Agent of Weird: Exploring the Write Fantastic

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Evolve or Die: Is this the End for Sword and Sorcery?
Can the genre ever move on from Robert E. Howard's Conan? How can writers possibly innovate within this narrow fantasy subgenre? Is the sword and…
Jun 5, 2024 • 
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Mapping the Labyrinth: A No-Mucking-About Beginner’s Guide to Starting Out as a Writer
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a young person in possession of a desire to write, must be in want of advice from an old fart
Jun 14, 2024 • 
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Fantastic Beasts and How to Write Them
Some Jurassic examples of great monster-writing
Jan 28 • 
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Fantastic Beasts and How to Write Them
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What Hawk the Slayer Got Right
Defending a sword and sorcery kinda-classic
Oct 25, 2024 • 
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What Hawk the Slayer Got Right
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Lessons From Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin’s 'A Wizard of Earthsea' is a classic, no question. But does anyone still care? Writers and creators of fantasy, neglect this book at…
Jul 24, 2024 • 
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28 Days Later (2002) vs. 28 Weeks Later (2007)
The first two in the ‘28’ trilogy predicted the future and made ‘zombies’ scary again. But the movies’ terrors are more subtle than you think
May 19 • 
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How to Write a ‘Mission Briefing’ Scene That Doesn’t Suck
James Cameron’s Aliens (1986) shows us how it’s done
Nov 4, 2022 • 
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How to Write a ‘Mission Briefing’ Scene That Doesn’t Suck
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The Five Types of Twist Ending
Deliver a sting in your tale
Jul 12, 2023 • 
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Review: Watership Down (Martin Rosen, 1978)
Remembered as the kids' movie that terrified a generation, this classic British fantasy still casts a deep, dark and enthralling spell
Nov 11, 2024 • 
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Review: Watership Down (Martin Rosen, 1978)
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Who Goes There? (1938) vs The Thing (1982)
John W. Campbell's classic novella of Golden Age science fiction and John Carpenter's modern horror masterpiece - both absorb new meanings in the age of…
Mar 26 • 
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Who Goes There? (1938) vs The Thing (1982)
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Review: The Green Knight (David Lowery, 2021)
This hallucinatory yuletide fantasy baffled audiences on release, yet remains one of the greatest films in Arthurian cinema. And, yes, it’s a Christmas…
Dec 13, 2024 • 
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Review: The Green Knight (David Lowery, 2021)
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Science Fiction Double Feature: The Crow (comic book vs. movie)
The 1989 comic by James O'Barr and the 1994 movie starring Brandon Lee share the same melancholy heart, though it beats in very different ways
Sep 18, 2024 • 
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