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In the beveled mirror over Don’s dining table, mine is an ex-wife’s face. Broomstick hair crackles around hollow, harried eyes that look like a beaten dog’s. I could lick or bite without warning.
My reflection regards the divorce papers Don’s lawyers drafted to rob me of the house we bought with Don’s coin and my sweat. […]

Dearest Readers: This week we’re trying something new with Blog For A Beer. You seem to enjoy the posts that spark lively conversation and friendly debate the best, and we enjoy watching these conversations evolve. So from now on, most of the Fantasy Friday posts will be actual blog posts for you to […]

Movies

“Iron Man” Tops $100 Million at the Box Office
Movie Based on Will Eisner’s “The Spirit” to Be Released on Christmas Day
SciFi Wire Reports: “Prince Caspian” Is a Step Up in Every Way
Director Breck Eisner Plans to Remake George Romero’s “Crazies” for the Modern Era

Television

New NBC Horror Series “Fear Itself” Lacks Female Writers and Directors
Sci-Fi […]

Of the things that annoy me about fantasy fiction, my biggest pet peeve is with stories and novels that lack specificity–specificity of place, time, culture, even ethnicity. The reader is given a default medieval Europe-type setting, filled it with random, unspecified peasant or royal types, no discernible culture beyond “they believe in magic” or […]

Oh, oh! The naughtiness of you, now. Haven’t you been warned time and again? You, with the dirty face. And you, with the ragged rip in yer smock. I’ll trade ye to the Pins-n-Needles Man, I will.
You doubt that I’ll do it? You doubt he exists? Well, once ye numbered six and now yer five. […]

It’s Fantasy Friday again! Every week we invite the readers to comment here on some science fiction and fantasy related topic. This week we want to discuss Comics & Movies. Iron Man opens today, and some folks, at least, think that the movie is better than the comic it was based on. […]

Movies

Ironman Hits Theaters Tomorrow

io9 declares the movie better than the source material and worth seeing.
Will Samuel L. Jackson make a cameo?
Already there’s talk of a sequel. Not that RDJ has anything better to do.

SciFi Wire Reports That Ian McKellen Will Reprise His Role As Gandalf In The Hobbit; LOTR Geeks Rejoice

Television

Televisionary Gets An Advance […]

Torchwood’s second season is now over in both the US and Britain, and, after the disappointing season finale, some viewers are wondering whether they’ll want to return for season three. On the other hand, season two was significantly stronger than the season before it. And if season three continues with that trend, Torchwood […]

The day has come to announce the winners of the Fangland contest. We were very impressed with all of the entries, but three really stood out.
Best Creepy Story - The Candy Witch by Naamenblog
Best Use of Folktale - Open Sesame by Nina
First Place - Untitled (based on Frankenstein) by ChiaLynn
ChiaLynn’s story was a particular […]

Wendy was wrapped in an old green blanket. She smelled the musk of it, the smell of mold-eaten clothing hovering on the edge of her awareness. She was trapped in the blanket, suffocating in the blanket.
From outside of her cocoon she heard footsteps against metal, footsteps on broken leaves. Footsteps snapping a twig or two, […]