by G.L. Breedon | Aug 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
There is an interesting article in the Atlantic today by E.D. Kain, the blogger of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen about the current popularity of Fantasy stories in fiction, movies, and TV. Kain thinks were in a Fantasy bubble that will inevitably burst. As much as...
by G.L. Breedon | Aug 1, 2011 | Science, Space
This is fun news. Seattle’s Space Needle is giving away a free trip to space to celebrate their 50th anniversary. The space flight will be with Space Adventures. Who doesn’t want to free trip to space? I’m entering...
by G.L. Breedon | Jul 29, 2011 | Art
When I was a kid, about 11 or twelve I guess, there was an episode of 60 Minutes that featured an architect building a new kind of city in the desert of Arizona. Shortly thereafter, I read a more detailed article about him in Future Life Magazine, a magazine of...
by G.L. Breedon | Jul 28, 2011 | Art, Science, Science Fiction, Space
There is a nice article at BBC News today about the relationship between spaceship art and spaceship design. There is even a quote at the end of the article by my favorite professor from college, Eric S. Rabkin. But space is a particularly romanticized part of our...
by G.L. Breedon | Jul 27, 2011 | Books, Fantasy, Reviews
I finished Patrick Rothfuss’s The Wise Man’s Fear a while ago. Before I write about that I should write about The Name of the Wind, the novel that precedes it in his King Killer Chronicle. I loved The Name of the Wind. LOVED IT. I hadn’t read a novel...
