Hey, if any version of “Hallelujah” is going to get overplayed, it should be Cohen’s, you know, since he wrote the song and all. Also, there are a ton of bad versions out there, which tend to treat t… (View Post)
Re: Human Target, Smallwood is definitely mining the same sources Darwyn and Phil Noto did — ’50s/’60s advertising art, Robert McGinnis book covers and movie posters, etc. — and he's doing a great jo… (View Post)
Yeah, it's not a sci-fi novelist’s job to guess correctly, it’s simply to explore possibilities and how humans would react to those possibilities. Speaking of which, Neal Stephenson—whose cyberpunk w… (View Post)
As an aside, @Adam_Murdough, even though I've never seen them admit it, I have to believe the Tarkus was named after Tars Tarkas, leader of the warlike Green Martians from Burroughs’ John Carter nove… (View Post)