The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

When C.S Lewis was a pupil at one of the many very nasty prep schools that were dotted around England in the Edwardian era he started to tak...

 If you would like the Stupidly Long Essay in one place, than there's a no-frills PDF and Epub available in my little Ko-Fi shop. (£3 or...

 Let's Talk About the multi-verse All the stories in the world can be put in one of two boxes We comic book fans are very resistant to p...

If Shakespeare and Hamlet could ever meet, it must be Shakespeare’s doing. Shakespeare could, in principle, make himself appear as Author wi...

I n Spider-Man: No Way Home the Peter Parker of the Marvel Cinematic Universe encounters Doctor Octopus and the Green Goblin. And Sandman an...

I would have been perfectly happy for Ultimate Spider-Man to have remained a story. I would have been perfectly happy for it to have remaine...

If stories are only valuable if they are Pretend-Real; and if one particular Author(ity) has the power to say which stories are Pretend-Real...

More than one person has told me that they like Star Wars but that they don't like "the fan fiction". They mean that they like...