Having just finished The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells (having previously read an omnibus edition with The Time Machine and The War of the World), I thought it worthwhile to talk about him and his work, not to mention his importance for the genre of...

1. Genesis, "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight" 2. Muse, "Supermassive Black Hole" 3. Queen, "Another One Bites the Dust" 4. Pink Floyd, "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1" 5. Porcupine Tree, "Fear of a Blank Planet" 6. David Bowie, "Ashes to...

Back in August, I did a First Lines Quiz inspired by my friend Lazy over at Lazy's Library. Then (as in Lazy's inspirational case) the challenge was to recognise from which book (by which author) the first lines in question were taken. This time,...

I promised in a previous post to talk a little about genre... Genre is many things, it would seem. Roughly speaking, I would say that there are two major different types of genre: content genres and format genres. Perhaps this is more than a bit...

Last evening, I watched Werner Herzog's documentary Grizzly Man, about bear lover and fanatic (for want of a better word) Timothy Treadwell. The film, made by Herzog in 2005, is composed mainly from the the over 100 hours of video filmed by Treadwell...