Posts tagged Science Fiction Repair Shop in 2022
Labels, Labels, Labels
I don't particularly care if my SF is hard, soft, or mushy; I care whether or not I give a darn about who's in it and what happens.
Fantfacy [sic]
On the presence of inarticulate, inexpressive prose -- "Engfish" -- in SF&F.
The Fine Art Of The Center-Eligible Play And Other Cheats
On cheating in a work of fantasy or SF.
Wave A Wand And We Got The Bomb
Most fantasy stories never confront the idea that magic would have the social impact of the atomic bomb.
Looking Onto Other Pages
"When everyone in the community reads the same books, you can an inward-looking, intellectually impoverished community that can only contemplate its own navel."
Here, Now, Nowhere
On using Zen Buddhist notions of time in writing SF&F.
Knots Within Knots
The job of a storyteller should not be to make things complex, but to find common threads in complex things. Doubly so in SF&F.
Arrival
An actual SF movie, not just a tarted-up shoot-'em-up, both because of the breadth of its ideas and how they are lovingly personalized.
