Steven Howell Wilson's Blog, page 41

Review: The Child Thief by Brom

http://www.stevenhwilson.com/2013/04/22/review-the-child-thief-by-brom/

The Art of Enterprise Regained

http://www.stevenhwilson.com/2013/04/15/the-art-of-enterprise-regained/

Review: House of Zeor

So I've decided to actually house my blog at my own website. Not wanting to dis my LJ friends, though, I'll continue to cross-post the links here!

http://www.stevenhwilson.com/2013/04/09/review-house-of-zeor/

Review - Uncanny Avengers #5

I've made no secret of the fact that I'm not much of a fan of modern comics. I don't like the pace of the storytelling, where everything is so obviously plotted to fill a six-or-twelve-issue trade. Often nothing significant happens in a single month's issue, and even more often, the thirty-day wait between issues in which the plotting is more suited to a daily soap opera causes me to forget what happened before, and I lose the thread of the story entirely. This is intentional,...

My First Fanzine

I spent some time last week with a friend I haven't seen in 30 years. He's seventeen, he wants to be a science fiction writer, and his name's Steve Wilson. Which is my roundabout way of saying that I recently sat down and read, for the first time in a looooonnnggg time, the first piece of fiction I completed once I realized that, whatever else I did with my life, I wanted to spend most of it writing.

I read it because, in the course of preparing my website and making it the comple...

REVIEW - Star Trek: The Original Series Soundtrack Collection

I love music. Now don't misunderstand me, I don't know a damn thing about music. I once authored a suggested listening list for the local library called "Getting Started in Classical Music" (or something like that) but I cribbed most of it from a dear friend who actually knew something about the stuff. I've had no classes in music theory, and if you ask me to read sheet of music, you'll find me counting lines on the scale. I guess that's the musical equivalent of...

Am I a Humanist?

For several weeks I've been reading Karen Armstrong's The Battle for God, a history of fundamentalism from its origins in the wake of the Enlightenment through the present. It covers specific fundamentalist movements which grew in Christianity, Judaism  and Islam. I'm not reviewing the book, not yet anyway. I was moved comment, though, on one passage, in which she reprints a "definition of Secular Humanism" which was offered by a Protestant fundamentalist group when...

Review - Mention My Name in Atlantis by John Jakes

John Jakes is best known for his historical fiction. Back around the time of the American Bicentennial, his Kent Family Chronicles were bestsellers. Big, thick books chock full of encounters with famous personages, colorful characters, sex, violence and vivid descriptions of the tastes, smells and textures of America's past, the series comprised eight volumes when all was said and done. The original intent was to chronicle the adventures of the Kent Family, whose progenitor, Phillip Kent...

Review - Remember My Name in Atlantis by John Jakes

John Jakes is best known for his historical fiction. Back around the time of the American Bicentennial, his Kent Family Chronicles were bestsellers. Big, thick books chock full of encounters with famous personages, colorful characters, sex, violence and vivid descriptions of the tastes, smells and textures of America's past, the series comprised eight volumes when all was said and done. The original intent was to chronicle the adventures of the Kent Family, whose progenitor, Phillip Kent...

Mysticon 2013 Report

I was a guest for the second time at this fine Roanoke-based con this past weekend. MystiCon is a smallish con, which completely fills every inch of the Holiday Inn Tanglewood and boasts two big media guests (Peter Davison and Orson Scott Card this time) and dozens of authors, artists and podcasters. There are no less than five panel rooms, running concurrently, gaming, dealers and an art show. It's very similar to the cons I'm accustomed to in Baltimore, and is clearly a fan-run labo...