WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #239: THE COLLECTOR’S BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION Edited by David Stuart Davies Just by chance, I stumbled upon David Suart Davies’s monumental The Collector’s Book of Science Fiction (aka, Wordsworth Book of Science Fiction) presents over a 1000 pages of classic 19th and early 20th Century SF. I own a 100 SF anthologies, but The Collector’s Book of Science Fiction contains a massive amount of material unavailable […]
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Agatha Christie: A Very Short Introduction (2025) by Gill Plain Today’s a read is a recent edition to the A Very Short Introduction series. I have read various ones over the years, including one on Crime Fiction (2015). This was a particularly bad reading experience, as not only did the writer of it seem to actively dislike the genre (except a few hallowed American authors) […]
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Salad Days and Sleuthing: Five Cozy Stories Shaped by Youth, Innocence, and Vulnerability William Shakespeare is credited with coining the term “salad days.” In Antony and Cleopatra, Cleopatra dismisses her earlier love of Julius Caesar as being in “My salad days, When I was green in judgment, cold in blood.” In many mysteries, even before someone is murdered, the protagonists are already doing something that’s emotionally risky. Some […]
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Deadstreaming in Three, Two, One: Sarah Driscoll on Twitch and Social Media’s Dark Sides The internet is a wonder of the twentieth century stretching well into the twenty-first. It not only revolutionized communication; it’s the great information equalizer. No longer do you need access to a teacher, a library, or a set of World Book Encyclopedias; now anyone with an internet connection can access Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Brittanica, or Reddit. […]
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Possessed by Possession: Five Novels on the Dark Allure of Our Inner (and Outer) Demons Fair warning: this was to be a brief overview of possession novels and films that I find engrossing. Good to my word, there are some to choose from at the end of this article. To be honest, many lists of great possession novels are an internet search away, and their existence is not surprising. My […]
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