Brian Collins
@bdcollins95.bsky.social
Messy bisexual, genre fiction fan, movie snob, reluctant blogger, they/them. Hosts Science Fiction & Fantasy Remembrance.
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One New Year's resolution I made is finally hopping on the media thread bandwagon.
Everyone deserves companionship, although we don't always ask for it. It's "I Live with You" by Carol Emshwiller, from the March 2005 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction!
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Short Story Review: “I Live with You” by Carol Emshwiller
(Cover by David A. Hardy. F&SF, March 2005.) Who Goes There? Carol Emshwiller was one of the most acclaimed short-story writers of her generation, made more impressive because she kept doing go…
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November 27, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Everyone deserves companionship, although we don't always ask for it. It's "I Live with You" by Carol Emshwiller, from the March 2005 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction!
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Don’t enjoy The Last Jedi much, but I appreciate that it treats fandom with absolute contempt.
November 27, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Don’t enjoy The Last Jedi much, but I appreciate that it treats fandom with absolute contempt.
Hell might be other people, but then it might just be yourself. It's the final installment of Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, from the October 1975 issue of Galaxy!
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Serial Review: Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (Part 3/3)
(Cover by Richard and Wendy Peni. Galaxy, October 1975.) The Story So Far Allen Carpentier has died, which turns out to be only the beginning of his suffering. He’s in Hell now, or Infernolan…
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November 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Hell might be other people, but then it might just be yourself. It's the final installment of Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, from the October 1975 issue of Galaxy!
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Unfortunately we will never get a creative curveball from Disney like Return to Oz ever again.
November 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Unfortunately we will never get a creative curveball from Disney like Return to Oz ever again.
One shouldn't play God, lest your playthings BECOME God. It's "The Region Between" by Harlan Ellison, from the March 1970 issue of Galaxy!
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Novella Review: “The Region Between” by Harlan Ellison
(Cover by Jack Gaughan. Galaxy, March 1970.) Who Goes There? Harlan Ellison has a complicated legacy, and we can say “legacy” confidently now, given that he died in 2018. Ellison is one…
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November 20, 2025 at 4:23 AM
One shouldn't play God, lest your playthings BECOME God. It's "The Region Between" by Harlan Ellison, from the March 1970 issue of Galaxy!
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Would be cool if there was a democratic socialism that wasn’t patriotic/xenophobic.
November 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Would be cool if there was a democratic socialism that wasn’t patriotic/xenophobic.
My forehead is fucking monstrous.
November 17, 2025 at 9:40 AM
My forehead is fucking monstrous.
Don’t go dark on me, Bob.
November 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Don’t go dark on me, Bob.
We knocked on the doors of Hell's darker chamber. Pushed to the limit, we dragged ourselves in. It's the second installment of Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, from the September 1975 issue of Galaxy!
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Serial Review: Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (Part 2/3)
(Cover by Stephen Fabian. Galaxy, September 1975.) The Story So Far Allen Carpentier was once a bestselling if not very respected science fiction writer, but in the world of the living he recently …
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November 16, 2025 at 12:57 AM
We knocked on the doors of Hell's darker chamber. Pushed to the limit, we dragged ourselves in. It's the second installment of Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, from the September 1975 issue of Galaxy!
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Ya know, Trump has talked shit about Hillary Clinton a lot over the years, but has said very little bad about Bill.
a close up of a man 's face with a serious look on it .
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with a serious look on it .
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November 15, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Ya know, Trump has talked shit about Hillary Clinton a lot over the years, but has said very little bad about Bill.
Possibly the worst filmography of any current Hollywood director.
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Possibly the worst filmography of any current Hollywood director.
Jonny Greenwood is kind of a shithead who’s been complicit in the mass slaughter of Palestinians……… but he do be really good at scoring movies.
November 14, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Jonny Greenwood is kind of a shithead who’s been complicit in the mass slaughter of Palestinians……… but he do be really good at scoring movies.
I just realized, what were the odds we’d get two Richard Bachman movie adaptations in the same year?
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I just realized, what were the odds we’d get two Richard Bachman movie adaptations in the same year?
Now this is what I call a title for a fucking crime novel.
November 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Now this is what I call a title for a fucking crime novel.
The old Eyes Wide Shut Blu-Ray never looked good and some of you are just coping with that.
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The old Eyes Wide Shut Blu-Ray never looked good and some of you are just coping with that.
The cognitive dissonance (and moral depravity) required to believe people who work in a city and contribute to its culture must bend over backwards to live there while some people are entitled to live comfortably in Israel for being Jewish.
November 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The cognitive dissonance (and moral depravity) required to believe people who work in a city and contribute to its culture must bend over backwards to live there while some people are entitled to live comfortably in Israel for being Jewish.
Got two fat babies with me at work.
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Got two fat babies with me at work.
What was done in youth cannot be undone in age. It's "The Old Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in 1852 and reprinted in the October 1927 issue of Weird Tales!
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Short Story Review: “The Old Nurse’s Story” by Elizabeth Gaskell
(Cover by C. C. Senf. Weird Tales, October 1927.) Who Goes There? Here we have one of the most respected Victorian writers, if also perhaps underread to this day, with Mrs. Gaskell. A lot of her wo…
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November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
What was done in youth cannot be undone in age. It's "The Old Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in 1852 and reprinted in the October 1927 issue of Weird Tales!
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That GDT's Frankenstein feels watered down compared to the novel is forgivable, if not inevitable; that it feels watered down even when compared to the 1931 movie is a lot harder to forgive.
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
That GDT's Frankenstein feels watered down compared to the novel is forgivable, if not inevitable; that it feels watered down even when compared to the 1931 movie is a lot harder to forgive.
Some of the effects in Frankenstein are lowkey embarrassing, which is weird because del Toro movies at least tend to look good.
November 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Some of the effects in Frankenstein are lowkey embarrassing, which is weird because del Toro movies at least tend to look good.
When bro said “You’re the monster” I fucking cackled for a second.
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
When bro said “You’re the monster” I fucking cackled for a second.
Do people forget that like, the monster in Frankenstein the novel is a serial killer and misogynist?
November 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Do people forget that like, the monster in Frankenstein the novel is a serial killer and misogynist?
We have all these goddamn Frankenstein movies, meanwhile I’m still waiting on a good movie adaptation of The Monk.
November 9, 2025 at 6:13 AM
We have all these goddamn Frankenstein movies, meanwhile I’m still waiting on a good movie adaptation of The Monk.
There’s something missing about GDT’s movies, even his best, that prevents him from being one of The Greats™ imo. It’s a hard-to-define quality, or rather lack of a certain quality, that prevents my favorites of his from going above an 8/10.
November 9, 2025 at 5:25 AM
There’s something missing about GDT’s movies, even his best, that prevents him from being one of The Greats™ imo. It’s a hard-to-define quality, or rather lack of a certain quality, that prevents my favorites of his from going above an 8/10.
Bresson is one of those artists where his hatred of capitalism seems to be a byproduct of his hatred of modernity. His view of the post-industrial landscape, in which even supposed believers are cynical about their faith and the hustle is never-ending, is grim.
November 9, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Bresson is one of those artists where his hatred of capitalism seems to be a byproduct of his hatred of modernity. His view of the post-industrial landscape, in which even supposed believers are cynical about their faith and the hustle is never-ending, is grim.