The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

Nobody in their right mind would regard the slave trade as anything other than hideous and barbaric but this suggestion smacks of political...

First Impressions Intertextuality and Fannishness Second Thoughts Tertiary Thoughts  Quaternary Thoughts  Quinary...

I said: It will be remembered that Alan Dean Foster (nodding at Frank Herbert, I am sure) inserts a little quote from Princess Leia int...

Ever try. Ever fail. No matter. Try again. Fail better. Samuel Becket * This was not the essay I wanted to write. I wanted ...

I'll burn my books!—ah, Mephistopheles! Doctor Faustus In a 1980 interview Mark Hamill recalled how George Lucas had originall...

People who don’t like Star Wars seem to have mostly liked the Last Jedi; it is Star Wars fans who seem to have had misgivings about it. ...

The controversy over The Last Jedi has become so incendiary that one hesitates to rejoin the fray. I thought I was going to be one of a sm...