I don't think Humbert, Quilty & Co. fit into the SPB trope. The closest VN came to it was in the Pnin stories in the New Yorker, and even then B part was left out of the formula.
September 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I don't think Humbert, Quilty & Co. fit into the SPB trope. The closest VN came to it was in the Pnin stories in the New Yorker, and even then B part was left out of the formula.
The SBP trope outlined above produced a novel of lasting literary value exactly once: John Williams <b>Stoner</b> (1965).
September 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The SBP trope outlined above produced a novel of lasting literary value exactly once: John Williams <b>Stoner</b> (1965).
My early morning brain is so foggy, I thought tellthis was a Greek term that only select scholars of the Byzantine empire would nod sagely to in recognition.
April 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
My early morning brain is so foggy, I thought tellthis was a Greek term that only select scholars of the Byzantine empire would nod sagely to in recognition.
At last! The casus belli.
March 16, 2025 at 10:38 PM
At last! The casus belli.
Kij's sequel is <b>The River Bank</b> (2017). Her motivation in writing it was to incorporate some female characters (a young mole lady & a rabbit) into KG's male only world. It's been 8 years and a couple of hundred books, but I believe in this sequel Badger is very much alive at the last page
March 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Kij's sequel is <b>The River Bank</b> (2017). Her motivation in writing it was to incorporate some female characters (a young mole lady & a rabbit) into KG's male only world. It's been 8 years and a couple of hundred books, but I believe in this sequel Badger is very much alive at the last page
Why assume we're in a redo of 44 BC, when a Puzo reprise is a much more likely scenario (Today the Don settles all family business).
March 15, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Why assume we're in a redo of 44 BC, when a Puzo reprise is a much more likely scenario (Today the Don settles all family business).
I will assume that you're familiar with @kijjohnson.bsky.social 's lovely sequel to The Wind and the Willows? Dunno if it'll have any bearing on your currently cooling essay.
March 15, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I will assume that you're familiar with @kijjohnson.bsky.social 's lovely sequel to The Wind and the Willows? Dunno if it'll have any bearing on your currently cooling essay.
Wanda Gág was my personal Patient Zero for the fatal case of ailuromania I've been suffering from for the past 60 years.
March 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Wanda Gág was my personal Patient Zero for the fatal case of ailuromania I've been suffering from for the past 60 years.
Confusing Paul W.S. Anderson with other the Andersons that possess talent, ability, craft, vision and artistry is a longstanding sh*tposting tradition.
March 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Confusing Paul W.S. Anderson with other the Andersons that possess talent, ability, craft, vision and artistry is a longstanding sh*tposting tradition.
I've said this before, but I am impressed that the young Ms Griffith resisted any temptation to churn out for the insatiable maw of Del Rey endless paperback sequels of Marghe's further adventures on Jeep.
March 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I've said this before, but I am impressed that the young Ms Griffith resisted any temptation to churn out for the insatiable maw of Del Rey endless paperback sequels of Marghe's further adventures on Jeep.
Testify! Yet another of director Anderson's dreadful adaptations, right down there with Inherent Vice and The Fantastic Mister Fox.
March 9, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Testify! Yet another of director Anderson's dreadful adaptations, right down there with Inherent Vice and The Fantastic Mister Fox.
AEVV's strongest (strike that, only worthwhile) work was from the 1940s, when he was transcribing his dreams (with all their irrationally & imagery) into sturdy pulp SF. After he got swallowed up by L. Ron's Dianetics (via his editor Campbell, jr.) in the 1950s, he was never the same
February 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
AEVV's strongest (strike that, only worthwhile) work was from the 1940s, when he was transcribing his dreams (with all their irrationally & imagery) into sturdy pulp SF. After he got swallowed up by L. Ron's Dianetics (via his editor Campbell, jr.) in the 1950s, he was never the same
FYI "I'm Still Here" is going into wider release next month.
January 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
FYI "I'm Still Here" is going into wider release next month.
Help me. I still think that Steven Soderbergh and Barry Sonnenfeld are the same person. (It's a logical creative progession from Addams Family Values to Che).
January 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Help me. I still think that Steven Soderbergh and Barry Sonnenfeld are the same person. (It's a logical creative progession from Addams Family Values to Che).
You people are clearly not familiar with Project 2025. The plan for this Summer's Canuckschluss is to spin off Québec as an independent Francophone buffer state between the US and Greenland. Hope this helps.
January 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
You people are clearly not familiar with Project 2025. The plan for this Summer's Canuckschluss is to spin off Québec as an independent Francophone buffer state between the US and Greenland. Hope this helps.
Those were glorious days in the early 1990s when every couple of months an issue of Asimov's or a Datlow anthology would have a new Lucius tale. Where the heck did yesterday's snow get off to?
January 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Those were glorious days in the early 1990s when every couple of months an issue of Asimov's or a Datlow anthology would have a new Lucius tale. Where the heck did yesterday's snow get off to?
Well, going by his more recent work - just like Charles Stross - I have Adrian T. classified as a fantasy author nowadays.
December 30, 2024 at 10:14 PM
Well, going by his more recent work - just like Charles Stross - I have Adrian T. classified as a fantasy author nowadays.
Add Baxter, Morgan, Meaney and the Empire adjacent Egan.
December 30, 2024 at 12:22 AM
Add Baxter, Morgan, Meaney and the Empire adjacent Egan.
Stateside SF has been
unceremoniously smothered - only you Brits (yourself, MacAuley, Hamilton & Reynolds) are keeping the torch burning.
unceremoniously smothered - only you Brits (yourself, MacAuley, Hamilton & Reynolds) are keeping the torch burning.
December 30, 2024 at 12:16 AM
Stateside SF has been
unceremoniously smothered - only you Brits (yourself, MacAuley, Hamilton & Reynolds) are keeping the torch burning.
unceremoniously smothered - only you Brits (yourself, MacAuley, Hamilton & Reynolds) are keeping the torch burning.
Me at the start of 2024 / me at the end of 2024
December 29, 2024 at 2:22 AM
Me at the start of 2024 / me at the end of 2024
What are your thoughts on the final ending scene?
Cynical young me thought it was a cheat, reeking of network standards & practices.
Now that I've outlived both Rod and William, I believe something needed to be done to soften the blow.
Cynical young me thought it was a cheat, reeking of network standards & practices.
Now that I've outlived both Rod and William, I believe something needed to be done to soften the blow.
December 29, 2024 at 2:08 AM
What are your thoughts on the final ending scene?
Cynical young me thought it was a cheat, reeking of network standards & practices.
Now that I've outlived both Rod and William, I believe something needed to be done to soften the blow.
Cynical young me thought it was a cheat, reeking of network standards & practices.
Now that I've outlived both Rod and William, I believe something needed to be done to soften the blow.