Walter Scott's review of Frankenstein gives a nice sense of the emerging consciousness of something like science fiction as a particular class of storytelling.

Tell it to John Donne. Also: yay, women in computer science.

Thanks Swenson! I must have been only seven or eight the first time I played Zork and I never stopped hoping I would find ancient tunnel system under my neighborhood.

When I was writing Soon I Will Be Invincible I mostly had Jonathan Lethem's book Fortress of Solitude in mind - I'm always surprised people don't remember that book more.

Does anyone else feel like they're listening to the System Shock soundtrack?

@Athensjail: Supposedly he and Denzel Washington have *competing* Hannibal projects.

All I want from Vin Diesel is the Hannibal Barca biopic he's working on.

This is clearly an artist who hated drawing feet.

@bluehinter: Trilogy of Failure, I like that! We should issue a boxed set.

I haven't thought about that the Change War in forever! Is it me or is Leiber kind of a forgotten man of SF/F literature? Because of his sexual politics, maybe? I suppose Chabon's Gentlemen of the Road was a tribute.