The Ramshackle Vampire
Where We Let Our Geek Flag Fly.
Monday, November 12, 2018
Comfortable Dystopians and Their Comfortable Friends: An Update
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A small follow-up to my January 2018 entry on Margaret Atwood : Steven Galloway, the author and (ex-) professor whom Atwood defended in th...
Sunday, September 30, 2018
Geek TV
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When the HBO series Game of Thrones premiered in 2011, no-one predicted (AFAIK) its immense and enduring popularity. I figured the show w...
Friday, August 31, 2018
Battlezone's Virtual Reality
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Asked to explain his inspiration for "cyberspace," the virtual-reality datasphere in which the characters of his early fiction spe...
Monday, July 30, 2018
Watch It All Decay
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I remember the 1970s as an odd, dispiriting time. (Better to have grown up during that decade in America, rather than in contemporary Cambod...
Saturday, June 30, 2018
The Future Is Not What You Think: H.M. Hoover
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I am pleased to report the republication (in e-book format) of the young adult sci-fi novels of Helen M. Hoover. Nearly all of her books ha...
Sunday, May 13, 2018
Games That Don't Suck: Clank!
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While the archetypal fantasy plot is probably the quest, the archetypal fantasy gaming plot is almost certainly the dungeon crawl, a searc...
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