Thaddeus Howze's Blog
September 24, 2016
Technology Alone Won’t Take Us to the Stars
I am a writer of speculative fiction. I am not ashamed. I consider it the highest calling to imagine worlds as yet unseen. To imagine futures not yet realized. My very existence is the speculative fiction of my ancestors. I wield powers they can only dream of. I can fill a room with light. I […]
April 9, 2016
How Smart is Superman?
As generally written? As smart as a loaf of bread. His intellectual capacity varies widely depending on who’s writing him. But that’s not his fault. He’s afflicted with Plot Induced Stupidity at least once an issue. When you’ve got a guy who can bounce bullets off his chest, lift an ocean liner, out-calculate a computer, […]
March 4, 2016
Superposition
The voidship Venture had been lost for almost four hundred years. In the dark between the stars, the Venture finally passed back into the light of an Imperial sun. As the ice vaporizes off the hull, its pitted surface showed the wear and tear of ‘stratum travel and the transition back to C space. As […]
February 6, 2016
The Big Crash of ‘42
Our addiction to more data, faster, better, stronger eventually overwhelmed our ability to build a bigger Internet… We killed the Internet in the year 2042. We didn’t know we were going to. Our addiction to data overwhelmed us as a species. The news went around some years later saying something about annual exponential data accumulation […]
February 2, 2016
Ecstasy as the Deepest Level of Aesthetic Purity: The 7 Levels of Aesthetic Subordination
Originally posted on The Lagomorph People:
The discussion of value of a particular narrative too often misidentifies rhetoric or realism as the sole factor placing a text at a high (or the highest) level of quality; realism, in particular, has this false association with narrative purity, and rhetoric in narrative has the mistaken association of…
The discussion of value of a particular narrative too often misidentifies rhetoric or realism as the sole factor placing a text at a high (or the highest) level of quality; realism, in particular, has this false association with narrative purity, and rhetoric in narrative has the mistaken association of…
January 25, 2016
Outside (Review: Ultimates #3)
Ultimates Assemble! Oy! In Ultimates #3 we are reintroduced to our team of perhaps the mightiest Avengers ever. Nope, not taking that back. I have followed the Avengers for forty years and no team in recent memory takes my breath away like these guys do. Black Panther, Spectrum, Blue Marvel, America Chavez and Captain Marvel: In […]
January 8, 2016
Announcing Top Writers 2016
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December 19, 2015
The Care & Feeding of Galactus (Review: Ultimates #2)
In this second issue of the Ultimates, Marvel’s most powerful team of Avengers, we learn a secret of the enigmatic and terrifying force of Nature, the mighty Galactus. When we last left this ultimate superteam which consists of Blue Marvel, Spectrum, Captain Marvel, Black Panther, and Ms. America they were planning to solve a […]
November 14, 2015
Review: Ultimates #1
Chekov’s Gun and ISO-8 *Article and un-review contains spoiler potential materials, proceed with caution. What’s not to love about Ultimates #1? Minority superheroes? Check. Bad-ass minority superheroes? Check. Proactive superheroes? Check. Ambitious superheroes? Absolutely! Check! Holy cow, is this the superteam the Avengers should have been? A group of superheroes who plan to be forward […]
Chekov’s Gun and ISO-8 (Ultimates #1)
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