It’s a Thanksgiving tradition, apparently, for people in the UK to fill out maps of the US.   Which has happened again this year. They seem pretty good sports about it, too. It seems a little unfair.  We don’t spend our Bank Holiday Weekends trying to identify Old Jersey, Old York, and Old Hampshire. Apparently […]

While noodling around on Tor.com after admiring the John Picacio art on my story, I found an essay by the excellent and learnèd Ada Palmer on Shakespeare in the Age of Netflix, with emphasis on BBC’s recent Hollow Crown series, which I recommend as an excellent analysis of the problems of staging (or filming) the plays […]

If you live anywhere in North America, the overwhelming likelihood is that your weekend weather forecast is going to completely suck, and you’ll probably be spending most if not all of the weekend indoors, where it’s warm. Lucky you!  That means you can brighten your weekend with a brand-new story from me, and it’s free […]

While I was traveling, I caught up with some recent pop-culture blockbusters (by watching them on airplanes), and now I have a question: Where did all the damn solemnity come from? When you watch a genre film, there are certain things you have a right to expect from that genre.  And when you find that these […]