Space Magic

SFX has Terry Pratchett commenting on Doctor Who. Pratchett says he wishes he could hate the show, because it’s not science fiction and it discards Chekhov’s rifle. Unsurprising, really: the Doctor doesn’t much like guns. Pratchett elevates said rifle to a Law of Narrative, which I’m not sure it really is. For all his objection Read More …

Vampires are not ruined. Deal with it.

For my entire adult life… hell, my entire adolescence and most of my pre-teen years… I’ve been hearing that someone’s gone and ruined vampires. Seriously, this has been going on since I knew what a vampire was. First, it was Anne Rice. Then Mark Rein-Hagen and his pretentious crowd of White Wolfers. Joss Whedon came Read More …