January 15, 2019
I admit it: I was a little braindead when the time came to think of a topic for January’s roundtable. The thing that immediately came to mind was this: it’s the first of the year. What’s the first thing that you remember that set you on the path to becoming the magnificent speculative fiction fan that you are today? What…
October 18, 2017
If I close my eyes, I can still picture it. In fourth grade, my teacher asked us to write a book report and to attach a bookmark featuring a scene from the book. I remember sitting at my desk, pencil poised over the narrow strip of white paper while I waited for inspiration. When it finally came, I drew an…
January 11, 2017
Stephen King is a man who needs no introduction from someone as lowly as me. Everybody’s heard of him. Almost everybody’s read his work or watched a movie based on one of his many, many novels or short stories. I cannot claim to have read all of his work (nowhere close at this point), but I have read my fair…