Arthur started a blog initially to make fun of Dan getting a blog. And then started posting in it. Now he's trying to put his writing somewhere where people will actually see it.
articles
- Noir Fantasy: My New Favourite Subgenre Jedediah Berry's The Manual of Detection melds Chandleresque crime and Chesterton-inspired fantasy and comes up with a whole new flavour.
- Six Hours of My Life I Won't Get Back If the entire Critters film series were wiped out of history absolutely nothing of value would be lost.
- Pwned by Chaos Brian Craig's Pawns of Chaos shows surprising depth for a Warhammer 40,000 novel.
- The Emperor Commanded Me to "Make It So" Is it too late to review Oblivion? Never mind. Here's a review of Oblivion anyway.
- Worms, Worms In the Deep A review of a reasonably-priced box set of the first three Tremors movies.
playpen posts
- at 15:05 on 13-03-2010
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at 19:07 on 12-03-2010
Enthusiastic expression of enjoyment! Link to thematically similar video.
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at 14:57 on 12-03-2010
It occurs to me that by rejecting the rules and structures that make a game a game, what Tale of Tales have done is come up with computer-implemented toys. The Endless Forest, The Gr...
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at 13:20 on 12-03-2010
(Also, I notice that they are doing the Ron Edwards thing of claiming that there was no indie scene to speak of when they came along. I'm pretty damn sure there were plenty of independent desi...
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at 13:19 on 12-03-2010
Probably only Dan will get this, but the big list of "no's" from the Tale of Tales site reminds me of the end of The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz... No competition. No genre. No gu...
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- 23:00, 13-03-2010 on Noir Fantasy: My New Favourite Subgenre:
I remember being very, very unimpressed with Thraxas. It felt like substandard Chandler being written by substandard Prat...
permalink - 20:32, 13-03-2010 on Noir Fantasy: My New Favourite Subgenre:
I'm reasonably sure, in fact, that since it originated as part of a carnival procession the steam-powered truck in question is i...
permalink - 13:56, 13-03-2010 on I Wish I May, I Wish I Might, Find Someone Who'll Translate This Right:
Googling around I find Danusia Stok, whose main speciality in translation seems to be... textbooks. Which isn't the best backgro...
permalink - 10:15, 12-03-2010 on Noir Fantasy: My New Favourite Subgenre:
I'm pretty sure there aren't any airships in it. At least, there aren't any that play a sufficiently significant part t...
permalink - 00:47, 12-03-2010 on Noir Fantasy: My New Favourite Subgenre:
"Never Sleeping", Al. ;)
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