motion GI Joes performing John Carpenter’s The Thing. (via Dirty Robot).
You like her articles, now check out Romance Editor Chris Szego’s award-winning, super fantastic short story, “Cry Wolf.”
“These are more and more not the movies I fell in love with and I wonder if people watching them ten years from now will even be seeing the same film I did, or if Greedo will forever be shooting first, if PEKING OPERA BLUES will end with […]
It kind of goes without saying that the Romance genre is full of tropes and archetypes (though just to be clear: the happy ending is not archetype, but architecture). Some come in plot form: the rags-to-riches story, for instance, a modern take on the Cinderella mythos. Sometimes they […]