Tag: Writing
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The Greatest Science Fiction Novel Ever (Part 1)
If you ask someone to name the greatest Fantasy novel, you’ve got a very good chance of hearing them say, “The Lord of the Rings, of course.” It’s a pretty safe bet. The Lord of the Rings was named the Greatest Novel of the 20th century — overall, no genre specified — in a British…
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Dreams and Song Lyrics
I have commented before about how dumb most pop song lyrics are. This is not a new discovery. Steve Allen had a regular comedy bit on his TV show back in the 1950s, in which he read rock song lyrics aloud in a clear, unemotional intonation. (That was back when self-identified intellectuals thought pop culture…
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Retro-Review: Hellstrom’s Hive
Hellstrom’s Hive is a novel by Frank Herbert, better known as the creator of Dune. He wrote it in 1972, inspired by a somewhat obscure film by David Wolper called The Hellstrom Chronicle. I haven’t seen the movie, but I gather it’s an odd combination of a nature documentary about bugs, coupled with some alarmist narration by the fictional…
