![]() ![]() And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and kind of intimidated by me, then I don't feel good about myself." A claymation fox coming to terms with a latent narcissistic personality disorder. The key moment of the film comes when he finally admits: "I think I have this thing where I need everyone to think I'm the greatest, the quote-unquote fantastic Mr Fox. He's also prone to bouts of existentialism and self-reflection. ![]() He has an estate agent and a tailor and a brilliantly antagonistic lawyer. "In the end we all die, unless you change" – Felicity FoxĪnderson created a much more richly drawn Fox in the film, he's a newspaper columnist with a complicated family life, ideas above his station, and a habit of clicking his tongue and whistling in a way that would quite obviously be intolerable to live with for any meaningful length of time. ![]() Anderson simply slashed away at the story until it fitted his tastes, albeit by reimagining the whole thing as an Ocean's Eleven-style heist caper. So when Anderson decided to adapt Dahl's book Fantastic Mr Fox, questions were raised over how successfully their sensibilities would mesh. ![]()
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![]() ![]() While the titular character, the Terrible Old Man, is never given an identifying name, the men who plot to steal from the old mysterious pirate are most explicitly marked by their “ethnic” sounding names: Angelo Ricci, Joe Czanek, and Manuel Silva. The plot is simple, but loaded with noticeable xenophobic undertones that make this little known story even less valuable than it otherwise would have been in light of Lovecraft’s far more historically significant later works. Originally published in the amateur journal Tryout (1921) and subsequently reprinted many times, including Pirate Ghosts of the American Coast (1988), the very brief story is notable for its New England coastline setting, one that Lovecraft would return to time and again in his more sophisticated writings. ![]() Lovecraft’s “The Terrible Old Man” could certainly be built upon and skillfully adapted into a truly captivating Gothic horror film. ![]() Reprinted many times.Īlthough there really isn’t that much literary value in the story, H. LOVECRAFT “The Terrible Old Man.” Written January 28, 1920, and first published in the Tryout, an amateur press publication, July 1921. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Moon, Venus, even Mars once thrived with life-life that was snuffed out not just Meanwhile on Earth the Japanese scientist Nemotoįears her worst nightmares are coming true. Will soon be faced with an impossible choice that will push him beyond terror, beyond What lies on the other side of the gateway? Malenfant decides to find out. ![]() Fueled by an insatiable curiosity, Reid Malenfant ventures to theįar edge of the solar system, where he discovers a strange artifact left behind byĪn alien civilization: A gateway that functions as a kind of quantum transporter,Īllowing virtually instantaneous travel over the vast distances of interstellar space. He continues to be one of the leading writers of hard science fiction, and one of the most thought-provoking as well. As always, Baxter plays with space and time with consummate skill…. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “He said you’re to get changed into formal clothes and meet him in the Great Hall, there’s a delegation coming from the Summer Court.” The Crown of the Summer Court by astolat (E, 24339) “The king sent me to get you,” Merlin said, with a tone that implied strongly that he wasn’t rolling his eyes where Arthur could see, but just wait until his back was turned.A Study in Natural Philosophy by Mad_Maudlin (T, 13,358) It wasn’t all that unusual for people to hide their daemons Merlin, however, seems to be taking it a little far.Onfindan by astolat (M, 15827 words) Arthur didn’t speak to him for a week after he found out.Favorite by astolat (E, 13035 words) Arthur was tipped back against the wall, his mouth open for breath and staring at the small arrow-slit window over Merlin’s head, trying to work out how it could possibly be that good with Merlin, of all people.A story of love, loyalty, and secrets too-long kept. A Warlock’s Worth by ella_bane (E, 20639 words) When a visiting prince sets his sights on Merlin, Arthur is not amused. ![]() ![]() ![]() In January 1605 Sir Richard Leveson talked to one of the royal physicians, and had courtiers praise Anne Newdigate to the queen in an unsuccessful attempt to get her made nurse. The nobility and gentry competed for places in the establishment for the unborn child. ![]() ![]() Anne went to Greenwich after the performance of the Masque of Blackness in January, as Dudley Carleton described it, "to lay down her great belly". There was an outbreak of smallpox at court and the doctors tried to stop her visiting a favourite maid of honour who had fallen ill. The queen's doctors advised her to go Greenwich Palace in December 1604 because it was thought to be healthier. The first child to be born to Anne and James after James succeeded Elizabeth I of England, her birth was thus awaited with much excitement among both the Scottish and the English. She developed pneumonia at 17 months and died the following year. Mary Stuart (8 April 1605 – 16 September 1607) was the third daughter and sixth child of James VI and I by Anne of Denmark. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gaining acclaim with her illustrated short-story series, Artbabe, first self-published through a Xeric Grant and later compiled as the Fantagraphics title Mirror, Window (2000), Abel rose to prominence with the release of her Harvey Award-winning graphic novel La Perdida (2006, Pantheon), about American expatriates in Mexico City. ![]() Cartoonist and writer Jessica Abel began producing comics during the mid 1980s while she was a student at the University of Chicago, where she drew her first full-length one-an outer-space version of Medea-to get out of writing a final paper for Classics 101 she earned an A on it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Space Lords (1965), Quest of the Three Worlds (1966), Under Old Earth (1970). His poetic work stretched the possibilities of space opera and future history and perpetually promises transcendence without having finally and anticlimactically to deliver it. This article discusses how Cordwainer Smith (i.e. Return to homepage or begin the tour by clicking on the Nav Bars below. ![]() Typical Smith short stories are "The Game of Rat and Dragon" whose hero is erotically obsessed with the cat he uses via a telepathic link to fight demonic beings that lurk in hyperspace, and "A Planet named Shayol" in which convicts are condemned to a penal planet where they grow extra organs for harvest and spend an eternity in drugged torment. Lastly, if you see Casher ONeill while youre visiting either the Gem Planet, Storm Planet or Sand Planet, tell him 'Hi' from me He was last seen at the end of 'The Quest of the Three Worlds' by Cordwainer Smith. Most of his short stories - many collected as The Rediscovery of Man - and his novel Norstrilia are set in a distant future where humanity has created its own aliens by growing on strange new worlds, and has made a vast underclass of animals modified into human appearance and intelligence. His small and distinguished body of work is preoccupied with themes of human dignity and often told in distanced narrative modes that he had learned from an early study of Chinese literature - we are informed that we are being told a story as a way of telling it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lowborn is Kerry's exploration of where she came from. But she often finds herself looking over her shoulder, caught somehow between two worlds. She has a secure home, a loving partner and access to art, music, film and books. She's a prizewinning novelist who has travelled the world. Twenty years later, Kerry's life is unrecognisable. She scores eight out of ten on the Adverse Childhood Experiences measure of childhood trauma. The poverty she grew up in was all-encompassing, grinding and often dehumanising.Īlways on the move with her single mother, Kerry attended nine primary schools and five secondaries, living in B&Bs and council flats. 'When every day of your life you have been told you have nothing of value to offer, that you are worth nothing to society, can you ever escape that sense of being 'lowborn' no matter how far you've come?' Kerry Hudson is proudly working class but she was never proudly poor. A powerful, personal agenda-changing exploration of poverty in today's Britain. ![]() ![]()
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