Tag Archives: fantasy

Vorpalizer on fantasy film and worldbuilding

Posted on 03/12/2013 by

The great temptation, the fatal temptation, of adult fans of fantastic fiction is the temptation of Law. We want the contents of our imagination taxonomied and classified, ordered and indexed, subject to rules and regulations. Gaps exist to be filled. … Continue reading →

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A Charles Vess Art

Posted on 01/22/2013 by

An untitled Charles Vess drawing/painting/art from Heavy Metal #12

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Editor’s Note to Heavy Metal v1 #8

Posted on 01/13/2013 by

In our local bookstore and yours, too, in the section where the self-help books were (replacing the women’s liberation books, which in turn had replaced the American Indian volumes after the Black Studies tomes), we now find shelves of science … Continue reading →

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Video Games and Parochialism

Posted on 03/29/2012 by

John H. Stevens has an article over at SF Signal titled “De-Parochializing SF Criticism: Is It Really Necessary? Or Even Possible?” The article is part of a larger column that he does weekly (?) about science fiction/fantasy and how those … Continue reading →

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On Fantasy

Posted on 07/27/2010 by

I’m a fairly regular reader of Carnal Nation in that I’m aware of new and exciting articles that are posted there, and today I noticed an article that I have things to say about. The article posits that there are … Continue reading →

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