But the piece of Dozois fiction I want to mention before his editorial work is near and dear to me — his “Counterfactual”. It is an alternate history story of the metafictional kind, as someone who is in an alternate history (where the Civil War went very differently) and is trying t...
me as “theseother people, whowe do not count as human, areevil and should be killed.” And putting this in historical context – towards the end of Japan’s forced modernization, in a time of resurgent militarism towards its near neighbors – gives me an uneasy feeling, as if one of ...
Born March 29, 1923—Geoffrey Ashe. British historian and lecturer, Arthurian expert. His first book,King Arthur’s Avalon: The Story of Glastonbury, was published sixty years ago. He wrote one novel,The Finger and the Moon, set at Allhallows, a college near Glastonbury Tor. Anyone here wh...
Since then I’ve befriended people in comics, other LGBT fans of the X-Men, and have had all sorts of long philosophical and meaningful conversations about these comics. I’ve waited on long lines to get signatures at cons from people likeChris Claremont,LouiseandWalter Simonson, Mike andLaur...
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The BECCON ’87 programme book front cover. This was back in the days (prior to the 2010s) when Eastercons had a souvenir programme book in addition to the schedule timetable booklet. It is particularly notable as being the first British Eastercon programme book to have a full colour cover...