Archive for February, 2010

Artwork and Wallpapers for WyvernET

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

Here’s some wonderful work done on my behalf (you can click on either for the bigger version).

Thanks to Lauren Hambacher for the original concept and artwork shown here.

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Review of Cool Air by H.P. Lovecraft

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

A pretty short story, but still, spoilers may exist as I plow forward.

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The Colour Out of Space, Review

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

I’m really not sure what to make of this story. Oh, right, spoiler alert, although there’s not that much to spoil.

Surgeon General’s Warning: Certain Colours can drive you MAD. Most colors, however, are safe. Except Agent Orange, which can cause cancer.

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The Review of Charles Dexter Ward

Friday, February 26th, 2010

“OGTHROD AI’F
GEB’L-EE’H
YOG-SOTHOTH
‘NGAH’NG AI’Y
ZHRO!”
-Mystical Psychobabble from the story.

Thanks for the word-salad, Lovecraft. In all seriousness, read that aloud, in a dark room, it’s wholly chilling.

This was a very long, but very rewarding read. Here’s your obligatory spoiler warning:

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The Call of Cthulhu

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
- H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu

The Call of Cthulhu, perhaps the most iconic and recognizable of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cosmic Horror stories, is also at once a let down and a wonder of literature.

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At The Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft, A Review

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

“Radiates, vegetables, monstrosities, star spawn – whatever they had been, they were men!” – H.P. Lovecraft, At The Mountains of Madness

Warning, possible spoilers ahead.  I do my best not to ruin the stories I review too much, but some discussion of plot is necessary.

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H.P. Lovecraft’s The Alchemist

Monday, February 15th, 2010

At the beginning of this month, I decided that as an aspiring author, it was my duty to read or reread all those books and short stories considered classics by my genre.  I avoided Literary Classics, since generally I find them dull or pretentious (Sorry Mr. Joyce!) .  Since I’m strapped for cash, I decided to start with things that I could find in intellectual commons.

Good day to you, Mr. Lovecraft!  I started today with The Alchemist. (Warning, plot spoilers ahead)

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Serial Experiments Lain

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Serial Experiments Lain is a haunting story about a girl named Lain, living in modern-day Japan, who lives a largely computerless existence.

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Multiple Moon Systems in SF/F

Monday, February 8th, 2010

My writing buddy read a recent story that I’m working on set in Aemon-Tor, my constructed world. I wrote that a character simultaneously saw a waxing gibbous and a waning crescent in the sky. He told me this was impossible.

Screeching halt.

Wait a second… is it? Now I’m inclined to believe his assertion, but it’d be just plain lazy to take his word for it! So I went and did research of my own. My thanks to Moon Connection for the chart below.

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The Irresponsible Captain Tylor

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

The Irresponsible Captain Tylor is a science fiction anime made in 1993, adapted from the novel The Most Irresponsible Man in Space, according to Wikipedia.

This series is awesome. It goes right near the top on my best anime of all time list, even though I’ve only watched it within the last month. The series follows protagonist Tylor, seen holding the fan above, about his misadventures in space…

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