Tag Archives: myth

Roger Zelazny’s Creatures of Light and Darkness

Posted on 4th January 2018 by Robert

Roger Zelazny’s Creatures of Light and Darkness is one of the more bizarre science fiction novels in the canon. I should point out that before the advent of the New Wave writers in the 1960s, science fiction reserved its adventurousness … Continue reading →

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Alex Irvine’s The “Supernatural” Book of Monsters, Spirits, Demons, and Ghouls

Posted on 8th October 2017 by Robert

I seem to be faced with another one of those television spin-offs, this time from the series Supernatural, about two brothers, Sam and Dean Winchester, who hunt demons and other nasty customers not entirely of this world. For those who, … Continue reading →

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Glen Cook’s Shadowline

Posted on 8th August 2017 by Robert

Glen Cook dedicated Shadowline, the first volume of his Starfishers trilogy, to Richard Wagner. Yes, that Richard Wagner. Think Götterdämmerung. It’s hard to know where to start with this one. Let me give you a setting: the “now” is the … Continue reading →

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Elizabeth Hand’s Black Light

Posted on 14th July 2017 by Robert

Elizabeth Hand’s Black Light is a foray into the world of dark gods, misty legends, and deep secrets. Lit Moylan (her real name is Charlotte) is about to finish high school. She lives with her parents in Kamensic, New York, … Continue reading →

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Laura Shamas’ We Three: The Mythology of Shakespeare’s Weird Sisters

Posted on 20th December 2016 by Robert

Forest, trees: there is a certain brand of scholarship that tends to focus on minute examinations of trees in the attempt to discover a forest. I am the last to decry the idea of analyzing parts in the hope of … Continue reading →

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Halldór Laxness’s Wayward Heroes

Posted on 28th November 2016 by Gary Whitehouse

Halldór Laxness is, of course, Iceland’s greatest and best-known writer and the island’s only Nobel Laureate. I say “of course” although I only started reading him about 10 years ago. Interest in him and his works has increased in the … Continue reading →

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Elizabeth Bear’s By the Mountain Bound

Posted on 23rd November 2016 by Robert

By the Mountain Bound is a prequel to All the Windwracked Stars, and takes quite a different cast. It is a pure fantasy, with none of the science-fiction aspects of the latter book, and leads one to think about possibilities … Continue reading →

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Elizabeth Bear’s All the Windwracked Stars

Posted on 23rd November 2016 by Robert

Take an event that we know from mythology, although it might have really happened. Let’s call it Ragnarok, just to give ourselves a point of reference, the final war when the Children of Light fought their brothers and sisters, the … Continue reading →

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Peter Milligan and Davide Gianfelice’s Greek Street: Cassandra Complex

Posted on 2nd October 2016 by Robert

I’m sure you’ve heard the song “Brush Up Your Shakespeare” from Kiss Me, Kate. Well, in the case of Peter Milligan and Davide Gianfelice’s Greek Street, it should go “Brush Up Your Aeschylus.” And Sophocles. And Euripides. Because you’re going … Continue reading →

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Peter Milligan and Davide Gianfelice’s Greek Street: Blood Calls for Blood

Posted on 2nd October 2016 by Robert

Greek Street: Blood Calls for Blood is the first compilation of the individual numbers of the comic series. It offers another retelling of the Greek myths, translated to the seamy underbelly of a contemporary city — in this case, London’s … Continue reading →

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