Tag Archive | speculative fiction
Genre as Argument: Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
Tweet of the Day: Speculative Fiction Tropes: Magictech ——- Once again, we come to the end of a blog post series. I’ve run out of genres/subgenres to write about. I know that I just scratched the surface, but writing posts like these requires a certain level intimacy with the subject at hand and I’m afraid […]
Genre as Argument: Cyberpunk
Tweet of the Day: Crossroads: World-building in Westerns and Speculative Fiction ——- Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose…. If there is a central argument in cyberpunk, this is it. On the surface cyberpunk is the perfect counter argument for the techno-utopia of classic science fiction. Instead of being centuries in the future it […]
TV Tropes Monday: Atlantis
Tweet of the Day: Walking the Ghosts ——- Want an ancient civilization with fantastic technology/magic/treasure that disappeared due to a world shaking catastrophe because of the hubris of Man. One word: Atlantis. You’re one stop shop for: ancient mysteries, all myths are true, human aliens, ancient astronauts, eldritch horrors and loopy philosophers looking for allegories […]
Genre as Argument: Sub-Genres
Tweet of the Day: Praise the Lord and pass the genre ammunition ——- There comes a time in any life when the student becomes the master. It happens in all kinds of disciplines including writing. So, it is no surprise that as genres mature, those that grew up reading them write their own reaction to […]
Genre as Argument
Tweet of the Day: I remember Space Quest. Do You? ——– Short post today. In upcoming weeks I’ll be exploring the idea of genre (and sub-genres) as argument. The idea is that each book presents an argument, for or against a given world view, even if the author is not making direct appeals to his […]
TV Tropes Monday: Earth-that-Was
Tweet of the Day: What do you do when you run out of plot in the middle of the story? ——- The End of the World as We Know It meets Wagon Train to the Stars. For some reason Earth went kaput, and people hitched their star buggies and went Space. Peeps might still have […]
Lessons from Aether: Half-Life
Tweet of the Day: 20 Video Games With Great Writing ——- Watch this. Don’t worry, I’ll wait: That is the introduction the first person shooter game, Half-Life. A game that took the then nascent FPS genre to the next level. It did not do it by breaking with the standard, “Mute protagonist fights weird monsters […]
Blinded by Love: Fans and Their Love Affairs
Tweet of the Day: Introducing…The Physical Attribute Thesaurus! ——– I saw this video yesterday and it made me a little sad. How so? I found myself crossing a line that one does best to steer clear off. I’m talking about the line from simple fan to obsessive “fanboy.” As long time readers of this blog […]
TV Tropes Monday: Cultural Rebel
Tweet of the Day: BETWEEN- A New Urban Fantasy…Coming Soon ——– Definition of OUTLIER 1 : a person whose residence and place of business are at a distance 2 : something (as a geological feature) that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body 3 : a statistical observation […]
Mass Effect 3: Die for the Cause
“Primarch Victus, fleet wide comm channel open,” said the Indefatigable‘s communication’s officer. “Thank you. This is Primarch Victus to all ships. Some have described the liberation of Palaven as a miracle. It was nothing of the sort. It is merely the inevitable result of our alliance with the Krogan. Once bitter enemies, together we threw […]
