Revisiting Robert E. Howard’s Conan: ‘A Witch Shall Be Born’
A Witch Shall Be Born was first published in Weird Tales magazine in December of 1934, coming one month after the final installment of People of the Black Circle. It…
Tag: John C Wright
Is Firefly REALLY Great Space Western, or Just Greatly Overrated?
We were discussing Joss Whedon’s late and lamented outer space horse opera FIREFLY. A reader named Sophia’s Favorite holds forth sharp criticism for the…
The Death of Doctor Who: I Will Not Hate It Forever
So the Doctor turns out to be, not an eccentric Time Lord who stole a broken TARDIS to flee into time and space for madcap…
Chat: John C. Wright’s “Critical Autopsy of a Galaxy Far, Far Away”
John C. Wright is an award-winning author of science-fiction novels and short stories whose work has appeared in numerous magazines, journals, and anthologies. He is…
Watching Today’s DC Animation is a Game of PC Bingo
I am, or, rather, was, a booster and supporter of the DC animated universe as seen on television and direct to video movies, and whenever I saw…
Revisiting Conan: The People of the Black Circle
The People of the Black Circle was published first published in Weird Tales magazine in three parts over the September, October and November 1934 issues. It is the twelfth…
Vigilante Justice: Superheroes Are Cowboys
Our own Sophia’s Favorite observes: “Don’t apply earth-logic to comic books. In reality the Avengers are a costumed lynch-mob half of whose members are walking…
Time Travel is ALWAYS Annoying
In science fiction stories, there are a limited number of ways to explain the conundrum of how time travel might work if it could work…
My Time Travel Theories About Avengers Endgame
Spoilers for the movie ENDGAME below the cut. Go see the flick first. Several fans have voiced complaints about the plot holes caused by Avengers…
‘RED NAILS’, or Why is Conan a Barbarian?
This is a somewhat overdue review, only seventy-eight years after the fact. ‘Red Nails’ is a novella first serialized in 1936 in the July…