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Thursday, July 23, 2015
Games That Don't Suck: Splendor
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( For a list of games in this series, click here and scroll down .) The latest entry in our series of “Games That Do Not Resemble Monopol...
Monday, June 8, 2015
Sorry, Ladies, C.S. Lewis Finds You Tedious and Icky
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The Narnia novels, which C.S. Lewis wrote as children's stories, generally avoid sexual themes. An episode in the final book that Lew...
Sunday, May 24, 2015
Luke of Winchester, We Wish We'd Never Known You
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(For the previous post on this trilogy, click here .) A well-wrought adventure trilogy follows a standard format: introduce the protagoni...
Sunday, May 10, 2015
A Future of Blood, Fire, and Monsters
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John Christopher, whose work I’ve blogged about here before , achieved his fame as a writer of dystopian fiction for young adults, several ...
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
One Step Forward, Twenty Steps Back: The 2015 Hugo Ballot
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A couple of years ago I relayed several reports that the World Science Fiction convention , where one might expect to find a degree of forw...
Friday, March 13, 2015
C.S. Lewis Redux: On Your Knees and Forget the Fees
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In her ongoing takedown of C.S. Lewis's The Silver Chair , Ana Mardoll noted a peculiar declaration made by Lewis's co-protago...
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Good News from Narnia
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I am pleased to report, belatedly, that Ana Mardoll has resumed her extended critique of C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia with ...
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