Tag Archives: James Bond

The 2021 Jonathan and Martha Kent Fictional Parent of the Year Award

Posted on December 30, 2021 by Cora

While I have been awarding the Darth Vader Parenthood Award for Outstandingly Horrible Fictional Parents for 41 years now, the Jonathan and Martha Kent Fictional Parent of the Year Award is a new prize that I only introduced last year … Continue reading →

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Of Spies, Linguists and Hugos

Posted on May 19, 2021 by Cora

Okay, so this is another link post, but I promise that regular blogging will resume soon. First of all, I was over at Galactic Journey again, where I review Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany and also go into the linguistic … Continue reading →

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Time Travel, Bond Rip-offs and the Fashion for Folksy Rural Themes in the 1960s

Posted on October 19, 2019 by Cora

Blogging has been light over here for the past two weeks or so, but today I am over at Galactic Journey again, where I review the post-apocalyptic novel Davy by Edgar Pangborn in a double post together with Victoria Silverwolf, … Continue reading →

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More than just a Bond Girl – Remembering Karin Dor

Posted on November 9, 2017 by Cora

German actress Karin Dor died Monday aged 79. Most international obituaries, such as they are, mainly focus on her turn as a Bond villainess in the 1967 James Bond movie You Only Live Twice and on her appearance in Alfred … Continue reading →

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Romance Bashing: The New York Times Edition

Posted on September 30, 2017 by Cora

The New York Times now has a review round-up column for new romance novels, just as it already has one for crime fiction and one for science fiction and fantasy. This is a good thing. However, while the SFF column … Continue reading →

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Rest in Peace, Roger Moore

Posted on May 24, 2017 by Cora

Actor Roger Moore died yesterday, aged 89. There’s also a lovely tribute by Peter Bradshaw at the Guardian. I heard the news on the radio, while driving home after a grocery haul. “And now we have some tragic news from … Continue reading →

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J.G. Ballard, High-Rise and Brutalist architecture as instant dystopias

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Cora

In the past few weeks, there has been a flurry of articles and posts about J.G. Ballard’s 1975 novel High-Rise, inspired by Ben Wheatley’s film adaptation, starring Tom Hiddleston, which opens in the UK this week, following a sort of … Continue reading →

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Rest in Peace, Sir Ken Adam

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Cora

On Friday, one of my personal heroes, Sir Ken Adam, died aged 95. Even if you’ve never heard the name Ken Adam, you’ll probably recognise his work when you see it, for Ken Adam determined our ideas of what a … Continue reading →

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Edgar Wallace – the forgotten crime writer?

Posted on August 6, 2015 by Cora

The Guardian has a review of a new biography of British crime and thriller writer Edgar Wallace. My first reaction upon reading the article – beyond heading to Amazon to check out whether the biography was available and how much … Continue reading →

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Too Many Deaths – Sir Christopher Lee, Wolfgang Jeschke, James Last and a couple of others

Posted on June 12, 2015 by Cora

We only just lost Pierre Brice, but it seems the universe is conspiring to take away even more of our best and brightest, because the wave of deaths of much beloved celebrities continues unabated. The most discussed death today is … Continue reading →

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