Well, that happened. And we should make no mistake what it means, and what it doesn’t mean. It doesn’t mean that the Hugos no longer have any room for just-plain-meat-and-potatoes fun science fiction and fantasy. That kind of material has won plenty of Hugos and will win Hugos again. It doesn’t mean the Hugos no […]
On the subject of Lovecraft, to which we keep returning: My own take is that he was supremely talented at describing dread and disgust and horrifically deficient in describing anything else; his admitted and proud disinterest in people as subjects of fiction shows in his work and renders the whole remote and soulless. His racism, […]
Last night’s appallingly inert big-budget thriller on Netflix Disk: BLACKHAT (2015), directed by Michael Mann, starring Chris Hemsworth. Computer hacker is furloughed from prison to help international force track down terrorist cyber-gang. Despite slick visuals, locations and multiple continents, and a couple of spectacular set-pieces that include one epic gun battle, the movie barely exists, […]