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So it goes.
Cool Things are Extremely Cool:
- Netflix Revives Western Longmire. Woohoo! I am one happy fangirl.
- The University of Iowa is digitizing 10,000 vintage sci-fi zines dating back to the 1930s. Fantastic!
- Three Calls for Papers of potential interest: 1) on Robert A. Heinlein, 2) on the Gothic and Racism, and 3) on "It's Happening Again": Twenty ( Read more... ) -
Cool things, ahoy!
Things that are cool:
* Scholar Michael Drout has written a most enlightening blog post clarifying his work with Tolkien's Beowulf papers, etc.: "Tolkien's Beowulf: The Real Story."
* From US Weekly: "J.K. Rowling to Pen Fantastic Beasts Trilogy as Harry Potter Spin-Off."
* From The Guardian: "Black death was not spread by rat fleas, say ( Read more... ) -
It's Good To Be A Geek
Happy Tuesday, everyone!
There are two new nonfiction e-books out of possible interest to Sherlockians, both by professional pastiche authors: scientist Stephanie Osborn's exploration of the rationale behind Holmes's cocaine habit, Sherlock, Sheilas, and the Seven-Percent Solution, and Barbara Roden's collection of Holmesian essays on various ( Read more... ) -
"a golden thread"
Happy birthday to clara_swift and goodnightlady. May you both enjoy an excellent day and a wonderful year to come!
* I stumbled across some older posts that I found to be thought-provoking regarding young adult dystopian fiction. At Tor.com, Jo Walton argued in "The Dystopic Earths of Heinlein's Juveniles" that, taken as a whole, Robert A. Heinlein's juveniles paint a ( Read more... ) -
"The mornings blossom into noons"
Happy birthday to super_chik! I hope you have a great day and many more to come.
In other news...
* The promised remake of The Prisoner isn't happening. I think I am relieved.
* SilkSoundBooks has added some new, unabridged readings of classic novels (including Susannah York's reading of Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow).
* Locus has posted Heinlein ( Read more... ) -
"what the world actually did"
* I highly recommend this fantastic podcast: The Classic Tales Podcast. These are unabridged, classic short stories by the likes of Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Hardy, and H.G. Wells, read by professional actor B.J. Harrison. (Thanks to sword_gryff.)
* For those who love The Dark is Rising books by Susan Cooper and are looking ( Read more... )
