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Author Archives: William the Bloody
5 YA Sci-Fi & Fantasy Series Adults Need to Read
Some very appealing suggestions here for Young Adult SF and fantasy. I’m not sure how they overlap with paranormal romance but I’ll be investigating these.
Zelazny’s Chronicles of Amber televised
I have to confess I’m not usually a fan of high/epic fantasy, but I make an exception for Roger Zelazny’s Chronicles of Amber series, where the quasi-medieval world of Amber overlaps with our own and a host of shady worlds … Continue reading
Fairy tale and the bizarre
A very stimulating essay here by Tobias Carroll, ‘Why we love weird fairy tales’, tracing the career of the unsettling imagery found in the original fairy tale–here, particularly Giambattista Basile’s seventeenth-century collection The Tale of Tales. Carroll then shows the … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptation, Angela Carter, fairy tale, Giambattista Basile
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Maggie Stiefvater live on line
The fabulous YA author Maggie Stiefvater is taking part in the SLJ Teen on-line conference alongside the author Meg Medina from 10.00 am – 5.00 pm EDT today–that’s 5 hours behind GMT, so it will begin at 4.00 pm in … Continue reading
Buffy singalong!
Devotees of Buffy the Vampire Slayer will be aware of the many experiments with genre that the series carried out, most notably the musical episode ‘Once more with feeling’ (season 6, episode 7). The episode explores ideas of communication and … Continue reading
SF and Romance
The worlds of science fiction and romance may seem antithetical but, as in the encounter of Gothic with romance that generates paranormal romance, the romance genre insinuates its way into the, perhaps, masculine, rationalist world of SF. Here, Gail Carriger, … Continue reading
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Tagged Fantasy, Genre, Paranormal romance, Romance, romantic fiction, SF
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Soviet Communism and Technological Utopia
The Soviet version of communism was infused with optimism about technology as much as about social transformation. Soviet science fiction expresses this utopianism, and there’s some great artwork here; there’s an imaginative power to these images that goes beyond the … Continue reading
Film noir and the Gothic
In a fascinating article, ‘Gothic Cinema in the ‘40s: Doomed Romance and Murderous Melodrama‘, Samm Deighan explores the overlaps between horror, film noir, and women’s films of the 1940s, and finding the Gothic mode there. Deighan discusses well-known classics such … Continue reading
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Tagged Film, film noir, Genre, Gothic, Gothic film, Horror Film, melodrama, women
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Buffy and Feminism
A good article here, ‘Buffy Summers: Third-Wave Feminist Icon’, on the feminist stance of the final season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Nineteenth-Century Women and Speculative Fiction
This is a fascinating and scholarly essay, ‘Cavendish’s Daughters: Speculative Fiction and Women’s History‘ by Jonathan Kearnes which traces fantastic fictions by women from Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing New World in the seventeenth century, through Frankenstein, then focusing on some little-known … Continue reading
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Tagged horror, Nineteenth century, SF, speculative fiction, weird fiction, women's writing
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