I finally saw National Theatre Live's broadcast of Coriolanus. Fantastic! Incredible staging, terrific performances by everyone (Tom Hiddleston and Mark Gatiss included), and Deborah Findlay absolutely made the show. I just recently used Coriolanus in teaching The Hunger Games (there's good reason why President Snow's first name is Coriolanus!), ( Read more... )

* I'm delighted to say it's official: I'll be giving an hour-long academic presentation on "Sherlock Holmes and Science Fiction" at Loncon 3: The 72nd World Science Fiction Convention in London this summer. (It's the perfect year for returning to London, as it's the 160th birthday of Mr. Holmes!) It looks like I'll be on some terrific panels, as ( Read more... )

Happy 160th birthday to the Great Detective himself, Sherlock Holmes. May you party like it's 1895!


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May you and yours enjoy the blessings of the season. Thank you for the gift of your friendship, my friends!


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Fresh from Wildside Press, the new Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #10 includes my essay "Sherlock Holmes and Science Fiction."


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Fun stuff:
1. "What to Expect When You're Expecting Cthulhu."
2. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Lego Trailer.
3. The Honest Trailer: Star Trek into Darkness.

And a quick reminder: "Sherlock, Science, and Ratiocination" begins next Tuesday! There's still time to sign up to audit or take the course online.

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It's here! Registration is open for my international and interactive online course "Sherlock, Science, and Ratiocination," offered with the Mythgard Institute at Signum University for Fall 2013. Students may take the 12-week course for master's credit, and auditors may take it for the love of the subject. The course includes two 90-minute ( Read more... )

I have lots of links and news to share today!

* I've chosen my text assignments for the Fall 2013 semester. For my online graduate course "Sherlock, Science, and Ratiocination" for the Mythgard Institute, here is the list.
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I have lots of links to share today!

First and foremost, various ways you can donate/help the efforts in Oklahoma are listed here.


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In my current trip back through Arthur Conan Doyle's works featuring Sherlock Holmes, I've been thinking of the character trajectories across the stories, especially regarding Holmes's relationship to Lestrade (less celebrated that the brilliant Holmes-Watson partnership, but nonetheless fascinating ( Read more... )