Praxis

Praxis

There's been a great deal of discussion lately among serious, intelligent people about how to save science fiction. It's an open secret that SF once dominated in print as it now does in film, on television, and in video games. But the concerted efforts of malicious gatekeepers have relegated the…
September 29, 20176 Comments
Larry Correia vs. the Campbellian Memory Hole

Larry Correia vs. the Campbellian Memory Hole

The International Lord of Hate recently waded into a FaceBook thread started by author Mark Wandrey that had been darkened by a Campbellian Kool-Aid swiller who showed up to lecture the best-selling authors' fans about how hard science fiction is the only science fiction. Glenn: "Lowbrow readers want to be told…
September 28, 201725 Comments
Losing the Plot

Losing the Plot

JD Cowan addresses how the corporatists in charge of every major entertainment medium have enthusiastically lost touch with the comic book reading, video game playing, and TV watching public. My thesis is simple; we've lost the plot. Not only have we lost the plot, we're proud of having done so.…
September 14, 201711 Comments
Sword and Sorcery

Sword and Sorcery

Today I had the pleasure of chatting with author Howie K. Bentley about sword and sorcery and sword and planet fiction, including his pulpy masterpiece Under a Dim Blue Sun. We also discussed the state of men's SFF and gave some practical writing tips. Hear all this and more on…
August 23, 2017
Death of the Short Story

Death of the Short Story

Short stories built science fiction into a cultural force to be reckoned with and launched the careers of countless stellar authors. Yet the short fiction market has seen a steep decline in the past few decades. Is the short story dead? Your humble Geek Gab hosts recently spoke with Castalia…
August 16, 2017
A World without Politics

A World without Politics

File the latest analog mindset Tourette's spasm from Scalzi & friends under  SF SJWs Always Double Down. H/t @Azu-Rayn “Dear whomever: Kiss my ass,” author John Scalzi tells a room full of fans. The crowd laughs and applauds. Scalzi, who is a Hugo award-winning science fiction author of novels like Old…
July 4, 201719 Comments

Extravagant Fiction

Over at the Castalia House blog, Kevyn Winkless makes a strong case that genres should be thought of as tags; not boxes. None of the common terms for genre are particularly common until science fiction starts to take off in the early 1940s – it sees healthy growth right up until…
March 31, 2017
Lyonesse

Lyonesse

Author, editor, publisher, and all-around Renaissance man Russell Newquist proudly announces the launch of Lyonesse. What is Lyonesse, you ask? Ever since elitist New York editors destroyed the sci-fi short story market by foisting their lit-fic tastes on readers, enterprising publishers have sought a way to revive the once-dominant short…
March 21, 201710 Comments
Paging Dr. Warpig

Paging Dr. Warpig

Daddy Warpig continues his critical tour de force over at the Castalia House blog. This time he returns to warn us that print science fiction has one foot in the grave and another foot on a banana peel. There’s a sickness in SF, it’s very nearly terminal, and Doctor Warpig…
March 10, 20176 Comments
Socialists Ruin Everything

Socialists Ruin Everything

Jasyn Jones regales us with a story from SFF history of an original paradise invaded by pinkos, pedos, and Men with Screwdrivers. There was once an age, a Golden Age, an age of wonder and delight, of adventure and heroics, of creativity and imagination unbound… an age undreamt of by…
February 22, 201711 Comments