Benjamin Espen
Follow-up on a capsule history of English scifi and fantasy
I was looking around my own blog to see if I had ever written anything on Verne while I was prepping my review of Eighty Days Around the World, and I stumbled on this:
A Capsule History of English SciFi and Fantasy
I wrote that post in November of 2010,
Mythical and Submerged Lands of the World
Robert E. Howard and other pulp era writers were pretty good on anthropology, but a little less good on plate tectonics and catastrophism.
Which isn’t to say there weren’t some astonishing things in the geologic record,
Linkfest 2022-03-04: Peter the Aleut
A great Twitter thread from the author of the Grey Goose Chronicles Substack, on Russian Orthodox missions in Alaska. I thought the story of Saint Peter the Aleut was a bit out of character for the Franciscan missions in California, and sure enough down thread Stone Age Herbalist agrees with
Around the World in Eighty Days Book Review
I don’t think I’ve reviewed anything by Verne at the blog. So let’s look at Around the World in Eighty Days [Amazon link]. I selected this one because of this blog post by DarwinCatholic, Around the World in 80 Days - Thoughts and Adaptations. It was this
Brandon Sanderson's Kickstarter
The big news in the publishing world today is Brandon Sanderson’s Kickstarter for four new novels. The totals just keep going up, but as you can see from my screenshot he is approaching 65k backers and $16.6M. That comes out to an average of $250 per backer, an