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I was speaking to a group of undergraduates in the west recently. After my remarks, a young man raised his hand. “What is your hometown, please, and among all the

(1) UNFORSEEN INTERSECTION. Maya St. Clair draws a fascinating comparison between a current bestseller and Heinlein’s controversial classic in “Fourth Wing Review: Starship Troopers (for Girls!)” …Criticisms of Starship Troopers’ themes, while hyperbolic, were not entirely off-base. In Heinlein’s world, the ideal military life is violent, abusive, and deindividualizing; death is and should be omnipresent at every stage of training.

After all these decades of enjoying my relationship with Dr. Seuss as child, dad and librarian, it’s shocking to learn that I’ve been mispronouncing his name all these years.

(1) DANGEROUS COVER REVEALS. J. Michael Straczynski today posted in social media links to the Amazon pre-order pages showing the covers of of Dangerous Visions and Again, Dangerous Visions coming out from Blackstone Publishing next year. JMS added that, “What's not noted in this description is that this edition of Dangerous Visions the book has

THE WASHINGTON POST – One summer when I was 13 or 14, I began telling scary stories to the younger kids in my neighbourhood. I’d sit on our front porch steps after supper and in the growing twilight launch into some shivery classic such as The Hook. That’s the one about the teenage couple and […]