Tag Archives: Schimanski

Into the Heart of the Ruhrgebiet: Cora’s Adventures at the 2024 Toyplosion in Castrop-Rauxel, Part 1: The Trip Out and City Views

Posted on September 18, 2024 by Cora

I had a big translation job to finish (unfortunately, I do have to earn a living), so I still haven’t gotten around to writing up my adventures at the 2024 Worldcon in Glasgow, Scotland, and the 2024 Eurocon in Rotterdam, … Continue reading →

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Cozy Space Opera, Cozy Mysteries and the Domestic Sphere

Posted on August 31, 2018 by Cora

At Strange Horizons, Joyce Chng hosts a round-table about domestic space opera, featuring Ann Leckie, Jennifer Foehner Wells, Judith Tarr and Foz Meadows. It’s a great discussion and I urge everyone to read it. Now domestic space opera is a … Continue reading →

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The Darth Vader Parenthood Award for Outstandingly Horrible Fictional Parents

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Cora

Last week, I came across a Tor.com post by Emily Asher-Perrin, in which she claimed that we can safely say that Sarek of Vulcan is science fiction’s worst dad. Both the headline and the post left me baffled, for while … Continue reading →

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More Griping about Star Trek Discovery and Some Surprising Parallels to Raumpatrouille Orion

Posted on October 23, 2017 by Cora

Yeah, to a certain degree another post about Star Trek Discovery. For previous installments in the loose series “Let me tell you of all the ways in which Star Trek Discovery sucks”, see here, here and here. Interestingly, by now … Continue reading →

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Rest in Peace Götz George a.k.a. Horst Schimanski

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Cora

I was planning to blog about the slyly subversive content of Independence Day today, in response to an article about the movie I vehemently disagreed with. However, then I saw on Twitter that German actor Götz George had died aged … Continue reading →

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