Each week, Frequency Rotation examines a different song with a speculative-fiction theme. Genre, musical quality, and overall seriousness may vary.
Everyone from Gary Numan to Daft Punk has written songs about androids. Predictably, many of these so...
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This week our alphabetical survey of where to start reading different writers gets to I—or it would, if I wasn’t the shortest section of my bookshelves apart from the entirely absent Q. So as well as I, we will take in the rather more prolific J.
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Under stormy skies, a helmed figure calls lightning, controls the winds and moves mountains. Is it Thor, mighty God of thunder? No, it is simply Elmer Fudd singing his classic line asking the audience to “Be vewy qwiet, I’m hunting wabbits” bef...
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In my previous post I discussed what the literature of ancient Greece and Rome meant to my writing generally. Here I’ll show you how the classics have specifically affected my latest novel, The Legions of Fire.
This has two parts: first, the texts a...
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After eighteen Oz books, Ruth Plumly Thompson had understandably grown tired of the series, not to mention the ongoing fight with her publishers. Reilly and Lee continued to print the Oz books with multiple and frequently inexc...
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“By Any Other Name”
Story by Jerome Bixby
Teleplay by D.C. Fontana and Jerome Bixby
Directed by Marc Daniels
Season 2, Episode 21
Production episode: 2x21
Original air date: February 23, 1968
Star date: 4657.5
Mission summary
Enterprise fo...
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Allo-allo, WOT readers! Welcome to another Wheel of Time Re-read!
Today’s entry covers Chapter 23 of The Path of Daggers, because it turns out that Chapter 24 is STUPID LONG, and I just canna do it, Captain. I din’t have the power!
Previous re-re...
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Widely acclaimed for his work completing Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series, #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson now begins a grand cycle of his own, every bit as ambitious and immersive. The Way of Kings, book one of The S...
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I’ve been asked to introduce The Way Of Kings to you. And I have no idea how to start.
This is an odd position for me. Before, I’ve found it easy to explain my novels. Each one was built around one or two central premises. The gang of thieves ...
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Harry Turtledove and Judith Tarr’s Household Gods is a well-written book that always annoys the heck out of me. I thought about it after finishing Them Bones and wondering what other stories have time travel that don’t achieve anything.
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