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.
Review of Cool Air by H.P. Lovecraft
A pretty short story, but still, spoilers may exist as I plow forward.
The Colour Out of Space, Review
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.
Categories: Review/Criticism
Tags: H.P. Lovecraft, Horror, Review, The Colour Out of Space
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The Review of Charles Dexter Ward
“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:
Categories: Review/Criticism
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The Call of Cthulhu
“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.
At The Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft, A Review
“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.
H.P. Lovecraft’s The Alchemist
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)
Serial Experiments Lain
Serial Experiments Lain is a haunting story about a girl named Lain, living in modern-day Japan, who lives a largely computerless existence.
Categories: Review/Criticism
Tags: Anime, Cyberpunk, Science Fiction, Serial Experiments Lain
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Multiple Moon Systems in SF/F
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.
Categories: World Lore
Tags: Aemon-Tor, Astronomy, Constructed World, Fantasy, Moons, Science Fiction
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The Irresponsible Captain Tylor
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…
Categories: Review/Criticism
Tags: Anime, Irresponsible Captain Tylor, Parody, Science Fiction, Space Opera
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