Showing posts with label criticism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label criticism. Show all posts
Monday, August 21, 2017

Brian Aldiss, RIP

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Unfortunately, Brian Aldiss's family have this morning confirmed his death, on Friday, his 92nd birthday. Brian Aldiss‏ @brian...
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Friday, May 12, 2017

FFB: TURNING POINTS edited by Damon Knight (Harper & Row 1977); DREAM MAKERS: VOLUME II interviews conducted by Charles Platt (Berkley 1985)

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Two books about sf and fantasy and what's around them, Damon Knight's pioneering gathering of essays from various sources, about ...
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Tuesday, September 6, 2016

"The Labor Day Group" by Thomas Disch (and a rejoinder by George R. R. Martin)...An oddly timely 1980/81 codicil to the Humanist/Cyberpunk consideration from last Friday and the recent WorldCon fracas

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One of the less well-rendered F&SF covers so far On this day after Labor Day, around which had been the traditional annual weekend...
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Friday, October 3, 2014

FFB: SF in the World, and the World is Changed: BENCHMARKS CONTINUED by Algis Budrys; THE DREAMS OUR STUFF IS MADE OF by Thomas M. Disch

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I watched the new documentary on The New York Review of Books the other night, as it debuted on HBO (and, later, when I should've be...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014

Ovation cable channel's web series: TOUCHING THE ART - Episode 2 - "Postmodernism, Post-Net & the Art Market"...and, for the hell of it, LIFE IN THE ARTS episode "Suminagashi Japanese Paper Marbling"

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Panelist Carol Cheh was a highschool-mate of mine. And, from 1999, another highschool-mate, Rebecca Ramos , leads off this episode with...
Friday, July 18, 2014

FFM: P.S. #1, April 1966: contributions from Avram Davidson, Alfred Bester, Nat Hentoff, Gahan Wilson, Jean Shepherd, Ron Goulart, Charles Beaumont, Russell Baker, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, et al.; Edward Ferman, editor; Gahan Wilson, associate editor; Ron Salzberg, assistant editor

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This is a magazine I've been looking for copies of (in a casual way) for about 35 years, maybe a little more. I've written about i...
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Friday, June 14, 2013

FFB: THE MEN IN MY LIFE by Vivian Gornick; BENCHMARKS CONTINUED by Algis Budrys...books about books and writers...

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I first became aware of Vivian Gornick through her collection of essays, including quite a number of book-review items, Essays in Feminism ,...
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Friday, April 15, 2011

FFBs: HRF Keating: CRIME & MYSTERY: THE 100 BEST BOOKS; Lupoff & Thompson, eds.: ALL IN COLOR FOR A DIME; Peter Nicholls, ed. SCIENCE FICTION AT LARGE

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H.R.F. Keating passed on 27 March, and we lost another gentleman, by all accounts, in the CF field, one who had been a fine fiction-write...
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Friday, January 14, 2011

FFB: Joe Gores: SPEAK OF THE DEVIL (Five Star, 1999); John Simon: MOVIES INTO FILM (Dial Press, 1971); JOHN SIMON ON FILM: 1982-2001 (Applause, 2005)

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Joseph Gores, 1931-2011. From the Contento index : Speak of the Devil: 14 Tales of Crimes and Their Punishments Joe Gores (Five Star 0-7862...
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