Dana Fredsti is the only horror author I know who’s also a Deadite. Dana was a sword-wielding embodiment of evil in Army of Darkness and her talent for mayhem has clearly served her well with her latest novel. You’ve already seen her my review of Plague Nation and her guest post so to round off …
I’ve asked myself this question several times while working on my Ashley Parker series. Not so much in the first one, Plague Town, because I kept my destruction limited to a hundred mile radius quarantine zone surrounding the college town of Redwood Grove, which, while modeled after certain Northern California communities I’ve been to, …
Plague Nation Day: Guest Post: Why Is Destroying The World So Much Fun? by Dana Fredsti
The world is ending. The world is always ending but these days it’s getting faster. The deadly combination of a new strain of flu and the ‘cure’ for it are starting to tear at the outer edges of society. Redwood Grove, a small University town, was one of the first battlegrounds and where Ashley Parker …
Oblivion is a very odd film. Not so much in format as in what it represents, and the really unusual, lop sided way that it represents it. There’s some moments of real genius in here but they’re mixed with plot elements and choices that honestly look like they’ve stepped out of the 1950s and …
Let’s talk about Frittata. Specifically, let’s talk about what it all too quickly has turned into in my past, something my mother likes to call ‘egg rag’. Egg rag is sometimes not quite an omelet, sometimes not quite scrambled eggs and very, very occasionally, not quite pancakes. I have perpetrated egg rag on the world …
Yesterday, my essay on Rapture of the Nerds, by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross went live. It’s a fascinating, spiky, meaty book and well worth your time. Earlier this month, I interviewed the pair of them about the book, the Singularity and the future. Here’s what they said: How did the idea for the …
Interview: Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross for Rapture of the Nerds
The two great lies we tell ourselves about the future are that it will be here soon and it will be a clean break. The first is a lie because, the Jonathan Coulton song notwithstanding, the future is already here and has been here for a while. Five years ago, I interviewed one of the …
Clark Kent is one of my patron saints. The quarterback-sized reporter with the calm manner and the dogged refusal to back down from a story is an ideal I find very attractive, arguably far more than the whole blue suit/cape/superpowers thing. Clark’s a working journalist, a journeyman reporter. He’s Cary Grant in a good hat …
Music Past The Redline: Clark Kent and Lois Lane 75th Anniversary Special
So it turns out I’m good at chicken. I have chicken skills. There is great chicken power within me. I know chicken fu. That sensation you’re feeling is called the chickening. There’s a war going on out there old friend, and it’s not about who controls the information, it’s about who controls the chick- You …
Steampunk is producing some really interesting things at the moment. Not only do we have one of the legitimate creators of the genre, James P Blaylock, working again but there’s Cherie Priest, Guy Adams, the incomparable Professor Elemental of course and now, Resurrection Engines. An anthology of fifteen stories edited by Scott Harrison, it …
Firing Up The Resurrection Engines: A New Anthology And A New Approach To Steampunk