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  • Hot news! Superman + Wonderwoman

    Entertainment Weekly breathlessly reports that in Justice League #12, Superman and Wonderwoman will . . . fall in love? have a little fling? Comix fans, you’ll have to wait to find out what, exactly. http://www.dccomics.com/comics/justice-league-2011/justice-league-12 In the meantime, EW’s Popwatch site has… Continue reading

  • Isis: Make a Goddess

    You can make your own goddess. Why would you want to do that? Entertain a child. . . entertain yourself. . . create an art project. . . possess your own tiny outer manifestation of your own grand inner goddess. . .… Continue reading

  • ‘Ban, ‘Ban, Cacaliban

    William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II. scene 2: The monstrous creature Caliban, drunkenly rejoicing that he is now free from Prospero’s domination: ‘Ban, ‘Ban, Cacaliban Has a new master: get a new man. Freedom, hey-day! hey-day, freedom! freedom, hey-day, freedom!… Continue reading

  • How Game of Thrones Addicts Can Get Their Fix

    You can go to your local bookstore and buy the books, of course. You know, those things that used to be trees? You can also order them through Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com, and the HBO store, among other online sources. But do… Continue reading

  • Game of Thrones fans: Only 225 days to go!

    According to the blog HBOWatch.com, that’s how long we diehard fans have to wait until we get our next fix, Season 3. Set your digital countdown clocks now, and in the meantime, learn all about it here: http://hbowatch.com/hbo-series-premiere-schedule/ Can’t wait that… Continue reading

  • Surely the zombie apocalypse is at hand!

    Is a vast undead army amassing somewhere in Denmark? Researchers have discovered a bogful of bog-men, hundreds of them. A skeleton army buried in Alken Enge, a Danish bog that was once an ancient lake bed, MAY BE POISED TO… Continue reading

  • Hello, fantasy lovers!

    I started this blog because I am fascinated by fictions of all sorts. I’m especially fascinated by speculative literary fiction, a broad category that might include science fiction, fantasy, utopian/dystopian tales, and similar written-down stuff. But really, to restrict fiction to… Continue reading

  • What fantasy books have moved you? Which ones have you loved?

    UPDATE: It’s now 2025. I started this blog in 2012, and from my perspective NOW, the list I posted THEN seems impossibly naive. I’d still put some of these books on my Top Ten list, but here it is, over a… Continue reading