Highlander:
The Dying Gaul
Methos, so sharp and pricky and vivid in this single Highlander story. I love the free way it mixes art, and history, and Immortality.

His Dark Materials:
All of the His Dark Materials stories were really good this year.

AcadaemiaThis fandom is a challenging one, with its free mix of theology, fantasy, and steampunk ( Read more... )

So that I can close tabs and also mark which ones to leave feedback on, as the comment tab hasn't been working at all for me.

Pern

This year brought a bumper crop of Pern fics, interestingly a lot of femmeslash between Mirrim and Menolly. And Stinging As a Well-Aimed Dart is one of those, from Mirrim's perspective. There's a lovely bit on Pernese ( Read more... )

Philip Pullman, a 12 minute lecture on modernism and narrative as seen through A Bar at the Folies-BergèreReally fascinating. I'm glad to say that I can now put Pullman in a special category of 'interesting famous people'. If I ever met him at a cocktail party, we would have to discuss Manet. Just like I'd have to spend my time talking about The ( Read more... )

Long after you've read your favorite book and watched your favorite series, you can mug your friends into watching it with you to experience it all fresh again from their perspective.

Which is to say: I got fashionbeast to read the Golden Compass, and I was so very very good about not spoiling it for him, for months. And I just got his email with like a ( Read more... )

I'm reading two short story collections called 'Tales Before Narnia' and 'Tales Before Tolkien', mainly because the Hugo Shorts project is stalled until I have more time to track all the collected books down ( Read more... )