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Last week: the plot of A Mirror for Observers. This week: the point of A Mirror for Observers. Every week: some weird thing you've never heard of. Relevance? How do the musings of a 1950s-produced alien bear upon the world of 2026? AMfO has its highs and
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I Needed This Edgar Pangborn: you would think more people might remember him on account of having such a weird name, but he is a now-little-known mid-century science fiction author. To the degree that anyone knows him, he is known for the pastoral themes of his writing,
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Last week we pondered why I'd rate a book which took me an entire year to finish over a new awards-darling I finished easily in two weeks. As it turns out, sometimes what makes reading easy is when the content is simply not that deep despite the
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Reading A Drop of Corruption and Memory together Last year, during my ill-fated and soul-crushing encounter with the 2025 Hugo nominees, I accused Robert Jackson Bennett of writing a book redolent with fasco-libertarian dogwhistles: The Tainted Cup. Not an unentertaining book full of fasco-libertarian dogwhistles, so
Fantasy
The Other Guys Bioware no longer possesses a monopoly on CRPG romance. In recent years, many studios have left their mark upon the pantheon of video game beefcakes. Outside the Bioware frame, designers have found the opportunity to get a bit weirder with the beef, sprinkle a little variety onto
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The Bioware Edition I am once again hitting the listicle well, and this time we clamber over an even lower bar. Have you ever wondered why the hot guys of video games, especially the ones that are narratively sexually available to the player, make so many straight male gamers piss
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A 1950s Collection Which Rips We’ll start with the cover: A beautiful blonde woman staring wistfully past a green scaly alien who has a big green conehead. Behind them looms a rocket ship and a purple glowing planetoid. I believe this image to be derived from one of the
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Post-America, Written Too Soon I accidentally read two books about the collapse or rising irrelevance of America while I was on vacation last month. This is why I can’t do leisure time: I box myself into the grindset by accident. The funnier coincidence about these two books is
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Based on How Many Times I Said “Oh Fuck Off” While Watching We return to our article in progress. We already talked about the movie-within-a-movie episode, the baseball alien episode, the Bermuda Triangle episode, the giving-the-aliens-the-flag episode, even the Brady Bunch episode. How
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Based on How Many Times I Said “Oh Fuck Off” While Watching There are so many episodes of The X-Files. There are so many episodes of The X-Files and so many of them are bad. Yet I love this show. I love this show and it keeps me
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Q-in-Law by Peter David Man contains multitudes. Once, I reviewed War and Peace for this blog. Now I will review Q-in-Law, a Star Trek: The Next Generation tie-in novel wherein the omnipotent space asshole Q and Deanna Troi’s overbearing mother Lwaxana both attend an
Farscape
Farscape 2x05 & 2x06 The Way We Weren’t What do you call a grey version of sepia? Greepia? Okay, greepia it is. We open to a greepia view of Peacekeeper marines, led by a hot guy scientist, marching down the halls of Moya to Pilot’s lair. But it’