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| Dec 23, 2022 | » | Doom Patrol (1987 - 1995)
13 min; updated Jan 28, 2024
body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/doom-patrol-1987.jpg'); } Doom Patrol (1987-1995). Grant Morrison; Richard Case; John Nyberg. www.dcuniverseinfinite.com . www.hoopladigital.com . 1987. Accessed Dec 23, 2022. Punchlines Father McGarry has long since ceased to believe in miracles. Saturdays, he trudges out to the dump, looking for God among the debris. Saturdays are always the longest days and, in the winter, chilly. He asks for very little.... |
| Oct 25, 2021 | » | Stories of Your Life and Others
14 min; updated Jul 30, 2023
Stories of Your Life and Others. Ted Chiang. 2010. ISBN: 9781931520898 . Tower of Babylon #religious-fiction #divine-retribution-motif Story focused on Hillalum, who lived during the construction of the Tower of Babel . notes that the Hebrew school version was more elaborate than the Old Testament account, e.g. the tower is so tall that it takes a year to climb, and when a man falls to his death, no one mourns, but when a brick is dropped, the brick-layers weep because it will take a year to replace.... |
| Apr 10, 2022 | » | Snow, Glass, Apples
3 min; updated Jul 29, 2023
body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/gaiman-snow-glass-apples.jpg'); } Snow, Glass, Apples Stumbled onto from Hoopla’s recommendations. flips the script and tells the story from the step mother’s perspective, and she is also the protagonist. Snow White is a vampire. She fed on her father (consensually?), the King, to the point of him being a shadow of a man. Her stepmother, the Queen, was only 18 when the King died.... |