Tag: mysteries
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Playing Around with Narrative Tropes
A few years back, a dear friend told me that he and his girlfriend had spent a night in a cabin with limited entertainment: VHS copies of Road House, and Ghost. “Awesome, so you watched Road House?” “No, she chose Ghost.” Ah. Of course. I’ve always leaned toward the action flicks, myself, and although my […]
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Science Fiction Mysteries (a.k.a. Genre is a Construct)
It’s been said that “all stories are mystery stories” — a charming idea, for reasons I’ll discuss today, but also too prescriptive, so let’s modify it from the outset: “all stories can be mystery stories”. There’s a lot to love about looking at literature this way, both as a reader and as a writer. Stories […]
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The Writer Returns to the Scene of the Theme
So, it’s five days until Third Planet Fall Down releases, and I’m chuckling today over how difficult it is for a writer to escape who they are in their writing. The “work will out”, as the saying goes — and oh my, does it ever, when it comes to being made to confront our greatest […]
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