The Crotchety Old Fan

Twice.
SFSignal has started a meme – The Top 48 Sci-Fi Film Adaptations.
Fred Kiesche (of the Signal and Texas Best Grok) tagged me.
Mike Glyer of File 770 tagged me too.
Does that mean I have to tag ten other people, or can I still get by with only five?
Is it possible to get tagged twice, or does [...]

Today there will probably be a large number of posts as there are a large number of things going on.
First up – the cornucopia of top ten lists.? SFSignal and Rick Novy both raised awareness on these.? They’re offered by Gwyneth Jones (by women writers), Rob Grant (comic SF), Dick Jude (broad top 10)?and Michael [...]

Rick Novy comments on my comments and offers a couple of clarifications/corrections.
Diversity is a GOOD thing.? Familiarity doesn’t just breed contempt, it also breeds understanding. Diversity in breeding has also proven to be good for gene pools.?
More on Rick’s commentary later.
Enter the?Octopus/Matt’s Bookosphere has now picked me up twice and has been added to the [...]

For those who don’t know, Rick is an SF author, award winner and (claims to) have read the entire Battlefield Earth series.? His personal?’have read’ list? on his website includes?what appears at quick glance to be a well-rounded grounding in classic SF.
Despite having read the BE decolagy, his blog posts appear to be those of [...]

Rick Novy has been addressing the question of “where is SF going” (more properly posed as ‘where can it go?’) over his past few blog posts.
In short he says “One small but vocal group clambers for what is known as “mundane” SF. This is an artificial subgenre, defined by restricting the speculative element to what [...]