Now that Amazon has acquired film rights to Lord of the Rings, and Netflix has licensed all seven Chronicles of Narnia, it is time to stop and ask ourselves: How much do bad adaptations of our favorite books really bother us? I am not saying, mind you, that the adaptations will be bad. But the…
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CSFF Blog Tour: The Very Antithesis of a Mechanism [Spoilers]
“Not wanting to build a mere clocklike mechanism, you inadvertently – in your own punctilious way – created that which was possible, logical and inevitable, that which became the very antithesis of a mechanism …” “Please, no more!” – Stanislaw Lem, The Cyberiad Three stories. “The universe is infinite yet bounded.” So begins the Seventh…