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March 20, 2020

The Same But Different: An Approach for Evaluating Originality with Scott H. Andrews

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The Odyssey Writing Workshop is a six-week course that takes place every summer on the campus of Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. Like many contributors at Speculative Chic, I had the privilege of attending, and I graduated in 2005 with today’s guest writer, Scott H. Andrews, the World Fantasy Award-winning editor of Beneath Ceaseless Skies. You may recognize Scott’s…

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January 23, 2020

BBC/Netflix Dracula: (For The) Blood is (the) Lives

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As you may or may not have heard by now, Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat recently collaborated on yet another TV miniseries adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula — three episodes, produced through the BBC, available right now on Netflix. And much like Gatiss and Moffat’s version of Sherlock Holmes (BBC Sherlock, admired and hated in roughly equal measure by fans…

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August 10, 2017

All Things End and Begin Again: “The Return of Dr Mysterio” and Why You Shouldn’t Sleep on Doctor Who and the Hugos

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The Hugo winner announcements come out August 11 and voting is already over, but we’re still talking about the nominees because it’s more fun than watching our clocks tick by! We’re continuing our look at the Best Dramatic Presentation: Short Form category with a perennial favorite of Hugo voters: Doctor Who. My history with the show doesn’t go back nearly…

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