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"There was the People's Republic of Treacle Mine Road (Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably-Priced Love! And a Hard-Boiled Egg!), which would live for all of a few hours, a strange candle that burned briefly and died like a firework."

And a glorious 25th of May to you all.

Or: why I am disinterested in BBC's Sherlock and dislike the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes movies. (Yeah my first real dreamwidth post will be complaining about two very popular things. Sorry about that.)

I have two works which have largely formed how I approach mystery fiction- the television series Homicide: Life on the Street and the Watch books ( Read more... )

Hollywood, I know you're making a boxing movie that just happens to have robots because you need a way to make a boxing movie "different," but.

I really think that someone should have noticed that there is another robot named Atom.

He's kind of THE MOST FAMOUS ROBOT IN THE WORLDNot. Cool ( Read more... )

Before he was given an assignment that involved hours of staring at the Berlin Wall while he grew angrier and angrier, with the eventual result of him tearing into the page with The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John le Carre wrote two mystery novels. Call for the Dead and A Murder of Quality star a familiar figure for le Carre fans- George ( Read more... )

How much of the future are you willing to risk for the sake of the present? If you're a government, the answer is "a lot." Build up a deficit today, and maybe you'll be in good enough shape tomorrow to pay it off. After all, there's a problem now, and the future is such a nebulous thing ( Read more... )

A while back I picked up Kristin Cashore's Fire, and about...a month ago now I finally read it. Fire is set in the same world as Graceling, but a different part of that world, and the stories exist independently enough that Fire can be read without having read Graceling.

Fire is about, well, Fire, a human monster in the land known as the Dells. ( Read more... )

So. X-Men First Class. Definite racefail. Definite sexism. (see this plurk for some details) ...definite large amounts of Magneto. Definite kudos for the set decorators ( Read more... )