I've been editing the StarShipSofa podcast for three months and it has proved to be the education in storytelling I had hoped it would...

Some of the terminology will be opaque to non-experts but this is a great explanation of...well, just listen:

I've been appointed editor of the StarShipSofa podcast. My old friend Tony C. Smith couldn't say no when I volunteered. We have a long...

I watched Kingdom of Heaven, a three-hour epic film of the old school. It takes place in the Crusades, featuring hair-raising battle...

"...a lonely outpost to Literature."

Anglish: what the English would be speaking today if the Norman Conquest had never happened.

I was moved profoundly by the Chernobyl miniseries, and I thought this music provided the perfect finale. Vichnaya Pamyat (Eternal...

Once the fledgling United States had acquired the Northwest Territories, Thomas Jefferson's topographical mind had to carve it up...

Genres: I’m drawn to the weird ones. Science fiction, horror, fantasy, and that weird stuff they call weird. But the common element in...