Heroes vs. Villains
It might be Round 7, but it’s not too late to particpate in Cinematical’s Heroes vs. Villains tournament. Vote here.
Agatha H and the Airship City
Agatha H and the Airship City looks like pretty promising steampunkery, “push[ing] the boundaries of Steampunk past the polite boundaries of pseudo-Victoriana and into full-on techno-madness!”
The World’s First Fantasy Magazine
The always excellent illustration and book arts blog, A Journey Around My Skull, has scans of illustrations from Der Orchideengarten. Started in 1919, it’s the first fantasy magazine. (More about the magazine, here).
The Female Character Flowchart
Overthinking It presents: The Female Character Flowchart. It is intricate, exhaustive and thought-provoking. (via SFSignal)
13 Assassins Reign!
It’s assassins galore with John Woo and Su Chao-Pin’s Reign of Assassins and Takashi Miike’s remake of the classic chanbara, Thirteen Assassins.
By Any Other Name
Despite being the largest piece of the trade publishing pie, there’s a lot of good stuff to read out there that isn’t Romance. And I try to get through as much of it as possible*. Funnily enough, though, much of the other fiction I read tends to have […]
The Cultural Gutter 