Just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean you’re not also an idiot
So far the revival of V has been fairly reliably dull and nonsensical, but this week’s episode brought the first throw-the-remote moment when Our Heroes discover that a key part of the alien invaders’...
View ArticleThe Russians love it! The Danes love it!
In an act of shameless self-promotion, I’ve posted my short story “The Coldest War” (which originally appeared in the February 2009 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction) online here. If you’re a Canadian...
View ArticleMy slightly late decade round-up post
Retrospectives, whether of a year, decade or century, are really predictions: what willl still be appreciated in ten years or longer? What will history forget, and what will it view kindly? With that...
View ArticleApparently my childhood is being made into a movie
So, having just heard that they’re making a movie of Eagle of the Ninth — which when I had to read it in Grade Six I though was the coolest book ever — I fully expect every other book I have ever had...
View ArticleWhat Lost can learn from Battlestar Galactica
As we await the airing of the first episode of Lost’s final season, our minds naturally drift back to other, similar experiences… other times we’ve seen the final seasons and episodes of complex,...
View ArticleHot snow
Well, it was inevitable: US politicians are using the recent blizzard in Washington DC as proof that global warming doesn’t exist. I’m going to pass over this for now, save to mention in passing the...
View ArticleWe ask the tough questions
Some some of you may have heard that story about the venerable Canadian history magazine The Beaver changing its name because of the confusion it caused over exactly what kind of magazine it was, and...
View ArticleThe obligatory death-of-comics post
I had an interesting experience this weekend at a yard sale on my street. While digging through a bin full of kids’ clothes in hopes of finding some for my two-year-old son, I had a Spider-Man t-shirt...
View ArticleMy Inception No-Prize
(Spoilers follow, I guess) I finally got a chance to see Inception a couple of days ago and while I enjoyed it, there were a few things that puzzled me. Not that the movie was confusing — honestly, one...
View ArticleThe Mutant Registration Act reconsidered
Two things happened to me recently that dovetailed in an odd way: first, I broke my arm in a bicycle accident; second, I picked up volumes 1-6 of Marvel’s Essential X-Men books for a very reasonable...
View ArticleCrisis on Earth-Farley
Last Sunday’s episode of For Better or For Worse presents an interesting paradox: the punchline involved John, the husband,writing on a dollar bill, but Canada (where the strip is set) did away with...
View ArticleThe Unquestioned Assumptions of Science Fiction
I love (and write) science fiction, but there are a bunch of things that show up a lot in SF movies, novels that have become such a part of the furniture of the genre that nobody bothers to ask whether...
View ArticleWhy I Should Not Write Doctor Who
Somewhere in the Doctor Who production offices, deep within the BBC Wales complex (if there is such a place — go with me here) there is surely a list of “Stories Not to Pitch Us.” Nearly all serials...
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This weekend, remember…
THE EASTER BUNNY DIED FOR YOUR SINS (Illustration by Bagram Ibatouilline, from The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate Camillo.)
View ArticlePutting the TARDIS before the horse
So over on io9 they’ve posted an article about the central problem with Stephen Moffatt’s Doctor Who, and while I agree with some of their points, I think that the central problem with it — with almost...
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