Harry Harrison, R.I.P.
The New York Times has an obit. Found out via Fred Pohl. I read some of Harrison’s work, but probably most memorable to me was the series which began with Hammer and Cross series in particular captured my imagination. With hindsight it’s pr…
How Game of Thrones Should Have Ended
I haven’t watched most of the films (or video games, or T.V. shows) being parodied by How It Should Have Ended. But I have read A Game of Thrones. So I’m confused as to why this struck me as rather unfunny, in comparison to most of the othe…
Is “Game of Thrones” racist? Not even wrong….
One of the aspects of fiction is that it serves as a Rorschach test. Over at Slate Nina Shen Rastogi has a post up, Is “Game of Thrones” Racist?:
The Dothraki are dark, with long hair they wear in dreadlocks or in matted braids. They sport …