Yesterday, 16 August, marked the 122nd anniversary of the birth of Hugo Gernsback, master of science fiction and father of…
Ballard identified himself as a libertarian. “I’m all for free sex, alcohol and would liberalize the drug laws if some…
Brilliant author and all-round douche Orson Scott Card (see previous rants here and here) has added to his store of…
Doris Lessing (winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2007) on the political situation in Zimbabwe: The political degradation…
The world bids Arthur farewell: AP: Writer Arthur C. Clarke Dies at 90 http://youtube.com/watch?v=8HwFP933Y_Q Arthur C. Clarke: 1917 – 2008…
Now accepting nominations for this year’s prize for Most Unfortunate Mixed Metaphor Ever, we present the first nominee: Business Day…
Has the steady stream of easily accessible science fiction on television and the Net started to kill off some of…
Salman Rushdie, forever one of the great voices of reason of our time (and a damn good read his books…
He deserves more than a cliché, but truly a great man has passed. Some other people’s thoughts: No, God Bless…
Vintage cartoonist Abner Dean did a series of illustrations for Life magazine in 1949, to illustrate a summary of George…
This is what happens when you leave non-native English speakers in charge of your translation into English: online Expat publication…
My pet peeve of the moment: people who write “I am loathed to admit it”. http://www.google.com/search?q=%22I+am+loathed+to+admit+it%22 Yes, you are loathed….
BBC Radio 4 has a 30-minute documentary on Philip K. Dick, entitled Confessions of a Crap Artist. From the blurb:…
Following on my marginal obsession with bad translation on Flemish television, here are some more horrible mistakes recently spotted in…
Internacia Televido offers television in Esperanto, because… well, why not? The Internet-based broadcasters aim to offer “news, sports, interviews, variety…
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