I’ve been watching the third season of Deadwood on DVD, and I’m about halfway through. (No spoilers in the replies, please.)I felt a surge of pleasure when I spun the first episode and heard David Milch’s trademark combination of complex syntax, baroque vocabulary, and utter obscenity. It’s the language that makes this show, not the […]

So the other week I was at the Jemez Symposium with Steve Donaldson and Jane Lindskold, and our interlocutor asked, “So what is this ‘fantasy,’ exactly?” Or words to that effect.I came up with a rather boiletplate answer, that while SF’s contract with the reader was “What you’re about to read is possible (however unlikely),” […]

I’ll be offline for a few days, so I thought I’d entertain y’all with another flashback video review, dating from February of 1994.Tonight’s Hong Kong Klassic was “Royal Tramp I.” (Though I couldn’t read theChinese on the back of the video cassette, the fact that there was a sequelreassured me that the first one was […]