Like pretty much every punk rocker in history, my first exposure to Angry Red Planet was the cover to the Misfits album Walk Among Us, which depicted the band being menaced by a giant…rat-bat-spider…thing. Or maybe it was working for them. The monster, like the album, was pretty […]
Memory is an unreliable narrator. It seems so absolutely sure of itself when it’s telling you things that it’s easy to forget it can’t wholly be trusted. There are always gaps and discrepancies, sections that get revised in light of subsequent events or reshaped to soften the sharpest […]
Recently I moderated a panel discussion on CanLit and the SF/F genre and it got me to thinking. Specifically, it got me thinking about memory. And that’s because if there’s one thing modern Canadian literature is full of, it’s memory. Years ago (a decade, mebbbe?) an industry journal […]
The ultimate in amnesiac pregnancy romances, Pregnesia! (Thanks, Tars Tarkas!)
A woman wakes up alone in a room, trains, finds a gun that opens portals from one place to another and escapes. But will there be cake? There is talk that the live-action Portal: No Escape short could lead to a feature-length film. But it’s perfect as it […]
Gameranx dares name the Top 25 Best Horror Games of All Time! (via Denis at The Horror?!)
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The Cultural Gutter 