The Frad Lab

Well, this is shaping up to be a month of resurgences for long-dormant SF franchises. After the new Star Wars, which seems to have swept awa...

Like much of the world, I was hit by the one-two punch this week of the deaths of David Bowie and Alan Rickman, both at the age of 69 and bo...

When I first moved back to the Bay Area, two years ago now, I wrote a post considering both the year just gone and the year to come. I was c...

Apropos of nothing, my thought of the week has been what shitty superheroes the X-Men are. To a certain extent all superheroes aren't ...

Revising a novel has always been my bete noire. The line-editing (ie, the thing everybody thinks of when they hear "revising") com...

It occurs to me that I haven't based a blog post on something I heard on the Nerdist recently, so if that's your thing, then you...

I was in kind of a silly mood last night, so I watched Rambo: First Blood Part 2 on Netflix, and it reminded me of why 1980s action flicks w...