Category: On Writing
Picaresque Plot Structure in SFF
October 1st, 2012Early in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle series, a character reads a book with great delight, saying that he knows he should be reading more worthy literature, but enjoys picaro novels so much that he is constantly reading them.
That's all. He doe… more »
Where science fiction Came From
August 16th, 2010Where Science Fiction Cane From
(Only my personal ideas, of course).
As Sam Moskowitz has shown us, the genre goes back at least to Lucien of Samos?s account of a trip to the moon, circa, 150 AD, but the Odyssey pushes the genre back a few hundred y… more »