Review of Beyond The Wall: Exploring George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire
In the past decade or so, mainstream fiction has had many an academic derisively tutting and shaking their head. As the Rowlings, the Browns, and the Meyers arrived, and grabbed the attention of the big-font-readers of the silver-screen-viewing general public, said academics seemed to get angrier and angrier. What in the hell are they reading? However, with the HBO Game Of Thrones series, we have a seen a mass interest in George R.R. Martin's series of literary-realist fantasy A Song of Ice and Fire and perhaps for the first time in quite a while, academic and mainstream readership is arguably ...
Why The Decline?
Stargate Universe. Firefly. Angel. Bionic Woman. Invasion. Jericho. Terra Nova. Etc. Etc. Etc. The list is pretty much endless. The last ten years have seen a vast array of science fiction blast onto our screens, and too often fizzle out very quickly. In the cinema, endless sequels such as X-Men, Men In Black, even the upcoming Star Trek threaten to milk the cash-cow of each franchise dry. People ask why science fiction is dying. Some debate whether its decline is even an actuality, but it's difficult to argue with the ratings and ...
Five ways to ruin a perfectly good sci-fi show
Sci-Fi has a long and proud history of cancellation. Perfectly good shows (and plenty of plain awful shows) have seen the axe for a multitude of different reasons. Let's take a look at five sure-fire ways to ruin a decent show. 1) Air your show on FOX As Firefly, The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Dollhouse has shown, quality has no impact on the lifetime of your show if you choose to air it on FOX. In fact, it would seem that longevity in FOX is inversely proportional to quality. Firefly was absolute quality. Just Google "firefly cancelled" ...
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Review of Beyond The Wall: Exploring George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire
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