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Regular columns and articles by The Fix’s feature writers.
The Day Job: Finding the Time
I teach high school and college English, have three school-aged children, drive a forty-minute commute to work, and I’m an essentially lazy person. I love long reading sessions where I bury myself in a recliner I bought just for reading, and I’m addicted to complete televisions series on DVDs.
Napping appeals to me. […]
From the Podosphere: November ‘07 podcasts
Before I talk about November’s batch of stories in Escape Pod, I want to put in good word for host, editor, and publisher, Stephen Eley. Eley’s introductions, his reflections and observations, philosophical musings, and snippets about his life, make for engaging listening, and the warmth and intelligence of his intros (and outros) give Escape […]
Continue ReadingFlickers on the Wall: A Stocking Full of Christmas Shorts
Give me a roaring fire, a cup of hot chocolate (I never got over my childhood fear of eggnog), a brightly lit tree, and a classic Christmas story, and I’m a happy man. Carols, holly, Santa, spiced cider, snowmen, and brightly wrapped packages—I never tire of them. I’m a Christmas junky. […]
Continue ReadingAudiobook Fix: WotF XXIII and A War of Gifts by Orson Scott Card
Audible.com is not new to publishing audio short fiction. In 2003, they published audio “Best of 2002″ collections from Asimov’s, Analog, and Fantasy & Science Fiction magazines. They followed that up with a whole year of Fantasy & Science Fiction audio goodness. Here in 2007, Audible offers another innovative audio collection: L. […]
Continue ReadingDistillations: Imagery
For many people, poetry is a strange new land, as bizarre as any landscape imagined by Tolkien, Heinlein, or in extreme cases, Lovecraft. As the number of poetry reviewers at The Fix grows, I will be taking some time each month to discuss the mechanics of poetry. This guide will not make the landscape any […]
Continue ReadingThe Day Job: Being Professional
One of the ongoing arguments in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) concerns what makes a writer professional. A small but influential cadre within the organization defines the term easily: a writer is professional when she makes her living from selling her writing. Anything less makes the writer a […]
Continue ReadingFrom the Podosphere: October ‘07 podcasts
In “Immortal Sin” by Jennifer Pelland (read by Stephen Eley), a man murders a girl who refuses to marry him. His Catholicism suggests that if he repents, he can avoid being damned and going to Hell—except the priest to whom he confesses won’t absolve him because he must first be truly repentant. And since […]
Continue ReadingFlickers on the Wall: The Shape of SF Short Films
In my last two columns, I commented on short films that you could acquire for home viewing, either by downloading from a website or by purchasing a DVD. But the newest short films are rarely available. This month, I’ll examine some of the best films that are still on the festival circuit. To see these, […]
Continue ReadingScience Fiction and the Two Cultures
In 1959, the noted English scientist and novelist C.P. Snow gave a famous lecture titled “The Two Cultures” about the breakdown of communication between the sciences and humanities, later published in book form as The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. Snow wrote then that the
intellectual life of…western society is increasingly being split into […]
Audiobook Fix: Dreamsongs Vol. 1 by George R.R. Martin
Audiobook Selections from Dreamsongs: Volume 1: Fan Fiction and Sci-Fi from Martin’s Early Years by George R.R. Martin, read by Claudia Black, Mark Bramhall, Scott Brick, Roy Dotrice, Kim Mai Guest, Kirby Heyborne, and Adrian Paul, is the first of three George R.R. Martin short story collections, each of which contain unabridged selections from books […]
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