I review books for SCI FI Magazine. Wearing my book reviewer hat, I explain to everybody who wants to send me their books that I can only read, let alone review, only a fraction of the books that are sent to me, and that some other factors control what I review…but that is not saying […]
I have an idea for a novel. Let’s give it a Ludlumesque name: “The Smith Violation.” I have had this idea for years. It is one of a bunch of novel ideas I have that I have, at most, toyed with; this one I’ve written a few thousand words of, nothing more. Rape is a […]
Okay, so it now seems that we have to address the issue of preconception in critical appraisal. The impetus is Jonathan Jones, a critic for the UK Guardian who wrote a much-derided essay to the effect that he had never read Terry Pratchett but was certain that he was nothing much. Later, in response to […]