Expanding the Wold Newton Concept: J.T. EdsonBy Brad MengelIn 1972, Philip José Farmer created the Wold Newton Family with the publication of Tarzan Alive, where he postulated that many great heroes and villains of adventure fiction were all related.This concept, that many different series were connected, has inspired writers like Howard Waldrop, Kim Newman, Alan…
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Expanding the Wold Newton Concept: J.T. EdsonBy Brad MengelIn 1972, Philip José Farmer created the Wold Newton Family with the publication of Tarzan Alive, where he postulated that many great heroes and villains of adventure fiction were all related.This concept, that many different series were connected, has inspired writers like Howard Waldrop, Kim Newman, Alan…
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The Root of the Wold Newton Family Tree: A Speculative Examination of Philip José Farmer’s Quest By Dennis E. Power In the summer of 2009, the author of this piece was part of a team who had the enviable and unenviable honor of helping the heirs of Philip José Farmer gather together his papers. The…
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The Root of the Wold Newton Family Tree: A Speculative Examination of Philip José FarmerBy Dennis E. Power In the summer of 2009, the author of this piece was part of a team who had the enviable and unenviable honor of helping the heirs of Philip José Farmer gather together his papers. The task for…
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A WOLD NEWTON PRIMER! Article written by Win Scott Eckert
Win Scott Eckert © 2005-2010Farmerphile no. 1Christopher Paul Carey and Paul Spiteri, eds., Michael Croteau, publisher, July 2005 “A Nova of Genetic Splendor” By Win Scott Eckert On December 13, 1795, at 3:00 p.m., a meteorite came plunging to the earth, landing near the English village of Wold Newton. The impact site became part of…
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Ray Bradbury, We Hardly Know Thee
It’s very disconcerting when one of your heroes gets old and cranky and weird. Sadly, this happened to me last week, with respect to one of America’s greatest living authors,Ray Bradbury. We knew something was up with the author of such important and even vital classics as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and Dandelion Wine…
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Frank McCourt, Mentor to Generations of NY Geeks, Dead at 78
Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of Angela’s Ashes, died on Sunday, July 19, of metastatic melanoma. Though his loss is undoubtedly felt acutely in literary circles, it is also felt among the thousands of students to whom he taught English and Creative Writing, first at McKee Vocational High School in Staten Island, NY and then…
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Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith Quirk Books; April 2009; $12.95 What is there left to be said about the Undead Sensation That’s Sweeping the Nation? The buzz for this book was so loud that they rushed it into publication a few months early (which no doubt accounts for the…
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Anime for Comics Fans; Comics for Anime Fans: Beauty and Literature
Welcome to the second article in our series, where American animation and comics and fans of Japanese anime and manga can connect with each other through pairs of titles that share tone, themes or character types in common. Today’s pairing is about series that have been influenced by classic works of fine arts and literature,…
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The Un-Ethics of Watchmen, Part 1: A Bird’s-Eye View
Editor’s note: With the imminent release of Watchmen, we thought we’d try and get a different perspective. So we asked Alexandra Honigsberg, a professional ethicist and genre author, to read the book for the first time and delve into the ethos of the world created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. If super-hero comics are…
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Power, by Dennis O’Neil
For a while now, I’ve been thinking that maybe Jonathan Lethem is the best writer of his generation. What prevents me from just coming out with it… Dammit, Lethem is the king! – is that I haven’t read many other writers of Lethem’s (and my son’s) generation. Maybe the Elvis Presley of prosemeisters is lurking…
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Author David Foster Wallace Found Dead
David Foster Wallace, the novelist, essayist and humorist best known for his dark and ironic wit was found dead Friday night at his home in Claremont California, according to the Claremont Police Department. He was 46. Wallace’s wife found her husband had hanged himself when she returned home about 9:30 p.m. Friday, said Jackie Morales,…
