I had just been to a first-run showing of the original Star Wars when I started keeping a notebook of my plans for outer space. The stories there came with star maps and spaceship diagrams. It was a galactic conquest, but of a benevolent sort. That was a long while ago, but still on the scale […]
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While the Black Lives Matter movement is finally receiving long-overdue mainstream focus, there are many separate social issues beneath that wide umbrella. One of the topics gaining attention right now in the quest for true equality is representation in literature. Hence, Black creators’ promotion of Black Voices Matter. A quick perusal of that hashtag on […]
If optimism stems from the belief that things can get better from the current moment, then surely the middle of 2020 gives us more scope for optimism than any time in our lifetimes so far, in multiple directions. Scope, of course, is not the same thing as grounds. Every week we combine the ongoing major […]
[A disclaimer before this article commences. The use of the word gypsy is a privilege of ethnicity, not of gadje, or non-Roma people. It is considered by many Roma a pejorative. While some gypsies are fine with it as common usage—the Romanichal of the UK are often fine with it, and many Spanish gypsies will […]
I first encountered one of my favorite werewolf stories in Metamorphoses of the Werewolf: A Literary Study from Antiquity Through the Renaissance by Leslie A. Sconduto. It’s the poem Bisclavert, written in the late 1100s by a woman known as Marie de France. It was the first story about the ‘noble werewolf’ archetype, rather than […]
This past winter, I was hired to write a tie-in novella for Vampire: The Masquerade. I decided to write about sheep. I invented a small farming and arts commune based here in Portland, Oregon, and I filled it with oblivious humans and romantic vampires. It was inspired in no small part by all the farming […]
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“Will I live to see my utopia?”—Adrian Veidt, Ozymandias When I first saw the trailer for HBO’s adaptation of Watchmen, I knew I wanted to see it. Guys in Rorschach masks. “Tick Tock, Tick Tock.” And best of all, Regina King as a brand new hero in a nun outfit. What was there not to […]
Seven Fridays ago, the authorities in Indonesia cancelled public religious gatherings, and a state of emergency was declared in my hometown of Jakarta. All due to COVID-19. The mosques, including Jakarta’s giant Masjid Istiqlal, which can house 200,000, are now empty in lieu of five prayers a day. The churches and temples have exhaled people, […]