The Inklings – Humphrey Carpenter
The Inklings C.S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and their friends In the absorbing book at hand the author and academic C. S. Lewis is credited as being the main catalyst behind a loose literary Oxford group of writers and teachers in the ’30s and ’40s — the Inklings – whose roughly defined membership included J. R. R. Tolkien; and it seems odd to me now that although I’ve had a lifelong...
J.G. Ballard : The Complete Short Stories
The Pacifics of Our Imaginations: J.G. Ballard The Complete Short Stories “In the codes of Renata’s body, in the junctions of nipple and finger, in the sulcus of her buttocks, waited the possibilities of a benevolent psychopathology.” (Zodiac 2000) “Its ruined appearance [was] profoundly depressing, an Auschwitz of the soul whose mausoleums contained the mass graves of the still undead.” (The Terminal Beach) “Already...
A Feast for Crows: Book Four of A Song of Ice and Fire
A Feast for Crows Book Four of A Song of Ice and Fire Those early episodes of HBO’s Game of Thrones…they seem so long ago, don’t they? Why, back then Ned Stark’s head was still firmly attached to his shoulders and Daenerys’s dragons were cute and playful little tykes. Now, with the penultimate series well under way, Ned’s head is but a distant memory and the dragons are all grown up and ready to burn… So I thought it might...
Nemo: Heart of Ice
Nemo: Heart of Ice “Sailed from Lincoln [Island] with the morning tide, and a heavy heart. I am discouraged by the fact that my young wife has lately given birth not to a son and heir, as I had been convinced the gods would surely grant me, but a daughter that she has named Janni, for her mother. Though she often brings the child to me and tries to make me love her, I cannot, so great has been my disappointment. Thus I...
Providence Act 2
Providence Act 2 “There’s no gettin’ out. Where I’m from, everything’s like me.” — Brown Jenkin Seamus, down at Galway’s excellent Sub-City Comics doesn’t overly care for Alan Moore. And the main reason appears to be Moore’s many depictions of rape in his work. The writer has explained his reasons for that, but Seamus isn’t buying it. So when I was finished reading Providence Act 1 I was happy to let him know...
Providence Act 1
Providence Act 1 This piece is currently in The Lovecraft eZine This is an overview and as such contains minor spoilers “Today began with one of those blue skies that seems so perfect it can only go on to betray you horribly.” – Robert Black’s Commonplace Book It’s many a long year since I bought an individual comic-book. In fact it may be decades, more like. There’s a fair chance that any interesting long run these...
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